Leaders of Montana and British Columbia said Tuesday they will ban drilling and mining in a remote valley along the US-Canada border that companies have tried to develop for more than a quarter-century. Proposals for gas drilling, gold exploration and coal mining are all pending in the million-acre ...

Weakness in Western energy-producing states helped raise the average U.S. county's economic stress in December to its highest point since the recession began in December 2007, according to The Associated Press' monthly analysis of conditions in more than 3,100 U.S ...

Billionaire Ted Turner is getting 88 Yellowstone National Park bison from a faltering Montana program that was supposed to put the disease-free animals on public or tribal lands. The animals were spared several years ago from a periodic slaughter of bison leaving Yellowstone because of ...

The major storm that brought significant winter weather to the Southeast heading into the weekend was expected to move off the Eastern Seaboard on Sunday, allowing the nation's eastern half to dry out. A few early morning snow showers were predicted for the Mid-Atlantic before they quickly diminished as the storm moved away from the ...