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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…

PHOENIX (AP) — Much of the American West has been blasted with sweltering heat this week as a high pressure dome combines with the worst drought in modern…

Fire experts say the potential for significant wildland fires west of the Divide is normal for now but will grow and spread into tinder-dry eastern…

A volunteer fire department northeast of Helena continues to respond to a six- to eight-acre wildland fire that burned a house, outbuildings and dry grass…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The National Weather Service on Tuesday issued a hazardous weather warning for parts of Montana and Wyoming as temperatures were…