Duncan Adams

Six northbound hikers left Anaconda Tuesday morning on a final leg of the Continental Divide Trail. They are, from left: Melanie "Poppi" Matta; Dave "La Bamba" Heil; Ben "Zinger" Penatzer;

Silver Bow Mining announced Wednesday that its contractor has completed the rehabilitation of the historic Chief Joseph Portal, providing access for underground mineral exploration north of Walkerville.

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to expand the scope of the Roosters for Recruitment Pheasant Releases Program beyond state lands to include federal and private lands.

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality recently proposed adding an impairment designation for algal blooms in the Big Hole River. Critics allege DEQ's proposal does not adequately target nutrients pollution.

The incident management team's morning update on the Sand Creek and Bobcat Lakes fires describe plans to brave hazard trees to build handline for the Sand Creek fire.

Chris Edgington, Jefferson Watershed Project Manager for Montana Trout Unlimited, talks August 20 about a project that will reconnect the full flow of Alder Creek, which was diverted many years

Silver Bow Mining announced Monday it has entered into an agreement to purchase the bankrupt Montana Tunnels mine near Jefferson City, with intentions of processing ore there and maybe mining.

Caleb Uerling, a fisheries biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, inherited a tough territory in the Upper Clark Fork River in 2019, and observers say his tenure was valuable.

Montana is home to the last population of native Arctic grayling in the lower 48 states.

The long-in-limbo Montana Tunnels open pit mine and ore processing complex in Jefferson County in Montana appears to be on the cusp of possible resurrection.