HELENA -- More Montanans are living in poverty and without health insurance, despite the state having one of the fastest-growing household incomes in the nation, the Census Bureau reported Thursday.

BILLINGS -- A fire outside near Hardin, Montana, reached an estimated 55,000 acres Thursday, and personnel are awaiting the arrival of additional resources.

The driving agent underlying all the social problems in Missoula County is poverty, human services providers said Thursday in Missoula. "Poverty is not an inner-city issue," Kelly Rosenleaf, executive ...

HELENA - Hunger is part of the larger overall problem of poverty, and food banks alone can't solve it. "Overall, the general population, I think, has the belief that emergency food can solve the ...

The Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation distributed $150,000 to 60 food banks, food pantries, rescue missions and homeless shelters across Montana Tuesday. “These basic needs organizations ...

HELENA — While income dropped and poverty rose nationwide last year, things stayed pretty much the same in Montana, two new reports from the U.S. Census Bureau said Tuesday. Montana's average medi an ...