TWIN BRIDGES – Brian Wheeler has spent a fair bit of the last six years wearing waders in the middle of the Big Hole River documenting river conditions and collecting samples of macroinvertebrates.

BUTTE — The announcement Tuesday by Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks struck some river watchdogs as puzzling. They wondered about FWP’s decision to reopen sections 3 and 4 of the Big Hole River to ...

The Upper Missouri Waterkeeper filed a 121-page lawsuit last week seeking a district court’s intervention in the advocacy group’s latest effort to compel a state response to nutrients pollution in the ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks has confirmed an investigation is underway after at least two side-by-sides that drove through an area of the Big Hole River where brown trout are ...

ANACONDA, Mont. — A 26-mile section of the Big Hole River is now reopened to fishing. The section extends from the confluence with the North Fork of the Big Hole River downstream to Dickie Bridge.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. An environmental group is suing the Montana Department of Environmental Quality over its decision ...

Two river watchdog groups insist the Big Hole River needs a pollution fix and have called on the state’s environmental agency to make that happen.