Dan Walsh

Mountain goat populations have been on the decline in Montana for 70 years. Researchers are working to learn more about the nimble climbers, which means going where the goats go – and that's easier said than done. But no mountain is too high, no weather too extreme to stop us from answering this week's question: What happened to the mountain goat population in the Bitterroot Mountains?

Montana is getting ready to green light the proposed expansion of a waste-holding pond at a mine in south central Montana.

The State of Montana finalized a reclamation plan for a mine in western Montana July 24.

The state of Montana released its draft environmental assessment for a waste disposal facility expansion at a hardrock mine in south central Montana and...