Business
The latest business news from Northwest Montana and beyond. In-depth coverage of local enterprises, economic trends, market updates, and entrepreneurial success stories.
Oil prices keep swinging up and down, and so do stocks worldwide
Oil prices swung after a scare overnight where prices popped and then moderated, and the yo-yo moves kept stock ma…
Whitefish financial planner pens business book
Marge Fisher calls her new book a reality check.
Big Sky opens links to Boise, Calgary
Glacier Park International Airport will soon become an aviation mini-hub - an international one at that.
Local operation gives home-center lumber a makeover center
So, this is the weekend you decide to put up those bookshelves you've been promising your family since Memorial Day.
Welcome to Mabuhay
Today Glenda Hamilton lives 7,000 miles from her hometown.
How do you relieve gas pains?
As prices at the pump rise, some people are giving hybrid vehicles
Truck cranks out tunes and treats
For most people, the sound of an ice cream truck elicits instant stimulus-response behavior.
This business caters to the jet set
If you've been to 50 airports in your life, you've probably taxied past 50 fixed-base operations on your way to and from the passenger terminals of those airports.
Recycling efforts reduce fire hazard
Fuel reduction is one of those eco-concepts that doesn't receive a whole lot of publicity.
Barbecue recipe stays double super secret
Purveyors of barbecue are, on the whole, more secretive than the folks at the Central Intelligence Agency.
Airport plans five years out - and beyond
When you see a price tag of $410,000 next to "two brooms" on Glacier Park International Airport's new five-year capital improvement plan, don't for a moment think the airport is on some wild and crazy spending spre…
Turning swamps into ponds
Overgrown ponds are finding new life through an unusual excavation process devised by a couple of former Flathead Valley loggers.
Water park has to squeeze fun into a short season
A Montana summer without watersliding? Unthinkable.
There s no business like ranch business, dude
Machine slices stone into veneer
Dave Wilkins is not a stonemason. He has never wanted to be a stonemason and he has no plans to become one in the future.
Flathead Lake Monster soda marketed nationally
The Flathead Lake Monster will get national exposure in a soda-pop deal cooked up between a Kalispell marketer and a national beverage company.