This year marks a milestone in the American West

From Butte to the Bakken, Montana has a rich history of boomtowns

The Flood of 1964 reigns as one of the worst natural disasters to ever strike the Treasure State

Wildfire and Montana have been intertwined for centuries

Region held immense promise while facing an uncertain future, while much of it remained a wild and untrammeled landscape

Two of the nation’s first national parks, Yellowstone and Glacier, helped shape a new American ideal for preserving certain priceless places

Thanks to advocates like Kalispell’s Emma Ingalls, Montana became one of the first states to give women the right to vote on Nov. 3, 1914

Montana’s territorial year marked the beginning of American Indians ceding sacred lands

No injuries reported, though house sustains $25,000 worth of damage

They join Colorado and Washington state, where voters approved the recreational use of marijuana two years ago

$51.50-per-share price for nearly 6.77 million shares of stock being sold to help finance the purchase of 11 dams

Councilor says Libby mayor broke the law when he held a closed executive session

Whitefish's Ryan Zinke wins U.S. House race; Mitchell defeats Schnebel in Flathead commission race

Mitchell takes about 67 percent of the vote to Democrat Stacey Schnebel's 33 percent

After years of a sluggish economic recovery and foreign crises aplenty, the voters' mood was sour