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.

Film exploring Blackfeet Nation language, Indian Relays wins at Banff Mountain Film Festival.

After fleeing war and persecution, Missoula’s refugee families face losing the food and health care benefits that have long served as a bridge to rebuilding their lives.

Montana chess players line up to get schooled by international chess royalty — and relish every move.

As a tradition falls silent at St. Pat’s Hospital, doctors and patients reflect on the 10-year history of its Family Maternity Center — and what the center’s abrupt closure means for Missoula.

Trump's tariffs are coming for Missoula's morning coffee, hunting knives, and quilting fabric — among many other things.

Mayor Andrea Davis cruises to reelection, and all but one of the candidates she endorsed for city council win, too, as pragmatism prevails over fiscal conservatism and the activist left.

Inside the left-liberal divide shaping Missoula City Council races. Plus, the new signature requirement that's already affected hundreds of ballots.

Are fish pics poisoning Missoula’s dating waters?

Hamilton's fermentation festival is back after a four-year rest.

Marshall Granger’s 'Your Opinion, Please' channels our collective humanity alongside David Lynch’s ‘The Straight Story’ at the Montana Film Festhttps://thepulp.org/no-prior-restraint-in-this-program/

Tales from 10 short films offer funny, frustrating truths about being female.

A forgotten Chinese cemetery reveals how Missoula buries its past — and why the present is so familiar.

On patrol with CSKT's nocturnal bullfrog hunters.

Missoula’s public schools are grappling with the fine print of new education laws — including a fingerprint requirement for volunteers that comes with high costs but no extra funding from the Legislature to cover them.

Travois Village residents raise hell, form tenants union over rent hikes.

With his new book "Grit to Grind," Missoula skater-turned-photographer Andy Kemmis tells the story of how a few kids with decks and nowhere to ride built a statewide skatepark movement.

Montana child care workers who can't afford care for their own kids are about to lose the federal subsidy that made their jobs possible — and Gov. Gianforte already vetoed the fix.

City unveiling initial designs for downtown transportation makeover.

Sheryl Noethe’s new poetry collection, 'The Science of Coincidence,' moves from the Big Bang to personal memory, while exploring dark times and the power of imaginationhttps://thepulp.org/the-universe-in-verse/

The Trump administration’s plans would remake the agency and public lands. The deadline to comment is Sept. 30.

Discord over Missoula City Council seat swap.

The Pulp's throwing a party to celebrate our second birthday and you're invited! 🥳

How Missoula County is myth-busting and meme-making its way into residents’ feeds.

All incumbents sailed through Missoula’s municipal primary on Tuesday, setting up predictable matchups for the fall. The only real drama came in Ward 3, where Jennifer Savage beat fellow incumbent Daniel Carlino in round one.

A strategy for turning the season's final bounty into something that'll taste like August all winter long.

Still haven't dropped off your ballot to vote in Missoula's municipal primary? Here's what you need to know before Tuesday's deadline. 🗳️

The 130-year history of how the Hip Strip keeps Missoula weird.

Talkin’ tomatoes with the Toddfather.

In a culture that prizes pace, running slow can be its own quiet victory — a way to see both the world around you and your place within it.

Guided bike tour traces legacy of Missoula's most famous architect.

At its Southgate Crossing property in Midtown, Missoula bets on private sector to build "missing middle" housing.

Logjam reshaped Missoula’s music scene, bringing big stages and shows, while its corporate playbook drew fire — and lured a much bigger fish.

Photos of the Knowles Fire — one of dozens of wildfires that've ignited across western Montana in the past week.

How Argentina-style asado and Blackfeet bison turned a heavy metal festival into Montana's most epic culinary experience.

The $11 million Opportunity Place project will bring 24 income-restricted apartments to Missoula's Riverfront neighborhood, with eight units designed to be fully accessible for adults with disabilities.

Isabella Seagrave battled wind, waves and exhaustion to become Flathead Lake’s youngest full-length swimmer.

Montana's larger public media organizations gain fundraising momentum after Trump's clawback. But smaller outlets in the state face existential questions.

Walter Kirn's analog newspaper County Highway trades digital distraction for small-town stories — and he's bringing his vision of unhurried journalism to Shakespeare & Co. on Saturday.

Inside the bureaucratic quandary that threatens Missoula’s iconic Brennan’s Wave — and how backers of a second downtown surf wave are learning from it.

Author Brian Buckbee’s bond with a wounded pigeon allows "We Should All Be Birds" to take flight, but the deeper story is one of survival through illness and heartbreak.

Something wicked (and wonderful) this way comes.

Missoula city and county begin budget balancing acts.

Montana punk meets DIY wrestling at Moshoula — a night of flying elbows, feedback, and full-on chaos.

The inaugural Indigenous Arts & Storytelling Festival brings together more than a dozen Native artists, musicians and writers for panel discussions, live music, an art market and more.

Federal funding freeze forces Missoula County Public Schools to tap reserves. And UM's bubble sprang a leak.