Age-old rumors of Northwest Montana rancher and entrepreneur Alfred J. Luciano having had close ties to the Mafia are being quashed in a new book by local historian Gary Montgomery. “The rumor that Al ...

Tammy Johnson shared this photo with MTN News; the photo was taken by Bruce Werring, and shows three grizzly bears.

On the surface, they were as different as two men can be. Wally spent most of his life in the physically demanding, socially isolating work of ranching. Pat spent most of his in the hurly-burly of ...

Cowboy poet Wallace “Wally” McRae of Colstrip died June 22 at the age of 89. McRae gained recognition in Montana — and across ...

The Rev. James Kelly baptized and married thousands of people, ministered to the ill at hospitals, and traveled the world. He became friends with an opera superstar and with a ...

He'll pack bear spray and a pistol along with a heaping helping of courage to traverse roads that can stretch hundreds of miles with nothing but nature and all its creatures to keep him company.

A search continued Monday for a man accused of directly spraying three people with bear spray, and exposing several others to it, at an Albertsons grocery store in Westminster only a day prior.

A judge told a Butte man ... he was fortunate to be alive and so were two Montana troopers he doused with bear spray ... that’s all I can say,” District Judge Frank Joseph told 29-year-old ...

The state’s wildlife agency reported in mid-April that a grizzly bear charged a man searching for shed antlers near Dupuyer. The bear charged at close range, according to a news release from Montana ...

Finding ways to coexist with grizzly bears in Montana 13:44. A man shot and killed a grizzly bear in Montana after the animal charged at him at close range, wildlife officials said Monday.. The ...

The man was searching for antlers on a brushy hillside near Dupuyer when he first saw the adult grizzly. As he left the area, the bear charged at him and the man shot and killed the bear, according to ...

The man was looking for animal antlers in north-central Montana when he saw the mama bear on a “brushy hillside." He said she charged him as he left.