UM's decision to kill its master's in literature — over faculty objections — further erodes the university's liberal arts identity.

New downtown dumpling joint Pelz brings tradition and Alaskan-style punch to the Russian pelmeni.

Unions representing mobile home parks in Missoula and Bonner say they’ve secured some concessions from their Texas-based landlord.

A lifelong Missoula candy lover opens Zootown Sweets with help from his daughters and a serious stockpile of nostalgia.

Jeremiah Shinn picked to be University of Montana's next president.

A proposed AI data center at Bonner’s former bitcoin mine tests zoning rules born from the last tech boom.

Ahead of her talk in Missoula, author and agroecologist Liz Carlisle discusses perennial foods, Native foodways, and what plants can teach us about getting through hard times.

A data portrait of Missoula’s strangely warm and short winter.

Jeff Tweedy bandmates (and opening acts) talk 'Twilight Override' tour, musician life and putting good things into the world.

Jeff Tweedy is covering a different local song in every city that they play. With his band coming to Missoula April 7, we solicited a few suggestions from Montana music lovers.

Missoula to lose Forest Service regional office in sweeping reorganization. The agency's national headquarters is also moving — from D.C. to Salt Lake City.

Ahead of the inaugural Local News Day, we sat down with the Montana publisher who started it all.

Along the winding Snowbowl Road, a homeless veteran tends the fire and examines his prospects.

Missoula’s Bill Vaughn wrote with mischief, rigor and irreverence — and never let the world feel ordinary.

An Anaconda man drove to Missoula and entered an abortion provider's backyard armed with a revolver before changing his mind, prosecutors say.

Four Montana Democrats running for Congress made their case at the first debate. Here's what they said — and what it tells us about the party's uphill climb.

The Bonner community is warming to Blackfoot Crossing’s affordable housing proposal along the Blackfoot River. But a second truck stop? Not so much.

How Montana tribes are using sovereignty to restore their waterways.

Dispatch from the snow globe at the top of Highway 93.

Former UM president Seth Bodnar launched an independent Senate campaign to challenge entrenched Republican incumbent Steve Daines. Hours later, Daines dropped out.

Western Montana’s congressman, Ryan Zinke, won’t seek reelection — and the scramble for his seat is already underway.

The real winner of Missoula’s snowplow naming contest.

This winter pasta from local farm kitchens tastes like dinner and dessert all at once.

A mild winter has more Missoulians flouting Mount Jumbo's seasonal closure that protects wintering elk — and the city's trail cameras are watching.

Kendra Mylnechuk Potter's ambitious MMIP play is showing at the Montana Theater — and it's unlike anything produced here before.

It took director Rachael L. Morrison a decade and a cache of forgotten cassette tapes to let a blind phone hacker finally tell his own extraordinary story. The film, 'Joybubbles,' screens at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

Film director Caron Creighton and organizer LaMonte Ford on the Oakland encampment that took the state of California to court — and what their story means for cities like Missoula. 'Wood Street' premieres at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

Missoula filmmaker Damon Ristau's documentary about 18-year-old Linnea Mills' preventable scuba diving death in Glacier National Park premieres at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival this weekend.

An unapologetically subjective guide to the 2026 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

A Missoula dessert travels across the country to bring a moment of calm to a New York apartment.

MCPS is reviewing 14 non-school properties worth millions. But what look like real estate decisions on paper pose harder questions about what neighborhoods are willing to lose.

For decades, 500 South Higgins told Missoula's story. Now a former Griz quarterback is drafting the property's next chapter. How might a $100 million Higgins Waterfront development reshape the city’s riverside core?

How a hardcore carnivore's favorite dish undid decades of bland bean curd trauma.

The Missoula smokejumper and union organizer running for Congress thinks Democrats forgot about the working class. We sat down to talk — in his backyard sauna.

How a team of Missoula business owners is bringing the city's Art Moderne landmark back from its post-pandemic slumber.

Missoulians join national outcry over deadly immigration enforcement — as seen from above and on the ground.

University of Montana President Seth Bodnar's mid-year exit all but confirms Senate ambitions.

In 'Train Dreams,' the new film adaptation of Denis Johnson’s novella, I saw my own Forest Service career reflected back at me.

The Classic Spanish Coffee is a dramatic and delicious cocktail served at Missoula’s new coffee and cocktails bar inside the historic Florence building — a downtown landmark undergoing a revival.

University of Montana President Seth Bodnar expected to challenge Republican Sen. Steve Daines, with former Sen. Jon Tester's backing.

From feral pigs to wild game, the Montana Food Bank Network is leveraging some creative sources of protein for hungry families.

AI giant Anthropic may owe dozens of Montana authors money after training its Claude chatbot on pirated books. But writers say a copyright settlement doesn't address a deeper anxiety — losing the humanity in humanities.

Sally Thompson’s ‘Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World’ reaches back to the first encounter between the Salish and Jesuit missionaries, where two radically different ways of understanding land were forced to coexist — with consequences that continue to unfold.

From zoning code reform debates and shelter closure to Mayor Davis' landslide re-election and DOGE budget cuts, here's what mattered most.

As the Missoula City Council prepares to vote on a new zoning code, The Pulp talks with a builder and an affordable housing advocate about what the reforms unlock — and why change can't wait.

If your joke relies on a slur, you’re not pushing boundaries — you’re skipping the punchline. Missoula’s comedy scene, for the most part, gets the difference.

The Pulp’s holiday guide to enabling your favorite humans.

Missoula City Cemetery board weighs letting residents decompose the old-fashioned way.

Montana's flagship universities are racing to integrate AI across campus, despite big concerns about academic integrity and the technology's true costs.

Montana knows Tom Catmull's Last Resort from years of brewery gigs, but the trio's debut offers something new: 12 catchy roots pop originals with stories that sneak up on you.