Glacier National Park

Federal agencies are figuring out how to treat masks on public land in the wake of Gov. Greg Gianforte’s repeal of Montana’s statewide mask mandate....

Glacier National Park is considering a visitor reservation system to handle park congestion amid the coronavirus pandemic. Park officials are also...

Heavy snowfall combined with wind has prompted several avalanche warnings around Montana.

Montana’s economic performance in 2020 will go down as the worst in its post war history, but economists say a flood of federal relief dollars have largely buoyed incomes and the state’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bureau of Business and Economic Research at the University of Montana held its annual economic outlook seminar this week and told the story of Montana’s industries.

Final numbers show 2020 was the busiest year at Montana state parks with more than 3.4 million visitors. That’s a 30 percent increase over the previous year. National parks saw fewer visitors overall but upticks at the end of the year.

After two record-breaking years of grizzly bear deaths in Northwest Montana, bear mortalities have dropped back down.

Over 125,000 visitors entered Glacier National Park in October. Park officials say that’s a 60 percent increase in visitation numbers over the same time...

Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana is one of the most-visited parks in the country. But this summer, the Blackfeet Nation made the...

A research group at the University of Montana this week released its latest survey results looking at the coronavirus pandemic’s effects on travel-related businesses in Montana. Industry members, which helped pull in nearly $3.8 billion in visitor spending last year, are feeling both the highs and lows of the pandemic's economic impacts.

Laura Stutzman had no doubts that this year’s Twin Falls County Fair should go on despite the pandemic still raging across the U.S. — and several outbreaks tied to such community fairs.