The Latest Breaking News from Montana

NONFICTION: Ben McGrath reads the water to write about a modern-day American voyageur who paddled the rivers from Montana to the Atlantic Ocean.

A federal appeals court says U.S. officials improperly downplayed the climate change effects from burning coal when they approved a large expansion at an underground Montana mine that would release an estimated 190 million tons of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere

Eighteen states all over the physical and political map, including California, Arizona, Virginia, Michigan, Montana, Illinois, Oregon, Nevada, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, now permit the recreational use of cannabis, opting to regulate and collect taxes from adult use of the substance rather than continue to treat it as…

U.S. officials have approved a conservation group’s proposal to expand bison grazing on prairies in Montana amid objections from some ranchers and elected officials