Editor's note: This is Part Two of a two-part series. It looms in the distance, 5 miles from Interstate 90 and reaching 585 feet into the sky. The brick smokestack between Anaconda and Butte looms as ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Tech’s Native Plant Program is inviting the public to take part in a community planting on Sunday, Sept. 28, from noon to 4:30 p.m. The event will be held at Buffalo Street ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Butte tree ornaments are available to commemorate the Copper Star on display in the Butte-Silver Bow Courthouse. A second holiday ornament commemorates 20 years of the Lighten Up ...

Today we celebrate a historic moment in Butte. Yesterday, the State of Montana approved the BPSOU consent decree, and this agreement can now be lodged with the U.S. District Court for Montana for its ...

Jim Robbins is a Montana-based freelance writer. He last wrote for the magazine about the West's wild wolves. Ghosts dwell among the living in Butte, Montana, a mining town haunted by its glory days, ...

One of my favorite things about the podcast-boom era is the flourishing of in-depth regional stories—many of them intrepid early ventures into long-form narratives by local public-radio stations. Some ...

“The Richest Hill on Earth.” An easy claim to make, and a remarkable thing to brag about. But is it true? Local historian Dick Gibson has lived in Butte since 2003 and serves as a tour guide for Old ...