BNSF owns nearly all the track in the state and splits a western U.S. railroad duopoly with Union Pacific, which checks in at 32,693 miles. A large chunk of the nation’s freight is moved by BNSF, ...

A committee out of the U.S. House of Representatives are looking at making some serious cuts to transportation funds. The House Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Development wants to ...

Montana Rail Link is a short-line railroad headquartered in Missoula and owned by billionaire Dennis Washington’s Washington Companies. Texas-based BNSF, one of the nation’s “Big 4” railroads, is ...

A BNSF derailment Saturday evening (Sept. 6, 2025) blocked the railroad’s main line on its Hi Line Subdivision, leading to ...

The Big Sky Passenger Rail Authority recently hosted a conference in Livingston’s retired railroad station. It focused on ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Eastern Montana residents will weigh in this week on a proposed 83-mile coal railroad with the potential to usher in a dramatic expansion of mining in the state and increase ...

HELENA, Mont. — An attorney for two people who died of a rare lung cancer argued on Monday for a jury to hold BNSF Railway responsible for pollution in a small Montana town near the U.S.-Canada border ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HELENA, Mont. (AP) — An attorney for two ...