A deal to end the government shutdown is too late for about 30 bison on the Fort Peck reservation in northern Montana.

"We want to assure you that the Tribes are actively developing a plan of action to address this issue until benefits are ...

Members of the Fort Peck Tribes took legal action in September against the Montana secretary of state and two counties alleging a lack of satellite election offices on the reservation caused voter ...

Fort Peck tribal members are suing Valley County seeking satellite voting locations, arguing that Indigenous voters have poor access to the polls. Attorneys for the tribal voters say the absence of ...

The Snyder Act, passed 100 years ago, was the first step in a long road to protect the right of Native Americans to vote. But the challenge for Indigenous voters persists to this day, and one Montana ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Native Americans living on a remote Montana reservation filed a lawsuit against state and county officials Monday saying they don’t have enough places to vote in person — the ...

POPLAR - As the Missouri River drops out of the Rocky Mountains and snakes across the plains toward St. Louis, it passes through some of the most barren land in the country. It was here, on an arid ...

Cleanup crews have so far removed an estimated 1,435 tons of soil that was tainted by an oil spill discovered on the Fort Peck Reservation on April 27. That's more than 50 large dump trucks full, and ...

Eleven Yellowstone National Park bison were transferred to the Fort Peck Reservation on Wednesday, the fourth such shipment of the quarantined wildlife meant to boost herds across the nation. The Fort ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Sixty-five bison from Yellowstone National Park were due to arrive at northeast Montana's Fort Peck Reservation on Monday under a long-stalled initiative to repopulate parts of ...

POPLAR — Joseph Erickson, 12, eases into the padded chair in the Poplar Elementary School dental screening room and fiddles with the overhead light, pulling it down to within inches of his face to ...

As a historic government shutdown interrupted food aid for tens of millions of people, tribal leaders across the Great Plains have been culling their cherished bison herds to help fill ...