MISSOULA, Mont. — A housing option that saw decline following the Great Recession is coming back, and industry leaders in Montana say it will give buyers a better price than traditionally built homes.

The log cabin-style lodge on Swan Lake in Bigfork, Montana, was built for the daughter of early mining industrialist Cornelius Kelley, the so-called Copper King. There may not be gold under the ...

VICTOR,Mont. — Pioneer Log Homes has been around in for more than 40 years in the Bitterroot Valley. Pioneer Log Homes sales director Rob Ridgway says having national contracts with businesses like ...

HAMILTON - The Bitterroot Valley's once booming log home industry hasn't escaped the effects of the national downturn in housing. In its heyday, there were more than a dozen mills churning out log ...

For more than three decades, Jay Pohley has played an elaborate, real-life game of Lincoln Logs. He and his workers "handcraft" luxury homes one log at a time, first at their company's facility in the ...

It's one wicked driveway that leads up to Ennis Jordan's Mount Charleston retreat. Actually, it's, technically speaking, not a driveway as much as a road -- a skinny, one-lane, unpaved forest trail ...

In 2002, Rocky Mountain Log Homes moved the house-log-milling portion of its operation to British Columbia, after years of struggling to find enough available standing dead trees around the region.

New federal building guidelines have some western Montana log-home builders worried they can’t find logs big enough anymore to meet the code. But the adviser who helped interpret the new standards for ...

The contemporary cabin at 155 Buckaroo Trail in Bigfork, Montana, tips its cap to the Old West with its chinked log construction. Here’s a tip of the 10-gallon hat to the American past. This retreat ...