When the famous photographer Margaret Bourke-White made her iconic 1936 Life magazine cover shot of the still-under-construction spillway at Fort Peck Dam – the very first cover of the magazine – the ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved spending more than $42.9 million to repair damages to Fort Peck Dam after the record 2011 flooding that broke levees and swamped ...

The result, the Montana PBS documentary “Fort Peck Dam,” brings all the elements of this fascinating story together with interviews with folks who were there. “Fort Peck Dam” will be shown free at 7 p ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – Proposed repairs to bolster Montana’s Fort Peck Dam following epic flooding along the Missouri River last year would cost more than $225 million, according to cost estimates ...

BILLINGS - Telling the story in one hour of the herculean effort it took to redirect the longest river in the U.S. and construct the Fort Peck Dam was a challenge for filmmaker Scott Sterling.

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Federal officials in charge of Fort Peck Dam will start ramping up their water releases Thursday, with plans to reach record volumes in the next two weeks. Dam operations manager ...

Having already surpassed its previous record flow of 35,000 cubic feet per second set in 1975, Fort Peck Dam will gear up to what is expected to be its new peak of 50,000 cfs on Tuesday. That ...

FORT PECK (AP) -- The Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to restore $325,000 it diverted from the proposed Fort Peck Dam Interpretive Center and Museum, Sen. Max Baucus says.

billings — Eighty-five antelope met a watery end in Fort Peck Reservoir last Friday when the ice broke as they attempted to cross the lake a few miles southwest of Fort Peck Dam.

Fort Peck Reservoir entered March with water levels 5 feet lower than last year and 8 feet below what it was in 2024. The lake’s elevation as of March 9 was 2,222.23 feet. Releases of water from the ...

Whether you want to spend the day trying to catch record-breaking fish or you love to chase sunsets, I know of a little-known waterfront town in Montana that needs to be at the top of your list-Fort ...