Montana’s famous cow-to-person ratio has narrowed a bit. U.S. Department of Agriculture data from early 2024 shows 2.12 ...

The Montana Department of Corrections and Flathead County last week signed an interlocal agreement allowing the state to move ...

State wildlife officials are looking to loosen regulations and increase quotas on wolf hunting and trapping for the 2025-26 season. Among the potential changes is a 50% increase to both the statewide ...

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A rancher in Garfield County needs a criminal defense attorney. The closest one practicing criminal law is 150 miles away. Meanwhile, a defendant in Billings has dozens of Montana attorneys within ...

Two metro-east counties were among the 15 in the state to gain population from 2020 to 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Data shows Ravalli County, Mont., an area seeing explosive population and development growth, is at higher wildfire risk than the vast majority of counties in the country.

Counties like Lewis and Clark, Granite, Cascade and Flathead have been labeled as natural disaster areas for drought.

Gallatin and Flathead were the fastest growing counties in Montana between 2023 and 2024, while the city of Kalispell has grown nearly 25% since 2020, adding more residents than any Montana city, ...

A quarter of Gallatin County’s increase was due to a younger population. The county’s birth rate was 1,141 people while only 686 individuals died during the year of record.

Gallatin and Flathead were the fastest-growing counties in Montana between 2023 and 2024, while the city of Kalispell has grown nearly 25% since 2020, adding more residents than any Montana city ...

The federal government last week released the latest population counts for the nation’s more than 3,000 counties, as well as all incorporated cities and towns.