The Montana Department of Environmental Quality is cleaning up the old McLaren Tailings Site in Cooke City, a move that should reduce heavy metals flowing into Yellowstone National Park via Soda Butte Creek.
It's a free-admission weekend at Yellowstone National Park, as the National Park Service is opening the gates to America's National Parks on June 5-6 as part of a national initiative instituted by Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar.
In a sobering reminder that Mother Nature can be dangerous and unpredictable in Yellowstone National Park, nine visitors to Old Faithful Geyser were injured by lightning late Tuesday afternoon.
National Park Service officials are searching for an Oklahoma man presumed to be lost in the greater Hellroaring Trail area of Yellowstone National Park, but there's an additional layer of mystery involved.