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PHOTOS: Flathead, Glacier class of 2026 graduation ceremonies
Photos from Flathead and Glacier high schools' graduation ceremonies held Friday, June 5 and Saturday, June 6.
Senate revives, and advances, charter school bills
Two days after rejecting a pair of charter school proposals, the Montana Senate revived both on Friday, passing the bills on nearly identical preliminary votes and breathing new life into one of the session’s bigge…
County board considers request for church on Airport Road
The Flathead County Board of Adjustment on Tuesday will consider whether a church can be constructed along Airport Road south of Kalispell.
Law roundup: Driver’s recklessness ‘homicidal’
An Escalade allegedly “trying to make bad passes” cut off a vehicle whose driver described the person’s recklessness as “homicidal” to Whitefish Police Department.
Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr sues over removal from House floor
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr asked a court Monday to allow for her return to the House floor after she was silenced and barred for chid…
First Republic Bank seized, sold in fire sale to JPMorgan
NEW YORK (AP) — Regulators seized troubled First Republic Bank early Monday, making it the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, and promptly sold all o…
Cold water plunge at center of veterans’ goal to assist others
Luke Opp and Craig Mayville, both Marine veterans, are now honoring the memory of that sacrifice with a nonprofit called The Frozen Chosen.
Whitefish looks to rezone gateway property
The approximately 11-acre property, recently annexed into the city, is located at the northwestern portion of the U.S. 93 and Montana 40 intersection.
Kalispell City Council to consider signing off on mobile home communities' grant applications
Kalispell City Council will vote to sign off on applications from two mobile home communities for federal funding to connect their properties to the municipali…
Law roundup: Goats go wild, harass man and eat screen
Two goats running wild purportedly tried to attack a man in Kalispell. The man
As Kalispell City Council prepares to expand Parkline Trail, users praise the multi-use path
On a beautiful day last week, walkers and local business owners praised Kalispell’s multi-use Parkline Trail as City Council eyes expansion of the repurposed r…
Local legislators react to Zephyr's silencing
Flathead Valley lawmakers had a front row seat last week to a sequence of events that thrust Montana into the national spotlight and ignited a debate about wha…
Women settlers brought community to the Flathead Valley
Women and their labor were vital to many aspects of life in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some accounts from history might have you believe they were not in …
Community briefs
Kalispell Women’s Connection meets; Dahlia sale; Flathead Democrats spring banquet May 6; Hopa Mountain accepting scholarship applications
ImagineIF Board continues looking at Gateway, but has stipulations
The ImagineIF Board of Trustees has decided to continue pursuing the Gateway Community Center as the new home for its Kalispell branch, but members still hope …
Law roundup: Female chapped about lifetime ban
A female was allegedly detained after stealing Chapstick and given a lifetime ban to all the sore’s locations.