Libby Montana

A growing set of business owners, non-profits and agencies in Montana are trying to expand what we think of when we talk about the economic value of the…

In about a year, the Environmental Protection Agency will leave Libby, where it’s worked for the last two decades to clean up asbestos contamination, a…

BNSF Railway is promoting Libby as an area ripe for new rail-reliant development. The Kootenai Business Park is one of three industrial sites nationwide…

Rain in western Montana Monday did little to slow fire growth across the state."Well it’s a mixed blessing," said Jay Nichols, a spokesperson assigned to…

Last summer, as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt established a Superfund Task Force, and named Butte and Anaconda as top…

Updated and corrected: 5:35 p.m., 07/30/18Twenty fires have flared up in the Kootenai National Forest, all caused by lightning from weekend storms.Most of…

A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of an environmental group challenging a timber and forest thinning project in the Kootenai National Forest.The…

Before firefighters entered the Modified Fire Response Zone of the asbestos-contaminated forest near Libby to suppress the Highway 37 Fire, they donned…

The Bacon Rind Fire, detected Friday evening above the Gallatin Canyon about 20 miles south of Big Sky is now being estimated at 202 acres. It was started…

Firefighter safety is of particular concern on the Highway 37 Fire north of Libby because of its proximity to a patch of asbestos-contaminated…