Custer Gallatin National Forest

As wildfire season winds down, late summer and early fall prescribed burning is picking up throughout Montana.

Gov. Greg Gianforte signed an executive order Thursday extending the state’s bipartisan housing task force. The Custer Gallatin National Forest released the final decision Thursday for a burning, logging, and thinning project in eastern Montana. Two separate lawsuits against Montana’s TikTok ban have been consolidated into one legal proceeding.

Conservation groups are challenging a logging project near Yellowstone National Park. The groups say the project will harm threatened grizzly bears.

Avalanche forecasters across western Montana have issued avalanche warnings as a winter storm is forecasted to drop several inches of snow.

Recreationists and hunters are being encouraged to avoid the Line Creek Trail outside of Red Lodge after a hunter encountered a grizzly bear in the area over the weekend.

Update 5:30 p.m.Robertson Draw Fire and Crooked Creek FireFire crews continue to patrol the containment lines on the Robertson Draw and Crooked Creek…

The Robertson Draw Fire burning 24,273 acres south of Red Lodge has been identified as human caused, according to the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office. The…

The Flathead Avalanche Center announced Saturday that an avalanche in the Swan range killed one snowmobiler and partially buried three others.High…

The Custer Gallatin National Forest is moving forward with two out of three proposed land exchanges on the southern side of the Crazy Mountains.

As the Custer Gallatin National Forest finalizes a plan that will guide management decisions for the next 15 to 30 years, a coalition of conservation and outdoor user groups is making one last push for that plan to add additional protection to an area called Cowboy Heaven.