Multiple fires continue to roast region

Stoked by winds and lightning, wildfires bloomed across the region last week. The Thompson Fire in Glacier National Park is the largest, racing from about 1,900 acres a week ago to 13,680 acres.

Glacier bans backcountry campfires

With continued hot and dry conditions, Glacier national park has banned all campfires in backcountry campgrounds. Fires will be allowed in designated sites in front country campgrounds, however.

Fires didn't put much of a dent in visitation

Fires or not, visitation to Glacier National Park hummed along at a record pace, with 11 percent more visitors overall this year than last year.

Irate judge gives feds 21 days to issue plan for leases

A federal judge has had enough in a longstanding delay on a Louisiana's oilman's attempt to explore the Badger-Two Medicine region for oil and gas.

Record crowds in Glacier

The dry spring wasn't all bad. Glacier National Park's visitation zoomed to record levels in June as the Going-to-the-Sun Road opened nearly a month earlier than last year.

Author Sherwood dies

A noted West Glacier author has died. James Webster Sherwood III, 79, a lifetime summer resident of Glacier National Park and West Glacier died in his sleep Dec. 25, 2014, his wife, Karyn told the Hungry Horse News.

Park flies water tank to Granite Park

Glacier National Park is known for its cascading streams and sky blue lakes. But even the Park isn't immune to the abnormally hot and dry summer of 2015.

Park holds Instameets

Glacier National Park is hosting a new "Instameets" program where participants go on a hike and then are encouraged to share their photos on social media like Twitter and Instagram using #Glacier NPS. The hikes are…

Many Glacier Hotel celebrates Centennial July 4

July 4 marks the centennial of the Many Glacier Hotel and folks can take tours and listen to homegrown music as part of the celebration.

Volunteers critical to Glacier in summer months

Last week in Glacier National Park the birds were singing, a light breeze was blowing and a host of volunteers were trimming stalks of sedge in the Park's nursery.

Glacier is artist's backyard

Glacier National Park is home ground for artist Allen Jimmerson.

Dog eating bear in Glacier Park euthanized

Glacier National Park rangers captured and killed a marauding black bear at the head of Lake McDonald on June 1 after it killed and ate a 15-pound pet shih-tzu.

Bump in Park fees coming this fall and winter

Starting this fall, visitors to Glacier National Park will have to pay more to get in, but not as much as originally proposed.

Businesses, Glacier, talk Sun Road solutions

Glacier National Park is looking to ease visitor pressure on the Going-to-the-Sun Road, and it listened to Canyon and Columbia Falls business owners on ways to do just that during a meeting last week.

Park's Camas Road placed on historic registry