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Gold mining company courts local support for its plans near the Blackfoot River

LINCOLN — Company officials hoping to develop a gold and silver mine near the Blackfoot River have embarked on a charm offensive in the nearby town, aiming to overcome the industry's environmentally checkered history in the region. The Montana Department of Environmental Quality in March issued a draft environmental

'Epic Legends:' Montana women finish grueling trio of mountain bike races

After completing a bruising trio of international mountain bike races spanning 18 days and enough vertical feet to reach the summit of Mount Everest four times, a pair of Montana women recently joined an exclusive club as inductees into the “Epic Legends Hall of Fame.” For Livingston-area resident Kim

Awoken by Missoula's warm weather, ticks are out early this year

The early T-shirt weather in western Montana this year comes with some costs, including ticks and other bugs waking up weeks before normal. Runners, hikers and dog-walkers taking to the trails around Missoula have been attracting the parasitic hitchhikers in recent weeks, as much as a month before

Thousands in northwest Montana lose power as windstorm batters the state

A windstorm battered western Montana on Thursday morning, leaving more than 3,000 households and businesses without power in Flathead and Lincoln counties. As of Thursday afternoon, nearly 2,000 customers were without power in communities near Libby, according to the Flathead Electric Cooperative. Hundreds more were affected by outages

Montana-based challenge to Trump climate policies heads to appeals court

As they bring their latest Montana climate case before a federal appeals court, environmental attorneys are hoping to pull their challenge to federal climate policies out from the shadow cast by their failed attempt a decade earlier. Our Children’s Trust is one of the groups representing Livingston resident Eva

Guide to Held v. Montana: A landmark climate case

A landmark court case decided in 2023, known as Held v. Montana, has drastically reshaped how the state's policies attempt to address greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and the resulting impacts on the state's residents. What follows is a brief guide to the Held case and

Prosecutor's motion to strike filing containing AI language