To see the best of Butte, Montana, all Joyce OBill has to do is look out her front window at the gleaming white Virgin Mary on the mountain. I look out every morning and say hi, she says. Perched ...

Butte is ugly, the pamphlets and websites said. Ugly from the days of metal mining, from the reign of Montana’s Copper Kings. Lead-stained ground, air-blown arsenic, metals in the soil. Dingy ...

Butte was a beacon in the dark, a warm handshake with cold fingertips. When winter came, I headed south: Memphis, Nashville, and then Austin, Texas, where I spent 13 years making music.

BUTTE, Mont. — Celebrities will soon be flocking to Butte for a celebration of the arts known as the first annual Northwest 360 Winter Fest, set for Jan. 13-16.

The Montana Folk Festival returns Friday to Uptown Butte, offering a weekend of free music performances across six stages and much more. The free event traces its origins to the storied National ...

The Yankee Doodle Tailings Pond is seen on April 30 in Butte-Silver Bow County. Montana Resources says it wants to increase the facility's storage capacity by raising the elevation of the dam.

There’s a saying here in Big Sky Country — "If you don't like the weather in Montana, wait 20 minutes." Okay, that may be a bit of an exaggeration, but truthfully, the one-liner does have some ...