A federal judge has halted a proposal to poison a remote creek in the Absaroka Mountains as part of a trout introduction project, writing that the plan runs counter to the Wilderness Act.

The judge found the project violated the Wilderness Act meant to leave federally designated areas “untrammeled by man.” ...

(CN) — A federal judge this week rejected a plan approved by the U.S. Forest Service to drop poison over Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in an effort to eradicate invasive rainbow trout and ...

Zabi Mohammed was convicted of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of wire fraud Wednesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Missoula before Judge Donald Molloy. He was found ...

MISSOULA - U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy has denied a request for grand jury documents from a man accused of murdering three Florence women in 2001.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A federal judge told the U.S. Forest Service that a plan to kill rainbow trout and replace them ...