In the late nineteenth century, a total solar eclipse passed over the western United States, stretching from Montana Territory to Texas. The spectacle, in the summer of 1878, drew people ...

On a scorching July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age, the moon's shadow descended on the American West, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas.

The Nez Perce had lost 90% of their homeland to the controversial 1863 “Thief Treaty” that many bands never signed. In 1877, ...

He was one of those early stymied gold-seekers in Bannack who stuck with Montana Territory and beyond. Nearly everything else he touched turned to gold – Butte copper at the top of the list.

One public radio station on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is set to lose 70% of its budget if this measure gets signed ...

Rule stopped future federal coal leasing in 17 eastern Montana counties; new legislation would overturn that decision.

The Montana Club was founded in 1885 in Helena in what was then Montana Territory by 50 male attorneys, bankers, mining, livestock and timber magnates, politicians, transportation titans ...

Although few in number — less than 190 African-Americans lived in Montana Territory in 1870 — they participated in every aspect of frontier life, including being miners, cowboys and soldiers.

Longtime Montana politician U.S. Rep. John Patrick "Pat" Williams, 87, of Missoula, died Wednesday. The former Democratic legislator, and the last Democrat Montana elected to the U.S. House of ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to review a blocked Montana law that would require physicians to obtain a parent's consent before performing an abortion on a minor.

Here are some key dates in the history of the transportation in Montana and the state Department of Transportation, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.

MISSOULA, Mont. — Planned Parenthood Advocates of Montana sounded the alarm this week on President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”. Martha Fuller, who leads the group, told NBC Montana this ...