L'AQUILA, Italy - The chasm between rich and poor on how to address climate change burst into the open at the G-8 summit Thursday, showing how difficult it will be to persuade the world to make lifestyle and economic sacrifices needed to save the pla...

MARY PICKETT - Billings Gazette - 07/09/09 When a road through the heart of Glacier National Park was being planned in the 1920s, one proposal called for 15 switchbacks zig zagging up the steep sides of Logan Creek Valley to Logan Pass. One critic, T...

NEW YORK (AP) Oil prices neared $60 per barrel Wednesday as the government reported that stockpiles of unused gasoline soared again. Retail gas prices have fallen every day for more than two weeks, and gasoline futures fell more than 9 cents a...

EDITOR’S NOTE One in a series on promises made by public officials, part of an Associated Press emphasis on government accountability. WASHINGTON President Barack Obama promised to fix health care and trim the federal budget deficit, all wi...

NEW YORK The past year has been tough on T. Boone Pickens and his $60 million mission to wean America off foreign oil. Over the past 12 months, Pickens pressed the public to rethink its use of energy. His “Pickens Plan” called for ...