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La Niña, a band of cooler-than-normal ocean water, is once again setting up in the Pacific. This could have far reaching implications not only on Montana’s winter conditions, but our deep drought as well.

Daytime highs across Montana next week will likely top out in the upper 40s with overnight lows possibly dipping into the lower 20s.

Last month’s rainfall brought a welcome reprieve to Montana’s active fire season. Experts at the time, however, cautioned it was not a so-called “season-ending” event.

Cooler temperatures in Montana through the weekend are expected to lower fire activity. Forecasters say rain is expected to move into western Montana by Tuesday evening and head east by Wednesday. Up to an inch of rain is expected to fall in parts of the state, enough to dampen fires but not put them out.

Montana’s hot, bone-dry weather this summer has been anything but ”juicy,” but that may be about to change.That’s the word National Weather Service-Missoula forecasters used this week to characterize weather expected to bring wetting rains to north-central Idaho and western Montana starting Sunday.

A smoky haze lent an orange tint to the skies above western Montana Friday morning, but officials say it's not from local fires and it's not affecting air…

Updated 5:10 p.m.Box Elder FireThirty firefighters are working to protect some 21 structures threatened by the Box Elder Fire burning on private land…

Weather forecasters are sticking to their predictions of ferocious heat reaching well past the 100-degree mark this week. Demand for power to run fans and…

Weather forecasters say it will be dangerously hot across the northern Rockies starting early next week through the Independence Day weekend and urge the…

The city of Helena says residents are consuming a concerning amount of water during an unseasonably hot June. Officials are asking residents to use water…