Montana

Despite all of the snow and cold snaps across the Mountain West, many cities are experiencing fewer nights at or below 32 degrees due to climate change. It’s a warming trend that has a wide range of impacts.

Cooke City is a small mountain town in the southwest corner of Montana that is known for being the snowiest town in the state and is also a gateway town to Yellowstone National Park. In the winter, there is only one driving road into the town from the west, because to the east is a nine mile stretch of highway that is not plowed. That nine miles has created a lot of controversy amongst locals.

A Montana judge restored wolf hunting regulations statewide Tuesday two weeks after temporarily restricting wolf hunting and trapping, especially in areas surrounding Yellowstone and Glacier national parks.

The Colorado School of Mines and Red Rocks Community College are offering the energy assessments through the Rocky Mountain Industrial Assessment Center, which was funded last year as part of a $60 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy.

A new report evaluates the business climate for LGBTQ+ people in every state, and most of the Mountain West ranks on the low end.

After an Associated Press article reported that hunters have killed 20 Yellowstone National Park wolves that wandered from the park's boundary this season, environmental organizations are calling on the federal government to relist gray wolves in the northern Rockies on an emergency basis.

Yellowstone National Park announced earlier on Monday, September 27, that three wolves from the famous Junction Butte Pack were killed during the first week of Montana's wolf hunting season.

Wildlife advocacy groups are asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore Endangered Species Act protections for Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolves.

Conservation groups are sending letters to Congress as well as several federal agencies, asking for better coordinated federal action for grizzly bear…

State legislatures in Montana and Idaho have recently passed policies that increase the number of wolves that can be harvested, and methods to…