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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,…
Gov. Gianforte launches Montana housing advisory council
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte issued an executive order Thursday creating a “housing advisory council” tasked with suggesting ways for the state “to increase the…
Officials suggest pipeline company hid problems after spill
U.S. prosecutors suspect a Wyoming company of potentially concealing problems with a pipeline that broke in 2015 and spilled tens of thousands of gallons of cr…
US solicits help as it defines old growth and mature forests
U.S. officials on Thursday solicited outside help as they craft definitions of old growth and mature forests under an executive order from President Joe Biden.
Hybrid school academy expands
The school opened in January 2021 and has since added Minnesota and Pennsylvania locations.
Save Farmland nonprofit partners with Under the Big Sky Festival
The five-year partnership makes Save Farmland the official nonprofit of the event, working closely with festival leadership to create awareness and money-raisi…
Under the Big Sky gives local talent a chance to shine
Headed back to stage at Under the Big Sky this weekend, the Susan O’Dea and Nick Spear are ready to try out new work with the backing of their band, odes writt…
Law roundup: Marauding chickens leaves neighbor clucking
A flock of mischievous chickens left a Kalispell area man with more than just ruffled feathers. He told the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office that the rogue poultry routinely came onto his land from a neighbor’s pro…
Dems want $1 billion of Montana’s budget surplus spent on housing, childcare and mental health
Legislative Democrats said Wednesday they want to spend Montana’s sizable budget surplus on a billion-dollar effort to help residents who are struggling with the cost of housing, property taxes, childcare and menta…
Former Oath Keeper says conversation at Eureka grocery store was the ‘last straw’
Jason Van Tatenhove’s involvement with the far-right paramilitary group the Oath Keepers started and ended in Montana.
Ivana Trump, first wife of former president, dies at 73
Ivana Trump, who formed half of a publicity power couple in the 1980s as the first wife of former President Donald Trump and mother of his oldest children, has…
Prosecutors: Shotgun-toting man made death threats
Deputies with the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office arrested Aaron Douglas Glenn Kupka, 36, after responding to a report of a confrontation involving guns about…
Law Roundup: Neighbors give visiting Californian a not-so-warm welcome
A California man in a short term rental in the West Glacier area apparently made the mistake of revealing his home state to his neighbors. They had begun harassing him, both for being from the Golden State and beca…
Flathead National Forest lost Facebook privileges during avalanche season
Flathead National Forest was without its main portal for pushing safety information to the public for six months at the beginning of 2022 after losing its abil…
Kalispell school board takes look at preliminary budget
The Kalispell Public Schools board got a first look at the preliminary budget for the 2022-23 school year on Tuesday.
ImagineIF Kalispell branch sees decrease in police calls with security upgrades
Illegal activity, like drug use and sex, has plagued the second floor of the ImagineIF Library in Kalispell for months, but officials say the problem is abatin…