Three federal biologists were held at gunpoint for several minutes by suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel after happening upon a large marijuana patch in a remote stretch of public land in northern Nevada, authorities said Friday. The men ...

Three U.S. Bureau of Land Management employees were held at gunpoint by suspected members of a Mexican drug cartel after chancing upon a large marijuana garden on a remote stretch of public land in northern Nevada, authorities said Friday. The BLM ...

Whether longtime friend or political foe, many people were saddened Monday by the sentencing of former Buncombe County Sheriff Bobby Medford to 15 years in prison on bribery charges. Dot Worley, of Leicester, thought the sentence was too harsh, given ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A legislative committee investigating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found she unlawfully abused her authority in firing the state's public safety commissioner. The investigative report concludes that a family grudge wasn't the sole ...

NASHVILLE–In Music City U.S.A., John McCain still calls the tune. While Barack Obama dispatched Jay-Z and Bruce Springsteen to pump up voter registration in the American Rust Belt over the weekend, the purveyors of hurtin' music, headquartered here ...

FRANKFORT — Steve Beshear cruised to an easy 18-point win over incumbent Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher, crushing hopes for the Republican Party to hold onto the governor’s office for a second term. With 100 percent of precincts reporting ...

THE TALES BEHIND THE TOTEMS The cover of the book, which pole carver Dale Faulstich, writer Joan Worley and aerial photographer David Woodcock teamed up to create. Photo by Avani Nadkarni = Dale Faulstich offers a peek into tribal heritage by AVANI ...

Frankfort — Most of the actual legislative activity this week occurred in the Senate which re-visited education and drug treatment legislation that chamber passed in previous sessions but which failed to gain approval of the House. Measures to ...

Formed in 1911 to preserve rural living, the Country Life Club of the Orchard Homes neighborhood is now the last of its kind in the nation, said Erin Turner, secretary of the Orchard Homes Community Association. She told members of the Missoula City ...