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Redefining the words “live” and “stock” is no way to justify excluding bison from federal livestock grazing lands, according to a U.S. District Court ruling.

A 29-page decision filed Friday gr...

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Missoula postal workers are raising concerns that plans to remove a letter-sorting machine from the city’s distribution center will slow mail delivery in western Montana.

Shawn Harding, president of American Postal Workers Union Local 113, told Montana Free Press this week that the union received a one-sentence notice from the post office management Aug. 24, stati...

Mode of travel makes a huge difference on a trip through Montana’s Deer Lodge Valley.

As you drive along Interstate 90 near the exit for Warm Springs, the east-side window view offers Silver Bow Creek meandering below a low berm. From the passenger seat of a Cessna 210 airplane, you see that berm conceals a toxic-waste treatment pond stretching three and a half mil...

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