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The spill is atop Florida Mesa, hundreds of feet above the Animas River. Detectors are now finding benzene seepage in ...

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Disaffected Republicans and resurgent Democrats just took over the Montana Legislature and spent big on education and health care.

Nor are they proxies of the dire wolf,” the members of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Canid Specialist ...

The Bozeman location is meant to be an emergency shelter. Other local organizations provide housing for families and domestic ...

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Public lands must never be for sale — at any price.

Even as Oak Flat moves ahead, the mining industry commits to voluntary guidelines to consult with communities.

Around the Colville Reservation, nearly everyone has vivid memories of fire. The blazes’ names — Devil’s Elbow, North Star, Tunk Block, Summit Hill, Cold Springs and Chewah — are recalled and recited ...

Pay for presence’ aims to compensate ranchers for predator-related losses, but Western states might not be able to afford it.