Yellowstone park hazes wolves that get used to people

By MIKE KOSHMRLApril 24, 2021 GMT

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Colleen Marzluff whistled to her ornithologist husband, John, as he was looking for a raven nest in a string of trees on the low southern flank of Yellowstone’s Bison Peak...

1 killed, 1 injured in explosion at Butte truck repair shop

March 16, 2021 GMT

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — An explosion that killed a man and injured another at a Butte truck repair shop started when sparks from a welding tool ignited fumes from an oil storage tank, Butte-Silver Bow firefighters said Tuesday...

Wolves rebound, lose protections. Now future up to voters

By MATTHEW BROWN, JAMES ANDERSON and CHRISTINA LARSONOctober 30, 2020 GMT

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The saucer-sized footprints in the mud around the bloody, disemboweled bison carcass were unmistakable: wolves...

Wolves rebound, lose protections. Now future up to voters

By MATTHEW BROWN, JAMES ANDERSON and CHRISTINA LARSONOctober 30, 2020 GMT

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — The saucer-sized footprints in the mud around the bloody, disemboweled bison carcass were unmistakable: wolves...

Butte cryptocurrency servers back in operation

January 27, 2020 GMT

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A cryptocurrency mine in Butte is back in operation after being shut down following the arrest of its majority owner on charges of a $722 million cryptocurrency investment Ponzi scheme...

Atlantic Richfield scraps second Berkeley Pit water plant

January 27, 2020 GMT

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — Atlantic Richfield has scrapped a proposal to build a second water treatment plant to lower the level of acidic, metal-laden water that has collected in a former copper mining pit in Butte...

2 Yellowstone National Park wolf pups killed by vehicle

December 18, 2019 GMT

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A pair of wolf pups were fatally hit by a vehicle in Yellowstone National Park after the animals became used to humans and started hanging around a road near their den, park officials said...

Montana rules unclear in ‘chemical restraint’ of children

By TED MCDERMOTTApril 22, 2019 GMT

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — When Annette Smith found out a 9-year-old Oregon girl she represents was being injected with Benadryl and other antihistamines to chemically restrain her for misbehavior and was also frequently being placed in locked seclusion while being treated at Acadia Montana in Butte, she was "horrified and scared for my client's safety," Smith told members of the Oregon Senate Human Services Committee on April 11...

Interior secretary recommends shrinking 6 national monuments

By MATTHEW DALYSeptember 18, 2017 GMT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that six of 27 national monuments under review by the Trump administration be reduced in size, with changes to several others proposed...