The Frontier Conference Basketball Tournament is back in Butte with 16 teams competing through March 2, filling hotels and boosting local businesses.

Two years ago things were looking up for America’s pandemic-battered Navajo Nation parks. Then their lifeblood, international visitors, slowed to a trickle.

North Dakota’s rugged badlands, wide-open prairies, and roaming bison make this often-overlooked national park one of the most surprising and rewarding places to explore in the American West.