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2 snowmobilers die in southern Montana avalanche

COOKE CITY, Mont. (AP) — Two Minnesota men died in an avalanche while snowmobiling in the mountains north of Yellowstone National Park, where about 3 feet (1 meter) of snow had fallen over the past week, the Gallatin National Forest…

Weekend storm brings late summer snow to Schweitzer

SANDPOINT, ID. - The first snow of the season is here, in the mountains at least.  It means the snow pack is getting started in the high country and at least one local ski area is getting started building its…

Bison injures woman in Yellowstone National Park

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A bison has injured a hiker in Yellowstone National Park. How the bison hurt the woman Sunday near a trail at the northern end of Yellowstone Lake was not known, but she had significant…

Kevin Costner saddles up for TV in plodding 'Yellowstone'

Kevin Costner has done some of his best work in westerns, and even with the History miniseries "Hatfields & McCoys" on his resume, his first TV series is something of an occasion. But "Yellowstone," a modern-day western airing on Paramount Network, gets bogged down in minutia and politics, and generally winds up being about as exciting as watching a zoning-commission meeting.