From Crow Nation teenagers channeling Nirvana to a Missoula neo-soul collective and Livingston surf-rockers, independent Montana artists just dropped new releases to stock your summer soundtrack.

A documentary from Missoula's High Plains Films about the insects holding life on earth together is back at the Roxy.

The cake decorators at a Missoula Walmart have become local legends. Corporate has no comment.

A new web tool called TroutCast can predict how drought will hit Montana's blue-ribbon trout fisheries, potentially before managers have to shut them down.

During the day, Missoula's Montgomery Distillery moonlights as a cafe called Mama Tried.

For one Hamilton conservative, the 2026 primary election season became a fight to reclaim and defend his Republican identity from his own political party.

How Missoula's Lolo Hardware turned a climbing obsession, memes and a napkin manifesto into a real(ish) business.

From the Big Dipper to Madagascar, vanilla is anything but plain.

Three Democrats are vying for an open Missoula legislative seat. Their priorities look similar. Their backgrounds don't.

Montana Republicans keep trying to rewrite the laws around same-day voter registration and other election procedures. Ahead of the June 2 primary, here's what's settled, what isn't, and who's caught in the middle.

Bayern's new Kölsch breaks with tradition as brewery's founder prepares for retirement.

Two engineers couldn't find bear spray on a trip. Now their vending machines stock some of the West's wildest trailheads.

The stage is set for Missoula County's first hearing on the data center proposed for the Bonner Mill site on the banks of the Blackfoot.

More than 50 years ago, a smokejumper carried tree seeds to space and back. Some were planted in Missoula. The rest of the story is about how we forgot.

A Montana PBS investigation uncovered dangerous levels of "forever chemicals" in Montana fish — and evidence the governor's office buried the findings.

An obituary might be the last place you'd look for a surprising, deeply reported story. A new podcast from UM journalism professor Jule Banville and Radiolab founder Jad Abumrad proves otherwise.

As Missoula builds up and over itself, a former poet laureate is holding the line on Levasseur Street.

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.