Some 621 miles of harsh terrain in the saddle for six to 10 days. Vast temperature swings from morning frost to the fiery furnace of the unbridled August sun. Isolation.

Two additional boys told jurors Wednesday that Jami James sexually assaulted them when he was their youth hockey coach, describing the same acts that another boy testified about this week.

A class-action lawsuit was filed Monday in Butte-Silver Bow District Court against Montana Resources, the sprawling copper and molybdenum mine in Butte.

The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board met on Tuesday night this week and voted to recommend the city approve a Spokane developer's plan for a 671-home subdivision called Paisley Park.

The Independent Record has partnered with Benefis to honor a Helena area boys and girls high school athlete of the week each week throughout the 2025-26 high school sports season.

The Montana Board of Pardons and Parole has denied parole to several prison inmates, including a Lincoln man convicted of fatally shooting a man during a drunken argument and a Billings man convicted ...

HELENA - The state Board of Medical Examiners has suspended the license of a former White Sulphur Springs physician after four complaints were filed against him.

GREAT FALLS — The 21-year-old son of a Browning man who killed his mother last year has reached a plea agreement on a charge that he helped hide his grandmother's body.

HELENA - Montana's public schools Tuesday suffered the first major loss in their five-year-old court case challenging state funding as inadequate, as a state judge declined to order any form of ...

HELENA - Gold mining may soon begin in central Jefferson County, after an announcement this week that the owners of a permitted mine near the ghost town of Elkhorn had received financing to move the ...

In a move that shocked both defense and prosecuting attorneys, a Ravalli County District Court judge on Thursday refused to accept a plea agreement that would have sent a murderer to prison for life ...

CORVALLIS - After 18 years of patrolling the Bitterroot River every summer, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks warden Douglas Johnson thought he knew that waterway like the back of his hand.