More people recreating outdoors means more chances for wildlife encounters.

A letter sent to lawmakers, media outlets and others last week from two members of the Montana Public Service Commission cites a “probable lack of energy leading to ‘rolling blackouts’ in eastern Montana this summer" as one reason for state leaders to back the Colstrip coal-fired power plant.

State health officials Friday announced the first confirmed case of monkeypox in Montana. The case was found in Flathead County.

Fire crews from several agencies and air resources are making progress on a nearly 1,300-acre fire in Treasure County in southeast Montana.

Yellowstone visitation is down 40% after historic floods washed out roads. One neighboring town is struggling to survive, so park officials have opened a temporary road to try to help.

Gov. Greg Gianforte said in a news release he and the Montana Department of Environmental Quality worked with the Montana League of Cities and Towns on a simpler construction permitting process. They created a template contract to have city governments review public water supply plans for building projects.

Grier Stanley Barnwell was 28 weeks pregnant when she gave birth to her daughter, who spent 100 days in the neonatal intensive care unit. The couple delayed their wedding twice while she was treated.

NPR's A Martínez talks to NASA scientist Armin Kleinboehl about the space agency's Cloudspotting on Mars project, which asks for the public's help identifying Martian clouds.

Olivia Newton-John was one of the biggest pop stars in the 1970s and early 1980s. In the movie musical Grease, she starred as good girl Sandy Olson, who falls for a bad boy played by John Travolta.

When the Taliban took power nearly a year ago, many Afghan women found their rights had changed — as well as their status among male co-workers. How work has changed for women in Afghanistan.

The Muslim community in Albuquerque is reeling after three South Asian Muslim men were shot and killed there in the last two weeks. The killings come after a similar homicide last November.