A shimmer of summer came to light Thursday after the Montana State Parks Department announced that permit applications to float the Smith River will become available on Jan. 2. Permits are needed to ...

Johnson cautions against focusing on pipes, pumps and ditches without also considering how irrigation systems benefit people, ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is asking for public input on several new proposals and environmental assessments, including ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks announced Wednesday the reopening to fishing of a stretch of the Big Hole between the river's ...

A white-tailed deer walks along McDonald Creek in Glacier National Park. (Courtesy NPS) Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials suspect a hemorrhagic disease is the culprit behind several dozen ...

In August, the commission approved 22 leases that totaled 60,737 acres that are expected to be finalized by the end of the ...

One man near Malta said he’d found 60 dead deer in the past month and another said he could hardly go outside because of the ...

The town of Mars Hill joined with local partners to celebrate the additions, including an amphitheater, parking improvements ...

Folks familiar with the Middle Fork of the Judith River compare it to a miniature Smith River, the famously scenic — and famously protected — tributary of the Missouri on ...

A 300-pound male black bear estimated to be 12 years old was the first captured in southeastern Montana this summer by a Fish, Wildlife & Parks crew, the agency reported on its Facebook page. The bear ...

Content warning: This story discusses suicide. Granger Smith‘s wife Amber Smith is remembering a difficult time in their lives. Six years after their 3-year-old son River died in a drowning accident, ...

Two orphaned black bear cubs are now calling Cincinnati home. According to the Cincinnati Zoo, the two cubs have arrived in the Queen City after they were deemed unreleasable by Montana Fish, Wildlife ...