More than 50 years ago Montanans rebelled against turning our state into “the boiler room for the nation” by the now-defunct ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana on Monday in the biggest U.S. coal sale in more than a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mechanized shovel loads coal into a haul truck at the Spring Creek mine, in this Nov. 15, 2016 photo, near Decker, Mont. The ...

HELENA - An Australian company said it is buying an interest in coal mines in Montana and Wyoming, a move that comes as interest increases in shipping the product overseas to feed growing energy ...

Arch Coal suspended its application for a major mine in southeastern Montana on Thursday, two months after the mining giant filed for bankruptcy protection and amid broader struggles for the coal ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — A Navajo tribe-owned company bid $186,000 to lease 167 million tons of coal on federal lands in southeastern Montana on Monday in the biggest U.S. coal sale in more than a decade.

BILLINGS, Mont. | Coal companies announced an agreement Thursday to consolidate ownership of a Montana mine in a deal aimed at boosting exports of the fuel to Asia through ports on the U.S. West Coast ...

ROUNDUP, Mont. — Former ranch hand Pat Thiele has spent years fighting a losing battle against a massive coal mine creeping underground toward his central Montana property. Mine owner Signal Peak ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. BILLINGS — Federal officials rejected a company’s bid to acquire 167 million tons of coal on ...

DENVER — Federal officials on Monday took a first step toward reopening vast areas of public lands in two Western states to new coal sales as part of President Donald Trump's push to expand U.S.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The entire Montana Congressional delegation has introduced a measure in Congress — in both the ...