Local Business News
Explore Northwest Montana’s vibrant business scene. From Libby to Polson, we cover local entrepreneurs, economic trends, and community growth.
Blue Cow Car Wash expands herd into Evergreen
With this new innovation, the Blue Calf is able to accommodate dually pickup trucks and vehicles up to 8 feet tall.
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.
New downtown restaurant opens in the KM building
Her name is Red and she's the heart and soul of the new Red's Wines & Blues joint in the historic KM Building on East Second Street in Kalispell.
Making the summer pay at Big Mountain
One day you gaze at the mountain and realize there's more grass than snow up there, the lifts have stopped moving and the last diehard snowboarder beat feet at least a week earlier.
Technician keeps boat propellers spinning
Consider, if you will, the humble motorboat propeller.
Semitool exec focuses on Asia
Larry Murphy is sort of the Will Rogers of the computer chip industry: He's never met a job he didn't like.
Family ties
When relatives run the business, a few adjustments have to be made
New Super One preparing to open May 18 at Whitefish spot
With the promise of offering "the biggest and nicest produce in town," Super 1 stores is preparing to open its newest Flathead Valley store on U.S. 93 in Whitefish on May 18.
Let Freedom ring
C. Falls' new Freedom Bank opens in temporary quarters
Pain at the pump felt widely
Fuel prices are going up, up, up - and so is the sense of helplessness for those facing the escalating costs.