drought

Despite some much needed recent rain in the Missoula area, many Montana counties have been dubbed "natural disaster areas" due to severe drought conditions the state has faced in the past few weeks—Missoula being one of them.

A Billings man was killed over the Fourth of July weekend in a fireworks accident.

Today, July 2, the United States Department of Agriculture declared that a large portion of Montana entered D2 or “Severe” drought conditions.

The perfect storm of near record high temperatures will clash with record low rainfall and streamflows later this week, and forecasters are worried.

With all of the warm weather hitting Montana this winter, many are concerned that this summer will be plagued by drought, but that likely won't be the case.

Recent maps released by the U.S. Drought Monitor show much of southern Montana in either severe or extreme drought.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A new report suggests that while recent rains stabilized the devastating drought gripping Iowa and other key farming states, the dry conditions intensified in Kansas and Nebraska. The latest U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday shows the overall expanse of land across the contiguous U...