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If cow belches and farts are so bad, why didn’t the vast herds of 60 million bison roaming the U.S. West before the 1880s ...

Charles Hoskinson, founder of Cardano and Input Output Global, is no stranger to controversy, vision, or ambition.

The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September ...

Read about a cow that escaped its farm to live with wild bison herd in Poland. Discover this unique friendship and adaptation ...

Crucial matchups were had, with an upset and a perfect record kept unblemished. There were also teams who now possess ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

For musicians, traveling without one's instrument has always been an exercise in deprivation. Our writer visits a place in ...

The Spearfish girls basketball team slip past Rapid City Central at the Howard Naasz Gymnasium. Elsewhere, No. 4-ranked Lyman and Tiospaye Topa picked up their 10th wins of their seasons.

Local Boy Scout Troop 1310 from Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church is always looking for a new adventure. Scout Master Peter McFarland found one Jan. 18 in Bloomington: hockey. Actually, hockey found ...

Wesley Sarmento was the first prairie-based bear manager at Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, a job that regularly put him ...