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

Facing a $23.4 million price tag for a recreation easement that would preclude private development and preserve public access on 600 acres of Montana school trust land at the head of Whitefish Lake, local stakeholders are left wondering: What’s it worth to save Smith Lake?

The small plane crashed Saturday morning off the runway at Ryan Field, southeast of West Glacier

The rulemaking petition 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

Cyrus Western assured community leaders that the Columbia Falls Aluminum Company property and other Superfund sites in the "Mountains and Plains" region he now oversees would be protected even as the Trump administration fires thousands of EPA employees and fundamentally reshapes the agency’s mission

A new conservation easement with the Flathead Land Trust will protect 40 acres northeast of Bigfork, connecting a corridor from Swan Hill to the Swan River

A spate of recent bear encounters underscore the state agency’s new messaging approach when reporting encounters between humans and grizzly bears, including online tools to promote awareness

The five-day event is a summer staple in the Flathead Valley, featuring dressage, cross-country, and show jumping while attracting Olympic-level riders from across the country

After an angler hooked a brown trout upstream of Pressentine Bridge last month, officials are trying to determine how the nonnative species ended up in a river system, as well as the extent of its invasion

Critics of the decades-old policy restricting road construction and timber harvests in inventoried roadless areas say its repeal removes obstacles for local forest managers. But conservation advocates and former forest planners say the rule’s dissolution is more complicated.

Brian Astle, 42, of Provo, Utah, fell to his death Wednesday while scaling the prominent summit along the Garden Wall north of Logan Pass

The agency completed its review of an easement on 53,000 acres of private timberland in Flathead and Lincoln counties, preserving public access and timber production. The project now requires approval by the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission.