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Sep 17, 2007 2:07 AM CDT

Montana's Top 10 Dramatic Spots

(Newser) - It wasn't a scientific survey. But the results were dramatic. The Billings Gazette selected a few Montanans ranging from authors to fly fishermen to geologists to pick the most dramatic natural sites in this most dramatic state. Here's what they came up with:

Beartooth Mountains
Missouri River Breaks

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Cancer Cures Hiding in Poisonous Lake

Aug 28, 2007 6:47 PM CDT

Cancer Cures Hiding in Poisonous Lake

Scientists fish new microbes out of a toxic soup that kills

(Newser) - Two scientists may be fishing cancer cures out of an abandoned, poisonous lake, Wired reports. Don and Andrea Stierle are finding microbes in the green goup of an old Montana pit lake that don’t exist anywhere else – and happen to make compounds that inhibit a lung cancer and...

Fire-Ravaged Montana's Burning

Aug 5, 2007 7:32 PM CDT

Fire-Ravaged Montana's Burning

Governor declares state of emergency as highways close, residents evacuate

(Newser) - After over a month of wildfires throughout Montana, a fire that started Friday near Missoula prompted the governor to declare a state of emergency. No homes have burned, but 200 were evacuated and a 30-mile stretch of highway was closed. The state fire information officer estimated containment at 0%, "...

Montana's Terror Economy

Aug 5, 2007 5:05 PM CDT

Montana's Terror Economy

(Newser) - Out-migration has devastated the small towns of Montana, novelist Deirdre McNamer writes in an op-ed in today's Times. Salvation has come in the improbable form of Operation Noble Mustang. The US government program uses prisoners to train wild horses from federal land holdings for use by border guards patrolling for...

Bride and Groom Need
Not Attend

May 14, 2007 3:40 PM CDT

Bride and Groom Need Not Attend

In Montana, couples use stand-ins to tie the knot

(Newser) - Who says you need to be present at your own wedding? In Montana, where a World War II–era law allows "proxies" to stand in for the bride and groom, hundreds of couples from as far away as China are sending substitutes to the altar—or in this case,...

Travel to Big Sky Is Killing It

Apr 29, 2007 8:58 AM CDT

Travel to Big Sky Is Killing It

(Newser) - Big Sky Country is under siege from the carbon spewed by the planes and cars we use to get there, says Montanan Deirdre McNamer. She remembers the days (the 1950s) when it was not politically incorrect to throw litter into the vastness of the high prairie that she thought could...