Previous park shutdowns — Yellowstone’s gates remained open, but staffing was winnowed down to a skeleton crew during the 34-day shutdown that straddled the 2018-2019 winter — have helped Cary McGary, ...

Part 3 of The Shelter Gap, a three-part series examining barriers to buying, renting and building homes on reservation land and highlighting the community benefits of secure housing.

Opened this year, the Watershed Navigation Center aims to reduce homelessness and crime by connecting those in need to housing and other essential services.

The Walt Sullivan Building, housing the Montana Department of Labor and Industry, in Helena on Thursday, Jan. 26. Credit: Samuel Wilson / Bozeman Daily Chronicle The state-contracted rehabilitation ...

This story is excerpted from the MT Lowdown, a weekly newsletter digest containing original reporting and analysis published every Friday The state’s approach to disclosing climate impacts in its ...

Part 1 of a three-part series examining barriers to buying, renting and building homes on reservation land and highlighting the community benefits of secure housing.

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The answer, at its most basic level, is that a patchwork of historical and conflicting federal policies including the Allotment Act have congealed over the course of more than a century into an ...

A “National Park Service Contingency Plan” dated September 2025 and obtained by Mountain Journal stated that “park roads, lookouts, trails and open-air memorials will generally remain accessible to ...

Wednesday marks the beginning of a new federal fiscal year, but without a federal budget passed by Congress and no agreement on a short-term funding bill, it appeared agencies would begin the new ...

Officials approved the new law but caution that prohibiting the camps that have troubled the city since the pandemic won’t end homelessness.

It’s unclear if a federal government shutdown would affect the operations of national parks, including Yellowstone and Glacier.