Mark Fix and Clint McCrae were much younger men when they first started fighting construction of a railroad that would condemn a swath of their farm and ranch land in southeastern Montana. It’s been ...

BILLINGS – About 25 people gathered Wednesday to hear and talk about why they don’t want federal regulators to approve the Tongue River Railroad. A 4,000-page draft Environmental Impact Statement on ...

BILLINGS – A group of conservationists and ranchers asked federal transportation officials on Friday to deny a permit for a long-delayed $400 million railroad that would serve a proposed coal mine ...

On Dec. 29, the Federal Appeals Court ruled in favor of Northern Plains Resource Council in its case challenging the Surface Transportation Board's analysis of the Tongue River Railroad. The court ...

A long-planned $400 million rail line that would haul coal from a mine near the Wyoming-Montana border was derailed by a federal board today. The Surface Transportation Board of the United States ...

The recent delay of the Tongue River Railroad (detailed in the July 18 article, “Coal railroad’s delay reflects hurdle for exports”) is a blow for out-of-state corporations but good news for Montanans ...

BILLINGS — U.S. coal industry efforts to tap into the growing export market are struggling to gain traction, as bureaucratic hurdles and resistance from environmentalists slow proposed mines in the ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Eastern Montana residents will weigh in this week on a proposed 83-mile coal railroad with the potential to usher in a dramatic expansion of mining in the state and increase ...

BILLINGS, Mont. - Montana fisheries officials say they've tentatively agreed to give the proposed Tongue River Railroad a 25 acre-easement through a major fish hatchery near the Yellowstone River.

Mark Fix and Clint McCrae were much younger men when they first started fighting construction of a railroad that would condemn a swath of their farm and ranch land in southeastern Montana. It’s been ...