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The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are increasing the payouts for this year's Flathead Lake trout fishing tournament in an effort to entice more anglers and reduce the lake trout population.

A Washington, D.C., environmental group asked the Interior Department on Wednesday to investigate the operation of the National Bison Range near Missoula, saying it is plagued by a number of deficiencies.

For three years, Missoula artist and carpenter Greg Millar searched in vain for anyone who could identify a Native American dancer in a photograph taken by his friend, Patrick Clark. Millar had crafted a mosaic from that photograph.

The 10-member Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council has chosen E.T. "Bud" Moran as the new leader of the Flathead Indian Reservation.

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes want to add aggressive netting to an effort to reduce the number of nonnative lake trout in Flathead Lake.

Wildlife officials are watching the gray wolves living on the Flathead Indian Reservation and plan to leave them alone, as long as they don't kill a lot of livestock or big game animals on the tribal lands.

Thomas "Bearhead" Swaney, a former chairman of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, has died of cancer at age 78.

A conservation group sued the Interior Department this week over the government's plan to manage the National Bison Range on the Flathead Indian Reservation near Missoula.

Two conservation groups have joined with local, state, federal and tribal governments to try to keep the lakes and rivers of the Flathead Basin free of invasive aquatic species.

The state and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have agreed to continue negotiating a water rights agreement for the Flathead Indian Reservation.