MATTOON — A total of 2,200 persons ate chicken dinners during the July 4 th celebration Friday at Peterson Park. Michael Highland, chairman of this year’s Mattoon Fire Fighters Association’s picnic, ...

When we think of Montana, it’s cabins, skiing, and the great wilderness that usually come to mind. Montana is also one of ...

Following a warm, dry spring and early summer that hammered the winter snowpack, Montana’s rivers are already showing signs ...

Video by Nick Blatt and McKenna Ewen, CNN (CNN) — The American West is full of towns that serve as gateways into the natural ...

The impact fireworks can have on air quality can be quite striking and seemingly outsized given their relatively small ...

Thirty years after wolves were brought back from near extinction in the U.S. Rocky Mountains, the state of Idaho is back in ...

In rural Southwest Montana, a clash over tax fairness and critical services between a luxury ski community and a modest town ...

Than Axtell, a fly-fishing guide who has lived in western North Carolina for three decades, adores the unimpeded wilderness ...

Prized public lands on California’s North Coast are among the 250 million acres across 11 western states that would be ...

Other classic peaks like Bell Mountain in the Lemhi Range also could be sold off, along with huge sections of the Centennial, Beaverhead, Lemhi, Lost River, Pioneer and Boulder ranges.

DILLON, Mont. — Off the Pioneer Mountains Scenic Byway between Wise River and Polaris is an abandoned mining settlement. NBC Montana spent timein this ghost town, which is on the National ...

GALLATIN CANYON, Montana — The House Rock section of the Gallatin River is to whitewater kayaking what Teton Pass is to powder skiing or Moab is to mountain biking. It’s a foundational proving ground ...