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Updated 6 months ago

Exploring Montana's backroads

If you want to enjoy this week’s Outdoor column, you must set your clock back 100 years or more as we explore a ba…

Updated 10 months, 1 week ago
Rock needs a new place

Sure the place was a little dusty, and the alphabetizing made no sense, but it made the hunt all that more potentially rewarding. Who knew so many records from France would end up in the Flathead?

Updated 10 months, 2 weeks ago
Thousands of teammates, pupils and Ws

Gary Evans, the unheralded (and unpaid) pitching coach for the Glacier Wolfpack, figures he’s played alongside a thousand different fastpitch players.

Updated 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Curiosity brings lives to light

The Great Falls native took off to teach in Shanghai motivated by the notion that “the world isn’t as scary as the nightly news makes it out to be.”

Updated 11 months ago
Pass the WD-40

It’s springtime in the Flathead! For the outdoor minded resident, we have a host of options for outdoor fun.

Updated 11 months, 1 week ago
At curtain, I’ll fake Manhattan

Flathead Valley opera fans have it pretty good.

Updated 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Lions 9 has roared into first season

There are some understandable and ongoing concerns from American Legion coaches about the addition of baseball as a Montana High School Association-sanctioned sport this spring.

Updated 11 months, 3 weeks ago
86th mission lasted 1,881 days

Tom was my grandmother’s favorite relative judging by the clippings she displayed wherever she lived.

Updated 12 months ago
2023 elk hunting regs in Montana

Montana is usually ranked as one of America’s best elk hunting states. Deer, antelope, mountain sheep, game birds and numerous other wildlife species are the annual targets of over 100,000 Montana hunters.

Updated 1 year ago
Slayer plays the mall

The first time I ventured to the community chess club in the Kalispell Center Mall, the adults outnumbered the kids and just a game or two was under way.

Updated 1 year ago
Flathead alum Osweiler seeks happy campers

Second-year Flathead football coach Caleb Aland figured it couldn’t hurt to reach out to Brock Osweiler, the former Braves quarterback who ventured onto an NFL…

Updated 1 year ago
Wolf management

Our legislators are busy at work trying to save Montana taxpayers some money.

Updated 1 year ago
Rounding up trophy runs of Wolfpack, Bravettes

Recency bias is a thing, so I have a couple things of note after watching the recent State AA basketball tournaments last weekend at the Butte Civic Center.

Updated 1 year ago
Kalispell, are you ready to walk?

Use it or lose it, right?

Updated 1 year ago
Hard Knocks, Golden Gloves under (sky) lights

Before he racked up a 9-4 record as a professional fighter, Jesse Uhde honed his skills at a place called Kalispell Boxing.

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
Tourism gives us the FITs

This time of year finds us hunkered down, but the travel pros are revving up, hoping to capture the FITs of the future.