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  • Gavin NewsomEnvironment

    Newsom, DeSantis join forces to blast ‘idiotic’ push to allow oil drilling off coasts of California, Florida

    By Matthew Daly, Matthew Brown, and others
  • buffaloEconomy

    Shutdown starvation was so bad that some Native American tribes killed the buffalo herds that they helped restore

    By Matthew Brown, Graham Lee Brewer, and others
  • FILE – A haul truck is seen after being loaded with coal by a mechanized shovel at the Spring Creek mine, in this Nov. 15, 2016 photo, near Decker, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)Energy

    The U.S. is about to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in over a decade even as demand wanes. ‘Eventually coal will get pushed out of the market’

    By Matthew Brown, Mead Gruver, and others
  • Gen Z activistsLaw

    Gen Z climate activists take Trump to court in Montana for singlehandedly worsening global warming, they say

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • Trump signing papersEconomy

    Federal lands larger than Delaware move closer to coming up for sale to coal mining companies

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Legislative Branch, speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Oct. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Politics

    House GOP want to use tax-cut package to authorize sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in Nevada and Utah

    By Matthew Daly, Matthew Brown, and others
  • Law officials escort a suspect from an apartment to a waiting utility vehicle for transport during a raid Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in east Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)Politics

    U.S. border czar blames media leaks for hindering major immigration raids in Colorado suburb

    By Colleen Slevin, Thomas Peipert, and others
  • Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Politics

    Senate confirms Doug Burgum as Trump’s interior secretary tasked with boosting fossil fuel production to achieve ‘energy dominance’

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, testifies before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)Environment

    Trump’s interior secretary pick Doug Burgum says U.S. needs to make more electricity from coal to win AI arms race

    By Matthew Brown, Jennifer McDermott, and others
  • FILE – Old-growth Douglas fir trees stand along the Salmon River Trail, June 25, 2004, in Mt. Hood National Forest outside Zigzag, Ore. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)Environment

    A proposal for more logging to curb wildfires could boost timber harvests by more than 200%

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • Tim Sheehy speaking at the RNC.Politics

    Montana GOP Senate candidate accused of passing off accidental self-inflicted gunshot as war injury

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • A police officer moves a barrier for an emergency vehicle Thursday.Tech

    Deadly elevator malfunction traps tourists in historic Colorado mine—cause remains a mystery

    By Matthew Brown, Jesse Bedayn, and others
  • City councilmember Christian Luna-Leal poses for a portrait in front of a detention pond containing mine waste in Leadville, Colo., on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)Environment

    Colorado home of National Mining Museum dubious about plan to ‘remine’ gold from local mine waste

    By Matthew Brown, Brittany Peterson, and others
  • A wildlife technician holds up a dead owl's wing as he takes notes.Environment

    U.S. officials enlist trained shooters to kill 450,000 barred owls—all in the name of saving their cousins from extinction

    By Matthew Brown and The Associated Press
  • A BNSF freight trainFinance

    Warren Buffett-owned BNSF Railway contributed to 2 deaths in Montana town where asbestos sickened thousands, jury finds

    By Amy Beth Hanson, Matthew Brown, and others