Department of Nature Resources and Conservation

Following the Infrastructure Advisory Commission’s recommendations, Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Friday that he has dedicated $2 million toward addressing emergencies related to the recent floods.

State officials hope the roughly 12% immediate raise, which brings minimum base pay to $15.50, will help recruit and retain more wildland firefighters.

Fire experts say the potential for significant wildland fires west of the Divide is normal for now but will grow and spread into tinder-dry eastern Montana later this summer, according to the Northern Rockies fire season outlook released this week

Montana fire officials are grateful for this weekend’s cool, and in some cases, wet weather, but they say much more of it is needed to mitigate the...

Four newly established advisory commissions will make recommendations to Montana’s governor on how to spend more than $1.5 billion of federal pandemic relief funds.

Plans are in the works to permanently repair a major Montana Hi-Line water system that collapsed last month.The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation’s Milk River…

The governor’s Drought and Water Supply Advisory Committee almost cancelled its monthly meeting Thursday because there isn’t really a drought issue in…