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.

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.