Republican Sen. Jennifer Fielder spearheaded the effort to study and diminish federal land management

Proposed increases range from 22 percent to 34 percent over 2015's approved rates

Bison recently charged a 62-year-old Australian man and flung him into the air several times

Heightened focus comes in response to growing pleas from residents in the two states for more help in dealing with crime

Will Deschamps has been chairman since 2009

Man was allegedly strangling his wife, threatening to kill her and preventing her escape

Bear is in custody, will be relocated to the Flathead National Forest

He's closing his showroom on West Front Street after 22 years and some 255 First Fridays, by his estimate

Flathead product entering fourth and final year of NFL rookie contract

The Campaign for Accountability sent letters Monday to officials in Utah, Montana and Arizona asking them to investigate Utah Republican state Rep. Ken Ivory

Northwestern Energy's service territory covers about 73 percent of the land area in Montana

The plan will include watching over the progress of a compact that aims to settle water-use rights on the Flathead Indian Reservation

The agency proposes allowing the lifting of federal protections in the six recovery units individually when specific requirement are met

Colstrip will be controlled by the newly-created Talen Energy Corp., also of Pennsylvania

Montana became the fourth state to overhaul what activists call "policing for profit"