Cottonwood Environmental Law Center

Bozeman will be the first city in Montana to ban plastic bags.

After a lawsuit and speedy settlement, a plastic bag ban will appear on the ballot for Bozeman voters.

Paper or plastic may no longer be the question at the grocery store. A local group is working to put a single-use plastic regulation on the ballot in Bozeman and Missoula.

As more than 20 fires burn in Montana, a debate over how to manage forests to prepare for burns flared up in a Bozeman City Commission meeting Tuesday night. Commissioners narrowly passed a measure to support a controversial logging project.

A federal appeals court this week revived a lawsuit filed by an environmental law firm that challenges the state of Montana and the federal government’s…