After the U.S. Forest Service unveiled a proposal last month to give Montana’s lumber industry a “predictable” timber supply from three national forests, questions about the agency’s plan to incorporate an 82-year-old law into a modern forest-management framework abounded.

Broadly speaking, the

As far as the general public was aware, the only interesting questions in the primary election for the state’s Western Congressional District, MT-01, were going to be on the Democratic ballot, where four contenders were competing for a chance to try to unseat Ryan Zinke, whose incumbency seemed increasingly safe after fending off challenges by growing margins in two pre...

For more than two months, Roberto Orozco-Ramirez’s family has been waiting for news of the legal fate of their father, a Froid, Montana, auto mechanic who was arrested by Border Patrol in late January. The federal government charge...

This article contains descriptions of sexual abuse of a minor.

A Helena middle school educator pleaded not guilty Tuesday morning to allegations that he sexually abused a 12-year-old student.  

James Michael Huber, who works at C. R. Anderson Middle School, was charged last month with seven felony counts. District Court Judge...

The Montana Board of Regents Tuesday selected Jeremiah Shinn to be the 20th president of the University of Montana.

Shinn, the interim president of Boise State University, was the only named finalist for the role vacated by Seth Bodnar in February. The Montana Commissioner of Higher Education and a presidential search committee, including the commissioner, a forme...