Livestock

Grizzly bear predation of Montana ranch animals has reached a new high after a record setting year in 2015. Montana Livestock Loss Board Director George Edwards explains.

Why is it important to know how to bathe a chicken? Just one of the questions to be answered during a new feature from the Western Montana Fair called Exhibitor Demo Day.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Gray wolf numbers in Montana declined 12 percent last year and livestock attacks by the predators took an even sharper drop after four years of regulated hunting and trapping.

The National Weather Service has issued a forecast for snow and cold temperatures to impact areas of the northern Rockies of Montana and Idaho starting Wednesday evening through Saturday.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that it would send a one-time payment of $170,000  to the Montana Livestock Board to help cover losses due to wolf predation.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Billings police sniper has shot a runaway cow after it got loose and ran over a man several blocks away. The Billings Gazette reports the cow escaped Tuesday while being unloaded near the Public Auction Yards on Billings' South Side...