With a new presenting sponsor and a distance for everyone, the two-day trail-running event’s 16th edition is on track for the biggest field yet. For organizers, it’s also an opportunity to grow the community's conservation roots.

Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials believe hemorrhagic disease is responsible for killing localized populations of deer in Plains, Eureka and Marion

Bill Hodge, a Flathead Valley public lands advocate who has led several environmental stewardship organizations, hopes to move the conservation conversation beyond “hyper partisan politics”

The entire length of the Two Medicine Road will close Oct. 1 for a culvert replacement

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s order narrowed the ways in which the Land and Water Conservation Fund can be spent, but omitted the provision that conservation groups had feared the most.

FVCC’s largest scholarship fundraiser takes place on Nov. 1 at Wachholz College Center on its Kalispell campus. Tickets go on sale Sept. 15.

Mountainous terrain and a strong north wind combined Thursday to create challenging fire behavior as crews attempt to secure a perimeter around the 5-acre Marry Ann Fire in the Flathead Valley

The petition from the board of commissioners in Lincoln County is the latest effort to undo safeguards protecting Lake Koocanusa from a mining contaminant called selenium, which is leaching out of B.C. coal mines and into the international watershed

The Montana delegates say they would oppose efforts to divert Land and Water Conservation Fund support away from acquisitions or otherwise limit public land access

The easement on 53,000 acres of private timberland in Flathead and Lincoln counties would preserve public access and timber production. The project received unanimous commissioner support and now requires approval by the land board.

The Fish and Wildlife Commission on Thursday blended recommendations from state wildlife managers with a legislative mandate to manage wolves at a “lower yet sustainable” population level. A majority of public comment opposed measures to reduce the statewide wolf population.

GOP leaders attending the Western Caucus Policy Summit on the shore of Lake McDonald on Wednesday were shuttled past throngs of demonstrators who oppose the Trump administration’s initiatives to reshape the National Park Service

Despite a 3.4% dip in visitors during the month of July, overall year-to-date visitation remains on pace to exceed last year, which was the park’s second-busiest on record

The nonprofit Climate Smart Glacier Country is piecing together a plan to improve local flood readiness and offset the increasing cost of insurance for homeowners — even after the Trump Administration terminated its primary funding source

The ruling against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service comes as western states, including Montana and Idaho, pursue more aggressive policies for hunting and trapping wolves, thereby undermining the species’ recovery