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Giving Together: Turning Tax Season into Opportunities for Students

On a spring morning in Kalispell, a group of elementary students huddle around a table, testing a small robot they…

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
Full Count: 'Only Game in Town' turns 20

This coming Sunday at Bozeman’s Historic Ellen Theatre, at 1:30 p.m. in its upstairs ballroom, Wally Kurth and Montana PBS will present a viewing of Class C: The Only Game in Town.

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
Giving Together: Montanans take care of each other

Those of us lucky enough to call Montana home know that our state is like no other.

Updated 1 year, 1 month ago
Full Count: Vegas lights and press box fights

The passing of Norm Clarke, the eye patch-wearing Terry native who spent a lifetime in newspapers, has brought a flood of eulogies and remembrances from across the state and country.

Updated 1 year, 2 months ago
Feeling down? Make a run for it

Habitués of higher elevations have to try harder for happy.

Updated 1 year, 2 months ago
Public access to private timber land

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks is again asking for public comments on the second phase of a conservation easement project with the Green Diamond Company, a timber company.

Updated 1 year, 2 months ago
Full Count: Missing out on magic of Divisionals

There are plenty of compelling reasons why there are no divisional basketball tournaments in Class AA. Dustyn Franchini-White, Avery Chouinard and I have our reasons why there should be.

Updated 1 year, 2 months ago
Small talks buck algorithms

Every time I go out for a cultural happening, I hear the echo of Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray from his Bigfork talk last fall: “What a triumph of decision making that we are all here together instead of doom…

Updated 1 year, 2 months ago
Full Count: Fulfilling trip to Western B for Trojans

When Cody Orr was asked the last time the Troy boys basketball team made divisionals, he understandably hit a bit of a dead zone.

Updated 1 year, 2 months ago
State should follow Elon Musk’s lead on simplifying hunting regs

Wow, can you believe the beautiful weather we had last weekend? My truck thermometer registered 50 degrees.

Updated 1 year, 2 months ago
Giving Together: Kiita Foundation scholarships

Spring is just around the corner, and soon more than 1,000 students will be graduating from high schools across the Flathead Valley and embarking on the next chapter of their lives. For many local students who plan…

Updated 1 year, 2 months ago
Column: Painting a pretty volleyball picture

Jaimie Nelson might seem like an unlikely pick to be Glacier High’s next volleyball coach, in that it’s her first varsity coaching job at the age of 48.

Updated 1 year, 3 months ago
Heeding the call of the wild

As Flathead Wildlife’s Jim Vashro introduced the presenter for the group’s gathering last month in a meeting room on North Meridian Road, a low rumble rose from the back of the room.

Updated 1 year, 3 months ago
Elk foundation champions hunting, conservation causes

This Saturday, Feb. 15, will be one of the most fun nights of the year for Kalispell area hunters.

Updated 1 year, 3 months ago
Column: Sherwood caught the bug early

Basketball fans in Kalispell should remember that George Sherwood was a centerpiece of the Flathead Braves team that made a surprising run at the 2012 State AA championship.

Updated 1 year, 3 months ago
The truth is in here

Truth truly is stranger than fiction. One institution stocks plenty of both.