Montana battles a deadly fentanyl crisis as grieving families demand action, police adapt roles, and the governor invests $300M in solutions.

MISSOULA, Mont. — Hundreds of competitors from around the world will descend on Butte forthe Intercollegiate/International Mining Competition at Montana ...

It would dwarf the Berkeley Pit: A hole blasted and dug into the Alaskan landscape about a half-mile deep and 2.5 miles across. What could go wrong in the pursuit of what's touted as the largest known ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Earlier this month, mining company Montana Resources discovered that a fire hydrant hooked up to ...

BUTTE Montana Resources said Monday it will reopen its idled copper mine here and rehire as many as 350 workers by fall. The decision came just days after a state board approved a $2 million loan to ...

Butte residents want health professionals to look at the effects of dust from the Montana Resources open pit mine, heavy metals and other factors that could cause health problems. Those are among the ...

Montana’s highest court upheld the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation permit for the Black Butte Copper Mine. Now the project can proceed as planned. Montana Trout Unlimited, one of the ...

BUTTE, Mont. – Paige Layne was several weeks into her new job as a security guard – standing watch outside the civic center in her hometown of Butte, Montana – when she found out exactly what it was ...

Several thousand migrating snow geese perished in the toxic Berkeley Pit water where they landed last week, mine officials said Tuesday. Montana Resources and Atlantic Richfield Company officials say ...

BUTTE - Irish author Kevin Barry’s latest novel The Heart in Winter is set here in Butte where he did research for this novel more than 25 years ago at the Butte Public Archives. He since returned and ...