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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,…
Major housing development proposed near Columbia Falls
A developer is proposing a major subdivision on farmland east of the Flathead River and just outside Columbia Falls.
Rollins man linked to Whitefish shooting back in jail
Wilson Dane Huyser, 33, is being held in the Flathead County Detention Center on a $150,000 bond after prosecutors amended the charges against him to include f…
Man accused of threatening bar staff, deputies pleads not guilty
Kyle Ross Burglund, 41, appeared in Flathead County District Court beside attorney Sean Hinchey for his June 23 arraignment, pleading not guilty to assault wit…
Flathead Lake over full pool mark
Flathead Lake was more than half a foot over its full pool mark Friday, and was projected to stay at that level through the weekend.
Overturn of Roe shifts Montana abortion debates to state courts
Montana’s elected officials reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Friday overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, which had made abortion legal nationwide for nearly 50 years.
North Dakota farmland purchase tied to Gates stirs emotion
FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The sale of a couple thousand acres of prime North Dakota farmland to a group tied to Bill Gates has stirred emotions over a Depression-era …
Montana leaders react to Roe V. Wade decision
Montana’s federal and state elected officials offered mixed reactions Friday to the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and end constitutional pro…
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overtu…
Trial date of man accused of raping teen pushed back
The trial date of a man accused of raping one girl and sexually assaulting two others at an underage Halloween party in Kalispell last year has been pushed back.
Montana’s namesake sub to be commissioned
The USS Montana is the second warship to bear the state’s name and is a Virginia-class, nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine.
Law roundup: Between rocks and a hard place
A property owner in the Columbia Falls area told deputies with the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office that the individual who held an easement on a road running through his land lined it with rocks last year. The pro…
Comments sought on timber harvest, trail expansion west of Whitefish
The Flathead Forest has released its Environmental Assessment for a forest project on more than 28,000 acres west of Whitefish that includes new trails at a po…
Black Ram project again underway
The Kootenai National Forest is moving ahead with the Black Ram Project more than three years after it was first announced.
Kalispell chamber survey shows most businesses feeling impact of economy
Nearly 80% of Kalispell businesses say they’ve experienced a negative effect from the current economic conditions, but just as many seem to have a positive outlook for the future of operations.
One of four bungling burglars pleads guilty
One of the four men arrested after breaking down the door of the wrong house in an allegedly pre-planned burglary entered a guilty plea in district court earli…