BUTTE, Mont. — Preparations have been completed for Montana’s largest fireworks show of the Fourth of July weekend. Butte’s ...

At 92 years of age, lifelong Butte resident George Parrett has seen it all. A longtime principal and teacher in Butte, ...

Haley Joy Tate was crowned Miss Montana and Mary Grace Kunffke was selected Miss Montana Teen at the pageant held at the ...

A normal day in Montana took a turn when locals reported an unusual sighting: an elephant on the loose in Butte. The incident was captured on video by stunned witnesses as the animal wove through ...

News of former U.S. Congressman Pat Williams’ death broke late Wednesday night. By daybreak Thursday, messages of condolences ...

The indomitable Butte, Montana The misunderstood, often-maligned mining town helps itself. by Christy Hays Pickett March 19, 2025 March 18, 2025. Click to print (Opens in new window) Print; ...

To see the best of Butte, Montana, all Joyce O’Bill 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.

For the third year in a row, a Montana city is embracing the holiday spirit by allowing defendants to pay off some of their court fines with donations to the local food bank.

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.

Rob O'Neill's most-recent comments came two days after he took a shot at his native hometown of Butte and the Democratic Party on X, formerly known as Twitter.

There was a healthy dose of skepticism in Butte, Mont., when Hollywood producers began showing up to shoot their shows. Now, many say the industry’s arrival has been a boon for the city.