The federal shutdown that started Oct. 1 left large swaths of public land accessible but unstaffed as Congress fought over the 2026 budget. That temporary situation could become the new normal, ...

The future of a land-use plan for tens of millions of acres of public land in eastern Montana is in doubt. The U.S. House of ...

Land managers with the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) are preparing to conduct fall ...

A Navajo tribe-owned company has bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana ...

Opinion: LWCF is about more than land and water. It’s about families fishing together, kids playing ball under the lights, ...

A pivot irrigation system watering crops (Photo by Getty Images). A water-rights dispute that has drawn the attention of all three branches of Montana government threatens to hurt Montana’s largest ...

A proposal to put nearly 33,000 acres of working forestland in northwest Montana into a conservation easement has cleared its last major hurdle. In a 3-1 vote on Monday, the Montana Land Board adopted ...

Officials are eying a spot in Laurel for a possible state mental hospital, though the plan is in its early stages and no ...

Environmental groups are sounding the alarm over changes made to the federal government’s largest conservation and recreation fund. The changes to the Land and Water Conservation Fund put up new ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — This article is part of a three-part collaborative series produced by the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, ICT and Montana Free Press, and utilizes data obtained through the national news ...

The snowmaking operation on Spanish Peaks Mountain Club property will make Big Sky the first public ski area in Montana to ...