Bannack State Park is a National Historic Landmark and Montana’s first territorial capital. It is the site of Montana’s first major gold discovery in 1862. Bannack became a state park in 1954.

Brace yourself for the new math of Mount Rainier National Park’s northwest corner.

A Senate budget proposal would require the sale of public lands across 11 western states, including Washington.

A civil engineer with a mining background, Stanton, inspired by a visit to the gold dredging operation around Bannack, Montana, invested in a dredge to process the large volume of sand and gravel ...

A technique used in the New Zealand placers in 1882 and first employed in North America at Bannack, Montana, in 1897, dredging was used effectively in the gold fields of California and Alaska.

With the growing popularity of the country’s 10th-most-visited national park, seeings its sights (or just getting in the front door) is getting more complicated.

MISSOULA, Mont. — A new map generated by an overnight infrared flight shows the Jericho Mountain Fire burning approximately five miles south MacDonald Pass has nearly doubled in size to 351 acres.

For great views on the water (and under the water when it comes to this lake's beautiful multicolored rocks), this Montana ...

Tim Urbaniak, right, instructor in the Montana State University Billings College of Technology drafting and design program, and COT graduate Nick Andrews look at a three-dimensional map of ...