Explosive Real Estate
By Kellen Beck
A light layer of snow blankets the North Helena Valley, covering old mortar pieces hidden in long pasture grass. Spent 105 mm...
Under the Needle
By Kevin Dupzyk
Roger DiBrito suffers from pain in his neck and shoulders and a severe fear of needles. He and his wife, Sharon, regularly...
Local Food, Local People: Q&A with Emily Wendler
By Megan Petersen, photos by Mandy Tippett
Montana graduate student Emily Wendler spent four weeks with a family struggling to eat all local, only to...
Handle With Care: Endangered Sources
By Baylea O’Brien
To this day, the only physical trace reporter Matthew Frank has of his whistleblower is a white envelope he found sitting on...
Internet Security
Interviews and camera by Hunter D'Antuono and Tommy Martino, edited by Hunter D'Antuono, animation by Joshua James
In this edition of MJR's Person on the...
The Bouldering Boom of Western Montana
By Zeno Wicks
The Bitterroot Mountains on the border of Montana and Idaho have been a longtime secret of western climbers.
Since 1970, hundreds of long...
School of Journalism 100 Years Later
By Clancy Crismore
The first dean of the University of Montana’s journalism school, Arthur L. Stone, borrowed tents from Fort Missoula and pitched them on...
Digging on Deadline
By Lena Viall
Cuts and downsizing make serving as the daily record more than enough work for many small-town papers. The resources needed for long...
Kiss and Tell
By Paul Queneau
“I hurryed down the hill, which was about 200 feet high and difficult of access, to gaze on this sublimely grand spectacle...
Uniting Native American Tribes in Canada and Montana
By Kelly Conde
On a cold January day, Bryson Myers played the flute beneath a cottonwood tree on the edge of the Fort Peck Indian...
Standing Rock: Native journalists torn between passion and neutrality
Story by Jason Begay, photos by Olivia Vanni
See more of MJR's Standing Rock Coverage with this interactive web documentary.
Even if it weren’t for that...
Hungry Horse News Strives to Keep Community Close
By Megan Petersen
In 1965, Mel Ruder won a Pulitzer Prize for his almost-solo coverage of a 500-year flood in the small town of Columbia...