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The history of Montana is a rich one. Both figuratively and literally. With some colorful characters helping shape the history of the state, one of the most influential was Marcus Daly.

The coal industry was already hurting before the coronavirus, and the pandemic has made things much worse.

What separates the huddled masses yearning to breathe free from the movers and shakers of the world is a vision of how they could improve things.

The Montana Supreme Court has removed a big obstacle for a mining company seeking to explore a silver and copper deposit potentially worth billions.

Fox Business took a look at the fastest growing jobs state by state. What made the list for Montana? Montana: Environmental engineers - 119 percent The financial institution looked at changes in occupations listed with the Bureau of Labor Statistics over the last 5 years and compared employment data in each state from 2014 with employment data from 2018...

BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Department of Environmental Quality has approved Golden Sunlight's permit for a new underground gold mine at Whitehall. Company general manager Dan Banghart tells the Montana Standard that the new mine won't mean new jobs but it will extend the life of about 140 positions already at the mining operation...

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke finalized the withdrawal of more than 30,000 acres of federal lands in southwest Montana’s Paradise Valley from mining for 20 years, subject to valid existing rights.

There are two initiatives proposed for the November ballot that are prompting state legislative leaders to poll their fellow members for a possible special session proposed for July.

Back in the 1950s Montana was in the top 5 states in income. And why? We had a long history of gold, silver, copper lead, zinc manganese and coal mining.