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Kalispell Middle School teacher wins History Teacher of the Year Award
All the work tanning hides, building log cabins, panning for gold and garnets, grinding wheat and churning butter,…
California woman victim of rare predatory grizzly attack
A California woman who was fatally mauled by a grizzly bear in western Montana last summer was the victim of a rare predatory attack by a bear that had learned…
Small wildfires crop up across Flathead Reservation
Recent hot and dry weather prompted the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' Divison of Fire on Monday to elevate the fire danger to "high" on the Flathead Reservation, where a trio of small blazes were reporte…
Recounts results confirm Bukacek won utility board GOP primary
Ballot recounts conducted in four counties, the last concluding Monday, confirm that Flathead Valley internal medicine doctor Ann “Annie” Bukacek has won the R…
GOP approves platform calling for total ban on abortion, hand-counting ballots and adherence to the party line
The crowd at the 2022 Montana GOP Platform Convention Saturday was often hostile to Rep. David Bedey, a bespectacled, besuited Republican from Hamilton whose c…
Advisory committee deadlocks over school counselor ratio
A state education committee tasked with advising the Montana Board of Education on changes to school quality regulations deadlocked Friday as it debated whether to support abandoning a requirement that Montana scho…
Law Roundup: You drink, you drive, you lose
An officer coming to a stop at the corner of Oregon Street and Seventh Avenue East North waved to let another motorist go first. That driver turned right without using a turn signal. Intrigued, the officer followed…
Man accused of stealing wine allegedly bit store employee, spat at officers
Robert Eugene McCarty, 35, faces felony robbery and misdemeanor assault with a bodily fluid following his July 13 arrest.
Flathead County accepting applications for ImagineIF board vacancy
Flathead County Commissioners are taking applications for the newly vacant position on the ImagineIF Library Board of Trustees until Aug. 1.
Police laud actions of man who killed Indiana mall attacker
GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — A gunman who shot five people at a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall, killing three of them before a shopper shot and killed him, was …
3 killed including child in Blackfeet Reservation shooting
Three people — including an 18-month old child — have been killed in a shooting on Montana's Blackfeet Indian Reservation, authorities said Monday.
3-year-old among 6 killed in Montana highway pileup
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A 3-year-old was among six people killed in a pileup Friday afternoon on a Montana highway during blackout conditions caused by dust storm…
Two killed after being struck by Montana deputy's vehicle
A Montana sheriff's deputy has been placed on administrative leave after the deputy's patrol vehicle struck and killed two pedestrians along a rural highway, Carbon County Sheriff Josh McQuillan said Monday.
Fiery wreck on U.S. 2 leaves 8 hospitalized
A fiery wreck on U.S. 2 East and Walsh Road sent eight people to the hospital Sunday afternoon.
Recreational marijuana county and city opt-out votes have no end in sight
Kendrick Richmond moved from South Carolina to Philipsburg to start work at his friend’s dispensary when it opened in June 2021 and had no interest in getting involved in local politics.
Sparrow’s Nest manager aims to be positive influence for teens
Sparrow’s Nest aims to provide safe housing, support and resources for unaccompanied, homeless high school students in the Flathead Valley while they work towa…