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Scientists in the Cooley Lab at MSU in the Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology are infecting ticks with the bacteria borrelia, the primary cause of Lyme disease, which allows them to study how ...

Visitation fees for international visitors to Yellowstone and Glacier national parks are slated to increase substantially in ...

Taking a page from studies in Yellowstone National Park and the Blackfeet Reservation, Fort Peck is joining Montana groups ...

Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera star in “The Lost Bus,” a new movie based on the devastating Camp Fire, the most destructive wildfire in California’s history. It was released in theaters for ...

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A lone bison bull wanders through a leafless aspen grove along Crystal Creek in Yellowstone’s Lamar Valley. The Bannock Trail wildlife corridor through that area has been used for thousands of years.

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A westslope cutthroat trout in the Blackfoot River in western Montana. Montana’s state fish is the blackspotted cutthroat, an amalgamation of the westlope and the Yellowstone cutthroat, now known as ...

An apparent mistake that led at least 3,000 Gallatin County taxpayers to collectively overpay more than $8.5 million in property taxes over four years has carried impacts to budgets and has left ...

The sun was low and this Canada lynx moved through the shadows as he approached the shore of a frozen lake in southern Yukon. Its cousin, the Eurasian lynx, vanished from Great Britain about 1,300 ...