Neither snow nor rain nor heat” may be part of the unofficial postal service motto, but it also applies to those who deliver Meals on Wheels here in Montana.

The volunteer drivers with Meals on Wheels are out delivering no matter the weather. And that has been a challenge lately in Billings, with multiple inches of accumulated snowfall and subzero temperatures

Kenneth Peterson, one of the volunteer drivers, got stuck last Friday, Mar.1,  making a delivery. 

Coal power plants in Wyoming and Montana are among those contaminating groundwater, as are most all coal plants, according to a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project and Earthjustice.

On this episode of Field Days, Stillwater County sheep ranchers Henry and Sara Hollenbeck shear their bred ewes in below zero temperatures. 

The American National Cattlewomen call themselves a group with a passion for beef.  Also passionate about cattle and the work of ANCW is their newly elected president.

Wanda Pinnow, who runs a cow/calf operation, Brackett Butte Ranch, with her husband near Baker, MT, is also excited about the Cattlewomen’s new WIRED program, or Women In Ranching Education and Development. It is a two day symposium on the basics of livestock and the day-to-day operation of a ranch.

The Montana legislature tabled a bill Tuesday that would have implemented country-of-origin-labeling on beef and pork.           

The Fork Peck Indian Reservation in northeast Montana recently received five male bison from Corwin Springs, MT, just outside Yellowstone Park.

The bull bison are part of a program through the state and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service to help clear bison of brucellosis, which can cause infertility and abortions in livestock, and protect existing populations.

Snow and bitterly cold temperatures have their icy grip on Montana, making for sleepless nights and extra worry for ranchers in the midst of calving.

This subzero weather put stress on the cow, the calf and the rancher. Just ask Wanda Pinnow.  

She and her husband Craig have a cow/calf operation, Brackett Butte Ranch a third generation ranch, near Baker. Temperatures Sunday night were expected to dip to -14 degrees with a wind chill of -30 degrees to -40 degrees.

That meant checking on their cows every 90 minutes—the makings of a very long night.

The Yellowstone Art Museum’s artist-in-residence, Ben Pease, who’s Crow and Northern Cheyenne, strives to make people question what they see in his art.