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Flathead Valley Community College holds 58th annual commencement May 15

Commencement will take place in Wachholz College Center.

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Timber management project aims to mimic natural process

Forests regenerate on their own naturally, sometimes through wildfire. In 1929, the Half Moon fire burned more than 100,000 acres in the Flathead Valley and Gl…

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Sprunger tackles liquor license system in hopes of fostering entrepreneurship

Flathead lawmakers have introduced a raft of alcohol-related bills during the Legislative Session, but a recent addition to the mix is already generating a buz…

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
County commissioners commit to constructing septage plant

On any given day between 20,000 and 40,000 gallons of septage waste needs to be pumped from septic tanks and treated, according to the county, but with the rapid growth in the area suitable land for disposal of tha…

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Law roundup: Individuals find out where the beef is

Kalispell Police Department received a report that two girls who have a beef with another girl allegedly showed up at her location, punched her and threw her into a wall.

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Polson student D.C. bound after winning state poetry reading contest

As Wica-ta-wi Hoksina Brown inhabits the poem that won him the state Poetry Out Loud championship, he does so carefully, his voice almost conversational at fir…

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Tester calls on Biden to tackle selenium pollution

Ahead of President Joe Biden’s visit to Canada, U.S Sen. Jon Tester raised concerns pertaining to Northwest Montana in a letter sent to the White House, includ…

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Columbia Falls man booked in county jail following police pursuit in Kalispell

Officers detained Eric Scott Dolence on U.S. 93 South after the police pursuit began about 7:30 p.m., March 23.

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
US launches airstrikes in Syria after drone kills US worker

BEIRUT (AP) — A strike Thursday by a suspected Iranian-made drone killed a U.S. contractor and wounded six other Americans in northeast Syria, and U.S. forces …

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Bill creating Western Conservation Commission resurrected in the House

A push to consolidate two conservation commissions focused on Northwest Montana waterways got a breath of new life last week, but it comes with a catch.

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Suspended sentence handed down to rapist

Judge Robert Allison handed down March 21 a 10-year suspended sentence with the state Department of Corrections to Fabian Alexander Calderon for a rape charge …

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Applications open for NILE Merit Heifer program

Four-H and FFA members have the opportunity to be selected to raise a heifer and build their own herd through the Northern International Livestock Exposition (NILE) Merit Heifer program.

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Flu season tapering off in Flathead County, but other outbreaks still an issue

Hospitalizations in Flathead County are declining after a rough start to flu season, but there are many other outbreaks health department officials are keeping…

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Roundup for Safety funds orange safety vests for Hunter Ed grads

Flathead Wildlife works with Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks to provide each successful area graduate of the Hunter Education program with a hunter orange sa…

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Montana State to award honorary doctorate to Robyn Jones

Robyn Jones and her husband, Mark, who split their time between Whitefish and Fort Worth, Texas, made a $101 million philanthropic donation to MSU's nursing co…

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
Law roundup: Always pay the painter

Upset at apparently not receiving payment for a house painting job in a timely fashion, the contractor returned to the work site to splash “pay the painter” all over a home.