With residential development requests on the increase in Montana, a state task force is offering local officials, planning boards and others a chance to learn how streamside planning can help to conserve local values, protect private property, guard builders and

Attention boaters: new boat validation decals are needed before you launch your boat this year. The red validation decal obtained for motorboats, sailboats, or personal watercraft expired at the end of February and should be removed or covered. The new

The third Saturday in May, May 17, is the 2008 general fishing season opener. That makes it a special day for thousands of anglers itching to fish Montana's rivers and streams. The general fishing season traditionally opens on the third

Spring black bear hunting in some management units closes May 15, while hunting in other bear management units closes May 31 or June 15. Hunters are responsible for checking the 2008 bear regulations for exact season dates before they hunt.

The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission is seeking comment on tentative mountain lion hunting quotas for the 2008 season. While the commission has tentatively agreed to maintain most of the 2007 mountain lion quotas, here and #39;s an update

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is seeking public comment on two fundraising fishing contests and one contest rescheduled for the open water season of 2008. Participants must comply with state fishing regulations, including daily and possession limits. Here are the

Patti Sowka, director of the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, got the call on a recent Tuesday afternoon. A facility maintenance person found an ailing loon wrapped in fishing line near the Big Sandy fishing access site

The board of TIP-MONT, Montana and #39;s outdoor crime stopper program, recently awarded $14,900 to 27 individuals who called the TIP-MONT hot line in 2007 and provided valuable information helping to solve outdoor crimes. TIP-MONT logged nearly 1,400 calls in

Diamond prospectors made historic discovery.

Three Utah men set out from Vermont on Sunday planning to set a record for a cross-country drive.

Marine scientists studying the carcass of a rare colossal squid said Wednesday they had measured its eye at about 11 inches across — bigger than a dinner plate — making it the largest animal eye on Earth.

A physicist says carbon vacuums around the planet could reel the world's atmosphere back toward the 18th century.

NASHUA, N.H. - After a Red Sox-Yankees argument spilled outside a bar, a Yankee fan aimed her car at a group of people to scare them and didn't brake, hitting and killing a man, authorities and witnesses said.

SOUTH CHICAGO HEIGHTS, Ill. - Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he's got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it.

OLPE, Germany - German police arrested the mother of three infants whose bodies were found stuffed into a basement freezer, a prosecutor's spokesman said Monday.

PORTLAND, Ore. - For years, the sea lions lounging at the Bonneville Dam have had easy pickings from salmon waiting to go up fish ladders to upriver spawning grounds.

AMSTETTEN, Austria - Police say the Austrian man accused of holding his daughter captive for 24 years planned to build his secret cell as early as 1978, when she was just 12 years old.

The way the warden sees it, the more than 400-pound black bear living in the middle of the sprawling Louisiana State Penitentiary is an extra layer of security.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Police say they have discovered 300 dead cats stuffed into freezers at a man's Sacramento home.

To some, Portland's quirkier qualities - such as the Velveteria, a black velvet painting museum - make the city even more endearing.