LOS ANGELES - Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen, known for their grimly comic portrayals of human nature, are poking fun at a new target: the coal industry. The filmmaking brothers have directed a television spot for an environmental coalitio...

United Steel Workers Local 11-443 in Laurel has ratified a three-year contract reached with the managers of the CHS Inc. refinery. The contract offers 200 union workers at the Laurel refinery raises of 3 percent per year and a $2,500 bonus for...

Keep a finger on the Queen City’s pulse Thursday, as the Helena Citizens’ Council welcomes residents to an all-districts Neighborhood Fair. Discussions and information about the increasing numbers of trees killed in the South Hills and on...

WASHINGTON White House officials said Sunday that President Barack Obama would sign a $410 billion spending bill that includes thousands of pet projects, known as earmarks, despite campaign promises to put an end to the practice. In appearance...

GREAT FALLS - Construction of a 214-mile power line expected to carry wind-generated electricity between central Montana and Alberta has been delayed by at least five months because of appeals in the United States and Canada. Bob Williams, vice presi..