In perhaps a sign of weariness in Montana, the state Emergency Coordination Center on Sunday felt compelled to issue a statement saying Fort Peck Dam is not in danger of failing in an effort to ...

But not far away, holding back one of the biggest reservoirs in the world and sitting on the Missouri River, is the Fort Peck Dam. At 21,000 feet long and 250 feet high, it's almost 80 years old ...

Perhaps the difference from 1933 to 2009, from a Fort Peck Dam to a current freeway interchange, was that Roosevelt’s Depression-era stimulus spending was so very obvious.

Fort Peck Dam was completed in 1940 after seven years of construction. It is the largest hydraulically filled dam in the United States. The structure received its most intensive test on June 15, ...

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 ...

HELENA — People hoping to snag paddlefish in the Missouri River above Fort Peck Dam this spring will find new restrictions, because the fish have not reproduced well during Montana’s ...

HELENA -- People hoping to snag paddlefish in the Missouri River above Fort Peck Dam this spring will find new restrictions, because the fish have not reproduced well during Montana's ...

Construction on the Fort Peck Dam began in 1933 and finished in 1940, employing 40,000 to 50,000 workers from across the state and country. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

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. The result ...

Pity the pike and perch of Peck. It looks like they won't even get tumbleweeds for habitat this year. Unrelenting drought has left Fort Peck Reservoir with just the last remaining bits of shallow ...

“Fort Peck Dam” will be shown free at 7 p.m. June 14 at the Babcock Theatre; June 15 at 7 p.m. at the Custer County Art & Heritage Center in Miles City; and at 7 p.m. June 23 at the Fort Peck ...

Major Clark Kittrell, No. 2 man on the Fort Peck Dam project. Margaret Bourke-White—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Caption from LIFE. Drinking in Ed's Place, Montana, 1936.