In Montana’s Bob Marshall Wilderness, a team of cavers reaches new depths in Tears of the Turtle, the nation’s deepest known limestone cave. How much lower does it go?

The region’s combined easement acreage totals 226,300 acres; meetings will only focus on existing conservation easements and not proposed easements, such as the Montana Great Outdoors project.

In its 10th year, the annual fundraising campaign supported 80 Flathead Valley nonprofit organizations with record-breaking matching grants

With broad public support and the endorsement of Gov. Greg Gianforte, the Montana Land Board's 3-2 vote gave conditional approval to a nearly 33,000-acre conservation easement on working forests between Kalispell and Libby; however, board members sought clarity over litigation involving private mineral rights

New year-to-date data shows the park exceeded 3 million visitors through September, ushering 602,339 people through the park’s entrances last month for the busiest September on record

Citing hazardous ice conditions and winter weather, Glacier National Park officials on Thursday morning temporarily closed the alpine highway to motorists between Avalanche Creek and Jackson Glacier Overlook

Land and wildlife managers, timber companies, hunters, and conservationists have stitched together a checkerboard of vulnerable working forests, using easements to protect private timberland from development. With a critical piece of the puzzle coming up for final land board approval, advocates say a new model of forest management is taking shape.

City, business and marketing leaders on Oct. 16 will review tourism trends from this past summer and forecasts for the coming winter, as well as solicit feedback from community members

Amy Regier, a registered nurse and incumbent Republican legislator seeking her third term, faces a challenge from Democrat Velvet Phillips-Sullivan, a reflexologist and aromatherapist from Whitefish

Leaders of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes pressed federal regulators to conduct further tribal engagement and a more thorough assessment of the contaminated Columbia Falls Aluminum Company site

Tom Bansak of the Flathead Lake Biological Station will co-chair the study board to investigate Canadian coal mining pollution on Montana’s international boundary

Montana's above-average winter wheat and hay harvests were a bright spot for Flathead Valley farmers growing more reliant on landowners to lease property for production as developers gobble up open space; plus, Market Metrics and Financial Corner

Whether it's misprinting names, party affiliations, voting districts — or, in Montana’s case, delisting a candidate because of a computer glitch — ballot blunders can and do occur during every election cycle

The trail will reopen once park rangers patrolling the area can determine that the bear — likely a grizzly — who bit a 35-year-old Washington man is no longer in the area

Participants will have the opportunity to count migrating raptors past Mount Brown on Oct. 5 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. near Lake McDonald Lodge