Montana U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke announced Monday, March 2, that he will retire at the end of his current term in Congress and will not seek re-election. “I have made the decision to leave office at the end of my fourth term and not seek re-election,” Zinke said in his announcement. “I do not take this decision lightly and have informed President Trump, the governor and senior leadership of

A proposal has been submitted to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for a 645-mile pipeline project, slated to pass through multiple counties in Northeast Montana. According to the Billings Gazette, the pipeline would carry more than half a million barrels of Canadian crude oil per day through parts of the region for Bridger Pipeline, based in Casper, Wyo. Roosevelt County Commissioner

Montana is in many ways a land of two halves: a western Montana of snow-capped mountains and national forests joined in political unity with an eastern Montana of wide-open plains and flatland agriculture. It’s a time-honored divide: peaks versus plains, Missoula versus Miles City, Flathead versus Fort Peck lakes. But where exactly is the dividing line? As it turns out, there’s no clear