Key takeaways from our investigation revealing how expensive properties use a system meant to help farmers and ranchers.

It was a modern-day range war in a warming West – a fight for power in its most elemental form,” wrote Amy Gamerman, author ...

For Montana ranchers, winter isn’t a time to slow down. It’s when the real work begins. As temperatures drop and the snow ...

Thousands of million-dollar homes benefit from a sizeable tax break intended for farms and ranches, Montana Free Press and ...

At a glance, they appear quite similar, each the sort of rural dream house that has become an inescapable part of Montana’s landscape. A look at their tax bills, though, reveals a difference ...

Earlier this week, Montana Free Press and High Country News published a lengthy investigation into a facet of the state’s tax code that has been a perennial concern on the loophole front for decades: ...

With land prices soaring in Montana, groups that assist landowners with conservation easements to protect sage grouse habitat from being developed are running into a financial roadblock.

A report released by a Montana farm group says climate change is costing the state jobs and revenue, in addition to having a devastating long-term impact on Montana's most vital crops. Agriculture ...

On the banks of the Flathead River, along an oxbow southeast of Kalispell, a pair of million-dollar homes sit adjacent to ...