When Mikaela Balkind trained to become a wildland firefighter, she knew she was signing up for a physically- and ...

Sen. Steve Daines is praising the federal government for making a pay raise for wildland firefighters permanent.Daines ...

The Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation reports 32 firefighters from Montana are assisting with wildfire ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. SEATTLE (AP) — Wildland firefighters will keep a four-year-old pay hike under a GOP-led spending ...

In some cases, the new, permanent pay scale for federal wildland firefighters will give frontline employees a more than 30% pay raise.

Credit: Sheila Lockwood / Noozhawk photo Jorge Hurtado, a wildland firefighter and local author, has developed a children’s book series designed to educate kids on fire safety and the various ...

The team includes firefighters from the Plains-Paradise Rural Fire District and crews from other Montana agencies.

Wildland firefighter advocates are celebrating the permanent pay raises included in a larger funding bill passed by Congress ...