The roughly 50 million-ton expansion was approved as a step toward implement Trump's energy emergency directives.

Montana’s mining industry is critically important to not only our state but the country. Hard rock mining for critical minerals like copper, platinum, palladium, and silver provides more than 18,000 ...

Sacrifices made to win WWII weren't just overseas.Contributions to manufacture iron and other essentials for the war effort were produced on the home front.At ...

The proposed expansion of Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountains Mine has also revived scrutiny of a controversial land swap bill that would deprive Musselshell County of tax revenue.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rosebud Mine (Photo/US Department of the Interior) The U.S. Department of the Interior has approved a mining plan modification for ...

The groups, led by the Montana Environmental Information Center, have alleged that Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) last summer approved a modified plan for the ...

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 ...

The Department of the Interior has approved a major expansion of the Rosebud Mine in Rosebud and Treasure counties, Montana, authorizing the recovery of approximately 33.75 million tons of federal ...

The Rosebud coal mine near Colstrip is at the center of a long legal battle over air pollution and heat-trapping gas. It is slated to operate until 2039. The Interior Department has signed off on the ...

A coalition of environmental groups sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its approval of a Montana coal mine expansion, arguing the Interior Department skirted the environmental review process ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Amid a federal government shutdown, the Republican-held U.S. Senate voted Wednesday to open up ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved opening up Montana for more ...