Laura Lundquist

The Rail Authority serves as an arm of the state that can advocate and raise funds for restoring the passenger rail and act as a liaison between state and federal agencies, corporations, and local governments.

Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks sent the equivalent of two permits to thousands of deer and elk hunters, thanks to a glitch in its new computer system. But it’s not the first problem the agency has had with issuing licenses this year.

After capitalizing on a two-day lapse in a federal mining ban at Montana’s beleaguered Zortman-Landusky mines in 2020, a small mining company appears to have been developing its claims without the authorization of the state environmental agency.

The Missoula Rural Fire Department is asking for any information on the people who were lighting fireworks or any camera footage of the vehicle that sped down Glen Eagle Way at about 10:40 p.m.

The Montana Land Board has put a possible acquisition of state land on hold, adding at least another month to the multi-year process of expanding a wildlife management area near Anaconda.

Another 60 square-miles of former Weyerhaeuser timberland halfway between Kalispell and Libby has been saved from development, thanks to a land trust and federal funding.

The gage on the Little Blackfoot River near Garrison would have shut down on April 30, but an arrangement was worked out to keep it active through the end of 2022.

Marshall Mountain has long been a Missoula destination for fun and recreation, and many Missoulians want to keep it that way. But can it be all things to all people, and can the city keep it from being loved to death, should it become public property?

Missoula County District Judge Leslie Halligan this week denied a diving association’s claim that it shouldn’t be included as a defendant in a lawsuit resulting from the November 2020 drowning death of Linnea Mills.

The mauling death of a bicyclist in Ovando last summer has prompted several safety recommendations to reduce the chances of another fatality. The limiting factor is whether people will follow the recommendations.