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Twelve cars of a BNSF coal train derailed early Friday near Anita , Montana, about 35 miles northeast of Billings.

Four weeks away from the counting of 2008 election ballots, and phones lines are burning.

Small, stooped, with a wry sense of humor, Winfield Emerson Page was one of the early stock market "day traders." Page was essentially nocturnal.

A federal judge has denied an independent candidate's request to have his name placed on the November ballot in Montana's U.S. Senate race.

Montana's general pheasant season opens Saturday and runs through Jan. 1, 2009, with varied outlooks for pheasants across the state.

U.S. District Court Judge Donald Molloy issued a scathing order Wednesday lambasting the Montana Republican Party for challenging the registrations of thousands of Montana voters, but he stopped short of an ...

No matter where NorthWestern Energy Corp. proposes building a major power line through southwest Montana, it's an unpopular sell to people whose homes and land it would pass by.

Growing up on a cattle ranch near Melrose and serving three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan didn't hurt Staff Sgt.

Montana gubernatorial candidates Republican Roy Brown, left, and incumbent Democrat Brian Schweitzer shake hands as they take the stage for a debate at Montana State University-Billings Tuesday, Oct.

Scientists have again found live trout in Silver Bow Creek, the waterway making a comeback after a century of contamination by mine waste.

Last week I posted on the Montana Republican party's efforts to disenfranchise 6,000 voters in six predominantly Democratic counties.

The state Democratic Party filed suit Monday to block Republican Party efforts to challenge the registration of more than 6,000 Montana voters, calling it an "illegal vote-suppression scheme" targeting likely ...

Over the years, there have been plenty of proverbial canaries in the coal mine who repeatedly warned about a looming economic crisis, a virtual perfect storm that would be equal parts over-consumption, ...

Cascade County was not among the six traditional Democratic counties blanketed by election challenges from the Republican Party.

The Montana Human Rights Commission has ruled in favor of a longtime Butte-Silver Bow employee who alleges age discrimination.

A state Republican Party official said Friday the party plans to expand its challenge of registered Montana voters who have changed their addresses, beyond the 6,000 voters challenged in six counties this week.

Montana's Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg joined 170 other House members Friday to vote against a $700 billion bailout of the nation's financial sector.

With their gubenatorial candidate lagging far behind Montana Republicans are throwing their own version of a hail Mary, taken right out of the Karl Rove playbook.

A judge ruled this week that the public has the right to get to rivers from county bridges, but also determined landowners can attach fences to bridges in a split decision on a 4-year-old case out of Madison ...

The U.S. Senate economic rescue plan approved by the Senate, 74-25, Wedneday night, includes Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus' provision to pump an estimated $111 million in new funding into Montana rural ...