BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - The Montana hunt for bison that leave Yellowstone National Park opens on Wednesday, with the state providing nearly triple the licenses available last year. Shane Colton of the ...

BILLINGS — The five men said little as the slides, narrated by state wildlife officials, clicked along — revealing the dos and don’ts of hunting bison that leave Yellowstone National Park. Do bring a ...

The hunt allows for the sale of 25 bison licenses to be used between Nov. 15 and Jan. 15 and 25 more between Jan. 16 and Feb. 15. Sixteen licenses were assigned to Montana's American Indian tribes, ...

”I oppose this hunt because I support hunting bison,” said Commissioner Tim Mulligan, of Whitehall, who summed up many of the comments by other commission members. The commissioners who voted against ...

American Prairie is offering 24 opportunities to shoot a bison on its Sun Prairie property, with the added opportunity for five recipients to take a bison of any age. The annual drawing gives ...

BILLINGS, Mont. | Hunters killed more wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park this season than they have in decades, with the numbers driven by strong participation from American Indians ...

HELENA — Montana's wildlife commission agreed Thursday to consider canceling the state's controversial bison hunt set to start next week, and postponed the drawing for 10 bison licenses that was ...

A plea to halt Montana’s winter bison hunt has been denied by a D.C. District Court judge. In an order filed Nov. 11, Chief Judge Beryl Howell also ruled that Montana is the proper place to consider a ...

On a spring day in 1990, there was chaos near the border of Yellowstone National Park, and D.J. Schubert was in the thick of it, leading protesters who were trying to keep hunters from killing bison ...

GARDINER, Mont. -- Bison hunts in Montana once drew outrage, in part because game wardens led hunters to specific animals, which were sometimes grazing peacefully when shot at close range. On Tuesday, ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Hunters killed more wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park this season than they have in decades, with the numbers driven by strong participation from American ...