Five months after a J.C. Penny store closed in Butte, retail trucks on, slowly.

The Crow tribe in the Powder River Basin has one coal mine on its reservation, but poverty among tribal members remains high. The tribe would like more mining.

Auction house plans to sell the bones of two fighting dinosaurs.

Railroads lured homesteaders to Montana with ads that made the dry plains look like lush English countryside. Banks offered easy money, the settlers loaded up with loans — and drought set in.

Check out our side-by-side comparison of these two booms and busts nearly a hundred years apart… make your own comparisons.

We've told you about the energy boom unfolding in the Northern plains states. Centered in North Dakota, the industry is quickly spilling over into Montana.

Ads remind voters of Rehberg's legal attacks on city, fire department

The private equity firm reaches out, especially to Montana environmentalists.