Birney, Montana

Newly elected Northern Cheyenne tribal officials will be sworn in on Monday. The events begin at 9 a.m. with a parade on Cheyenne Avenue in Lame Deer.

Members of the Northern Cheyenne tribe elected a new president and vice president on Tuesday.

BILLINGS - The Northern Cheyenne plan to celebrate the recent designation of two battlefields as national historic landmarks.

The Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning hosts an artist's reception Sunday for Alaina Buffalo Spirit.

Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe members voted to give ousted president Eugene Little Coyote another run at office.

EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 640 PM MDT SUN JUL 6 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BILLINGS HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ...

HALF FEET. THE CLARK'S FORK OF THE YELLOWSTONE AT BELFRY AND THE TONGUE RIVER AT BIRNEY ARE NOW LESS THAN A FOOT FROM THE FLOOD STAGES AT THOSE STATIONS.

By Adam Tanner

BIRNEY, Montana (Reuters) - The log cabins and dirt roads on Jeanie Alderson's isolated ranch suggest little has changed since her great-great aunt and uncle first came to the rolling hills of southeastern Montana 120 years ago.

Yet with energy prices at record highs, she fears that interest in long-dormant rights to develop oil and gas resources underneath her land could badly upset the natural beauty and balance of the rugged American West.

"No one in 1916 or 1909 had any concept of strip mining or coalbed methane pumping out, and the devastation," Alderson said. "When you start pumping out groundwater, we think, 'Uh oh, there goes my livelihood.'"

From The K-B-L-G News Center... RIVER LEVELS HAVE BEEN SLOWLY FALLING, BUT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAYS THAT WARMER TEMPERATURES HEADING INTO THE WEEKEND WILL PRODUCE ADDITIONAL RUNOFF FROM SNOWMELT IN THE ...