Building a bigger island will provide more spawning and nursery habitat in a stretch of the famed stream where the channel ...

Wednesday in Billings, water from the Yellowstone River was almost up to the bottom of the Highway 87 bridge. Nobody’s seen anything like it. “This is pretty surreal,” said ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana authorities have identified a body found on the Yellowstone River near Shepherd as a 22-year-old woman from Billings who had been missing since October.

Cory Mottice, with the National Weather Service in Billings, said the river was expected to drop below minor flood stage, 13.5 feet by mid-to-late Thursday.

BILLINGS, Mont — Wildlife workers and volunteers scrambled Wednesday to save trout and other fish stranded by an abrupt drop in water levels on a Montana river that’s renowned among anglers.