For most of the last decade, all the Blackfoot River news turned around the removal of Milltown Dam at its confluence with the Clark Fork River. Now the focus is at the other end, where a new mine ...

It was featured in Norman Maclean’s 1976 novella “A River Runs Through it” and Robert Redford’s 1992 film of the same name. The movie wasn’t filmed on Blackfoot, in part because of its ...

That includes waste from mine area and material from about two miles of the headwaters of the Blackfoot River. It will take four years, including this year, to move all of the waste, Haaland said.

On long stretches of the Clark Fork, Bitterroot and Blackfoot rivers, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have a ...

In 1975, a catastrophic flood blew out an earthen dam below the mine, washing hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of mine waste down the creek drainage and into the Blackfoot River.

From its headwaters near MacDonald Pass west of Helena, the Little Blackfoot River runs along U.S. Highway 12 to join the Clark Fork River at Garrison.

This Montana river is threatened by one senator and a bitter clash over use of public lands. ... (D-Mont.) would designate nearly 80,000 acres at the headwaters of the Blackfoot as Wilderness, ...

The Blackfoot River is the lowest it's been in fly fishing guide KynsLee Scott's career. "I don't know how you could be a guide and not be concerned," she says. Nathan Rott/NPR hide caption ...