environment

California lawmakers will go back to work in a special session in December to discuss levying a windfall tax on oil companies as residents are again paying record prices for gasoline.

Many of Missoula’s Democratic candidates for the Legislature support having biologists, not politicians, make state wildlife decisions and improving hunter-landowner relations, based upon responses provided during a public conservation forum. The responses of Republican candidates are unknown because they didn’t show up.

When Hard Rock International announced last month it was buying the rights to operate the Mirage from MGM Resorts International, the news release said the new owner would erect a giant guitar on the Las Vegas Strip, but made no mention of what would become of the dolphins, tigers, lions and leopards in captivity in the Mirage’s Secret Garden.

Sarah Lundquist writes, "Rather than primarily emphasizing personal actions and getting stuck on all the ways I have failed the climate, I now talk much more about a larger vision for our community and world."

Three West Coast governors and a Canadian premier signed a pact to make the region the first on the continent to transition to 100% clean electricity and a low-carbon economy.

After discussing the details earlier this week, Missoula County on Thursday made official its letter to the Flathead National Forest, lending its voice to the agency's scoping process around a proposal to expand Holland Lake lodge.

The state of Florida has requested that a team of Missoula city and county emergency responders prolong their stay to continue helping in the recovery of Hurricane Ian.

Sagebrush rangelands have supported cultures and wildlife in the arid West for millennia, yet today, those same ranges of grassland are echoes of what they were.

A federal judge has halted a large coal mining project that would be used to keep the coal-fired Colstrip plant in Rosebud operational, saying the Federal Office of Surface Mining had approved the expansion without considering the impact to the environment and the Yellowstone River.

Invasive plant species are being removed along Buffalo Street in Butte to make way for the planting of 1,000 native plant seedlings.