MISSOULA, Mont. — The Banana Lake Fire, located four miles north of Plains, Montana, has burned 913 acres of open timber since it was first discovered on Saturday at 4:25 p.m. The cause of the fire ...

PLAINS, Mont. — The Banana Lake Fire, located four miles north of Plains, Montana, has burned 850 acres of open timber since it was first discovered on Saturday at 4:25 p.m. The cause of the fire ...

Plains Elementary School is a public school located in Plains, MT, which is in a remote rural setting. The student population of Plains Elementary School is 235 and the school serves PK-6. At Plains ...

SANDERS COUNTY, Mont. -- Fire crews fought a large fire burning north of Plains, Montana overnight on Sunday, according to Plains-Paradise Rural Fire District. Around 3 a.m. on June 1, PPRFD responded ...

I was born in eastern Montana, on a dusty stretch of nearly riverless high plains north of the Bull Mountains. I came of age there, in a country that has never not been true frontier, in the late ’80s ...

An early season winter blast brought a foot of snow to Montana Wednesday, canceling school buses and sending residents for their shovels. With the storm moving east, major portions of the country can ...

The Great Plains are facing increasing fire risks due to climate change, and efforts are underway to get prairie-dwellers to adapt to the new reality. Climate change is increasing the fire risk on the ...

Halfway to the distant horizon, a herd of several hundred buffalo graze in the long grasses of the Great Plains. High above the rolling terrain, a big hawk wheels and swoops. Four elk bucks – a stag ...