The software giant makes a move that some considered inevitable and others considered a reversal of a longtime commitment not to compete with its software partners. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech ...

As the prairie landscape steadily vanishes, the root cause is often overshadowed by the spotlight on industrial practices, with experts pointing to agriculture and energy development as the primary ...

Driving north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, an extraordinary landscape comes into view. Trees disappear and an immense landscape of grass emerges, undulating in the wind like a great, green ocean. This is ...

It was not always certain that bison could rebound. Once numbering in the tens of millions, they dominated the Great Plains landscape until the late 1800s, anchoring a remarkable ecosystem that ...

It’s a sweltering summer day in central Montana. Here, in the heart of Big Sky country, no matter how hot it gets, blue jeans and cowboy boots are the norm, to protect against the whipping wind and ...

There couldn’t be a more fitting exhibition for the Great Plains Art Museum than “Narrow All Horizons,” its just opened survey of Plains landscape painting and photography. Drawn from its permanent ...

At the end of the 19th century, historian Frederick Jackson Turner famously announced the closing of the American frontier. The Homestead Act had lured settlers with offers of free land and boosted ...

Little is known about the macrohabitat associations of rodents and shrews in prairie landscapes because of the logistic constraints of conventional trapping. We used the remains of 60,972 small ...

Microsoft announced plans to purchase Great Plains Software for $1.1 bn. Great Plains is a developer of small to midsized business applications, including payroll, human resource, accounting, customer ...

Driving north of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, an extraordinary landscape comes into view. Trees disappear and an immense landscape of grass emerges, undulating in the wind like a great, green ocean. This is ...