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Report: 6 million acres of state lands in West inaccessible

BILLINGS, Mont. – More than 6 million acres of state property scattered across 11 states in the U.S. West are landlocked by private property and largely inaccessible to hunters, anglers and ...

DATE: Aug 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Interior Secretary aims to protect public land access

BILLINGS, Mont. – Acting U.S. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt ordered federal land managers on Thursday to give greater priority to access for hunting, fishing and other kinds of recreati...

DATE: Mar 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. eases land restrictions meant to protect bird in West

Opponents expected to fight move to help greater sage grouse thrive

DATE: Mar 15, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

50 million gallons of polluted water pours daily from U.S. mine sites

RIMINI, Mont. – Every day many millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flow from some of the most contaminated mining sites in the U.S. and into surroun...

DATE: Feb 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Ryan Zinke defends legacy as he leaves office

Former Interior secretary faces ethics investigations

DATE: Jan 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

States ask court to stop Trump from reviving U.S. coal sales

BILLINGS, Mont. – Four states that say burning coal will hurt their residents as it makes climate change worse are trying to stop the Trump administration in federal court from selling vast ...

DATE: Dec 12, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. to ease oil drilling controls protecting imperiled greater sage grouse

BILLINGS, Mont. – The Trump administration moved forward Thursday with plans to ease restrictions on oil and natural gas drilling, mining and other activities that were put in place to prote...

DATE: Dec 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Zinke ‘100 percent confident’ he’ll be cleared in probes

Democrats in House plan to launch a new investigation in January

DATE: Nov 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Wildfires reshape landscape of the U.S. West

Development, climate change fuel conditions

DATE: Sep 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Glacier latest U.S. park to be scorched by Western wildfires

A wildfire destroyed structures and forced evacuations Monday from the busiest area of Montana’s Glacier National Park, as officials in California prepared to reopen Yosemite National Park a...

DATE: Aug 13, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

U.S. wildlife boss departs after stirring fears on species law

BILLINGS, Mont. – The head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is stepping down after a 14-month tenure in which the agency proposed broad changes to rules governing protections for thousa...

DATE: Aug 10, 2018 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Conservationists say U.S. energy panel stacked with industry supporters

BILLINGS, Mont. – Conservationists claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday that a Trump administration committee reviewing royalties paid by companies on fossil fuels extracted from public lands ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2018 | CATEGORY: Nation & World