Dana Christensen

A Montana federal district court judge has announced his plan to retire from active service, effectively creating a vacancy on the panel.

A U.S. District Court judge put a hold on the project Wednesday on the basis that the Forest Service did not properly evaluate the project’s impact on the small threatened grizzly bear population in the bordering Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem.

U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the snow-loving Canada lynx that could include more land in Colorado and other western states where the rare animals would be protected, according to a legal agreement made public Tuesday.

A U.S. District Court judge in Missoula has stopped a logging project on the Lolo National Forest, saying it didn’t follow the forest’s management plan.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The state of Montana has no valid reason to require a man to register as a sex offender based on his conviction for having gay sex in…

HELEN, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday denied a request for an emergency injunction to block most Montana counties from mailing ballots to…

The option for counties to conduct the November election by all-mall ballot will stay in place. That’s the ruling from a federal judge Wednesday following…

State and federal courts ruled on Aug. 19 that the Green Party will remain off the November election ballot in Montana.

The roughly 700 grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park will remain federally protected under the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Ninth…

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — A judge says he won't block sheep grazing in a mountain range on the Idaho-Montana border despite worries by wildlife advocates…