BOZEMAN, Mont. - Montana Rail Link officials stood before commissioners to talk about train traffic through town, and how it's increasing. "Our volume is going to grow" said Jim Lewis with the MRL.

President Donald Trump's efforts to help the U.S. coal industry at home are being offset by falling sales abroad.

Activists have protested coal trains coming through Missoula. The many projects that coal money support here are another matter. Coal is the source of the Big Sky Economic Development Trust Fund, ...

The number of freight trains loaded with coal that pass through Montana could significantly grow in the next several years, thanks to the planned development of new ports on the West Coast with an eye ...

BROADVIEW — Developers of a reactivated coal mine in south-central Montana said Wednesday they expect to start shipping fuel next week to Midwestern power plants along a new 35-mile rail line. The ...

After hearing from 46 speakers, the Helena City Commission voted 3-2 Monday night to send a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers, asking it to consider potential impacts on Helena during an ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Sponsors of a proposed railroad that would open Montana’s huge coal reserves to new mining must turn over documents about the project’s economics to a conservation group that’s ...

WEST OF NOXON — It must have been a horrific crash that rattled the August Sunday night in extreme western Montana. By daylight on Monday, Aug. 14, the wreckage of a train and the spillage of 31 ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - An empty Montana Rail Link coal train heading east near Clinton ran into a steel culvert filled with rocks Thursday evening. The train engineer told investigators it looked like a ...

BILLINGS, Mont. • Owners of a proposed railroad serving southeastern Montana's coal fields have applied to the federal government to build an 83-mile line carrying up to 20 million tons of fuel ...

BILLINGS, Mont. — A federal transportation panel has dismissed a proposed $400 million railroad that would have hauled coal from a mine near the Montana-Wyoming border. Tuesday’s action by the Surface ...

BILLINGS — Owners of a railroad that would open Montana's coal fields to increased mining offered a new route for the disputed line on Monday, which backers said would be shorter and affect fewer ...