Nate Hegyi
Nate is UM School of Journalism reporter. He reads the news on Montana Public Radio three nights a week.
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No drinking, no drugs, no tardiness, and they have to run a seven-minute mile. They're the Chief Mountain Hotshots, the all-Native firefighting crew from Montana's Blackfeet Reservation.
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A Southern Cheyenne woman found no solid data on the many indigenous women in the U.S. and Canada who have gone missing or been killed under suspicious circumstances. So she compiled it herself.
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Congressional Democrats and a public watchdog group are calling for an ethics investigation into the secretary over a land deal between Zinke's family foundation and oil and gas company Halliburton.
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Daniel Wenk was informed Tuesday that he will be replaced with a new superintendent in August. Wenk says the move to oust him months before he had planned to retire feels punitive.
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As huge crowds called for gun control across the U.S., counter-demonstrators gathered in Montana's capital, in Utah, Idaho and elsewhere. A mom in Helena warned: "It's a violent society, snowflakes."
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In a state with high gun ownership and fatality rates, a "March For Our Guns" is a counterpoint to the nation's "March For Our Lives" on Saturday.
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Fear of disease has kept dozens of bison penned in Yellowstone National Park, until they were discovered to have been released through a cut fence.
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To increase populations of the endangered black-footed ferret, scientists aim to save prairie dogs, a main food source. The biologists use drones and medicated peanut butter-flavored pellets to do it.
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An area sacred to the Blackfeet tribe could become a national monument in the home state of Donald Trump's secretary of the interior.
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Arby's has "got the venison" now and is marketing these new sandwiches to hunters. But an organization of hunters, anglers and conservationists has beef with it.