Montana

The northern lights danced across the skies of Washington state and Montana over the weekend.

A man drove his pickup truck into a New York family as they walked in a tourist village bordering Glacier National Park and opened fire with a shotgun, killing a man and toddler.

Authorities say six people have died after a pileup Friday evening on Interstate 90 in Montana. Twenty-one vehicles crashed and Montana Highway Patrol Sgt. Jay Nelson said authorities believe the weather is to blame. He said it appears heavy winds caused a dust storm with zero visibility. While the highway patrol did not have an immediate count of the number...

Yellowstone National Park is reopening its flood-damaged north loop at noon on Saturday, in time for the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

Most of Yellowstone National Park should reopen within the next two weeks — much faster than originally expected.

With Yellowstone National Park pushing to re-open to tourists more quickly than anticipated after record floods pounded southern Montana, some of those hardest hit in the disaster live far from the famous park’s limelight and are leaning heavily on one another to pull their lives out of the mud. In the farming town of Fromberg, the Clarks Fork River flooded...

Montana’s governor was not in Montana — or in the U.S. at all — when punishing floods hit Yellowstone National Park and communities on its fringes this week. He was in Italy.

After the severe flooding, business owners in some of the gateway towns leading to Yellowstone National Park are trying to figure out how they’ll make ends meet without a steady stream of tourists.

The floods triggered Yellowstone National Park to close and caused damage in nearby Montana.

Startling video shows the moment a large waterfront house in Gardiner, Montana, collapsed into the Yellowstone River as the region was battered by historic floods.

A house in Gardiner, Mont., fell into the Yellowstone River as the area received heavy floods and mudslides.

Ryker Webb was found safe in an area inhabited by mountain lions and bears

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Ryker Webb was “in good spirits and apparently healthy, although hungry, thirsty, and cold.”

U.S. officials have approved a conservation group’s proposal to expand bison grazing on prairies in Montana amid objections from some ranchers and elected officials

A hiker in Montana has been killed in a suspected encounter with a grizzly bear north of Yellowstone National Park

Sixteen young people are accusing Montana in a lawsuit of infringing on their right to a clean and healthful environment with its heavy reliance on developing fossil fuels.

Montana wildlife commissioners are shutting down gray wolf hunting and trapping in areas bordering Yellowstone National Park amid criticism over 23 wolves being killed after roaming from the park in recent several months.

Grizzlies in the region have been protected as a threatened species since 1975 and were shielded from hunting for most of that time.

Gunslinger Gulch is an 1880s-era mining town that was salvaged from demolition and moved to Anaconda, Montana. Today this old ghost town serves as a bed and breakfast to travelers who want a taste of the Old West. NBCLX contributor Greg Bledsoe brings his Family Geography Project to Montana to meet Karen Broussard, who moved her family from Seattle to...