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Flathead Valley Community College holds 58th annual commencement May 15
Commencement will take place in Wachholz College Center.
Blackfeet leaders vote to open Glacier's east entrance
Blackfeet leaders vote unanimously to open east entrance of park
FBI seeks Montana man after altercation with BIA officer
BILLINGS (AP) — The FBI is seeking a 36-year-old Montana man following a weekend shooting on the Crow Indian Reservation that authorities said left two people …
Campaign aims to help Columbia Falls toymaker
Wooden toys in all phases of completion covered a bench in Edwin Toren’s Columbia Falls workshop last week as he continues toward his goal of building 1,500 to…
Coaches needed for student writing program
Writing Coaches of Montana is hosting its second online training this year for community members who want to work with students on their writing assignments. Specifically, coaches help students think critically abo…
Kalispell council OKs various development requests
Third lot in two weeks sells at Old School Station
Law roundup: Dad deals with rambunctious quintet
Kalispell Police Department responded to a call from a passerby who reportedly heard a man screaming and pacing inside a residence and said she possibly heard children yelling as well.
GOP attorneys general question stimulus barring tax cuts
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican attorneys general from 21 states are questioning a provision in the $1.9 trillion pandemic rescue plan that bars states from using its funds to offset tax cuts.
Former IHS doctor sentenced for sex abuse loses pension
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Indian Health Service officials said Tuesday that a former pediatrician sentenced for sexually abusing boys on two reservations has been stripped of his estimated $100,000-a-year pension.
All Montanans will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccine April 1
HELENA (AP) — All Montana residents will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine on April 1, Gov. Greg Gianforte said Tuesday.
Man pleads guilty again for father's death; freed on bail
Less than five months ago, Kalispell resident Jason David Weldele was lodged in the Flathead County Detention Center after being charged in the arson death of …
January unemployment in Montana is down to 4%
HELENA (AP) — Montana's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped by 0.2 percentage points to 4% in January, Gov. Greg Gianforte said.
Montana man fined for yelling at neighbor in flag dispute
HELENA (AP) — A Montana man cited for disorderly conduct for yelling at his neighbor this month in a dispute over political flags has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor and was fined $100, the Independent Record repo…
Florida man gets 11 years for trafficking 78 pounds of meth
BILLINGS (AP) — A Florida man has been sentenced to 11 years in prison on a federal drug trafficking charge drug in a case that involved one of the largest seizures of methamphetamine in Montana history.
Report: COVID was No. 3 cause of death last year in Montana
State report: coronavirus was the No. 3 cause of death in 2020 in Montana.
1 killed, 1 injured in explosion at Butte truck repair shop
BUTTE (AP) — An explosion at a Butte truck repair shop killed one man and seriously injured another