National forests in Montana are slated to get about $10.1 million in federal stimulus money for facilities and trails, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday. The money is part of the $274 million set aside in the 2009 American...

LOS ANGELES On naked patches of land in western Canada and United States, scientists are planting trees that don’t belong there. It’s a bold experiment to move trees threatened by global warming into places where they may thrive amid a ...

BILLINGS (AP) Federal courts will decide whether the Yellowstone region’s grizzly bears will regain endangered-species status after negotiations collapsed in two lawsuits over the issue. Roughly 600 grizzlies live in the forests and mountains...

The Helena Housing Authority expects to save $2.4 million in utility costs over the next 15 years after it completes an energy upgrade of its 366 city housing units. The project marks the first “performance contract” with a public ho...

WASHINGTON (AP) Health care and environment-focused jobs will drive a jobs recovery, the White House predicted Monday even as it cautioned that the work will require better training to give workers greater skills. President Barack Obama’s Cou...