A federal judge in Missoula ruled Tuesday that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wrongly denied Endangered Species Act protections to gray wolves in the West last year. Judge Donald W. Molloy of the ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — A federal judge’s decision this week reset the fight for gray wolf protections across the West. The decision found that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ignored scientific evidence ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — ZooMontana welcomed a new gray wolf. Thor joins a resident wolf, Onyx, who is his brother and littermate. Officials say Thor is in a mandatory quarantine to make sure he's healthy ...

Advocates for gray wolves won a partial victory in court on Tuesday. Federal officials violated the Endangered Species Act when they determined these predators don’t warrant protections in parts of ...

Gray wolf populations have been wiped out in the lower 48 states due to historic government-funded killing programs. Remaining populations exist almost entirely in northeastern Minnesota. (Image ...

A federal judge in Montana ruled Aug. 5 that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service improperly denied a petition to protect gray wolves in the northern Rocky Mountains under the Endangered Species Act.

In the rugged backcountry of Montana, where ranchers battle to protect their livestock and hunters chase the thrill of the chase, a heated decision just shook things up. The state's Fish and Wildlife ...

In a vote on Thursday afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that will delist the gray wolf from the endangered species list throughout the country. H.R. 845, brought by Colorado ...

An endangered Mexican gray wolf named Taylor has repeatedly traveled north of a designated recovery area in New Mexico. Some advocates say the wolves' movements indicate a need to expand their ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Having greatly enjoyed a week of guided wolf-watching in Yellowstone National Park in October ...