MISSOULA - Steve Running is about to be honored again. The Regents Professor of Ecology at the University of Montana will be among six to receive the first-ever Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award in April. The awards honor those w...

Baseball managers today use statistics such as a player's batting average or a pitcher's success against left-handed hitters to find better players and win more games. The introduction of statistics often went against the intuition of scouts and mana...

WASHINGTON Congress on Tuesday sent President Barack Obama a once-bipartisan bill to fund the domestic Cabinet agencies that evolved instead into a symbol of lawmakers’ free-spending ways and penchant for back-home pet projects. The Senate ap...

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Chairman James Steele Jr. says the interests of Montana’s Indian tribes are the same as those of other Montanans. Steele delivered the biennial State of the Tribal Nations Address Tuesday before a joint s...

WASHINGTON The obstacles that President Barack Obama faces in pushing his ambitious tax and spending plan through Congress became clearer Tuesday as key Democrats took issue with major proposals, and some of their favorite economists said the presi...