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Let ‘er buck: Local teen launches bull-riding business
When Korbin Baldwin isn’t in class at the vo-ag center, or on the wrestling mats at Flathead High School, he is li…
Ambitious program looks to document the depths of Flathead Lake and beyond
What began as a cooperation between Kyren Zimmerman and the Bigfork Art and Cultural Center last summer to explore a few sites in the lake has turned into the …
Polebridge Mercantile has been a North Fork outpost for more than 100 years
Polebridge is about 35 miles north of Columbia Falls along the mostly gravel North Fork Road. Sitting on the northwestern edge of Glacier National Park, the co…
Story of a hero — new book chronicles distinguished Montana veterans
Army Chief Warrant Officer Manford Lloyd Kleiv had a dream of returning to his hometown of Whitefish following the Vietnam War.
Focaccia great way to showcase produce
One of my favorite ways to showcase all this is a light, airy loaf of focaccia.
Log by log, middle school students build history lesson
The log cabin build is part of a homesteading unit the students are learning.
Glacier National Park volunteer bike patrol keeps cyclists safe
The bike patrollers are tasked with doling out park information, offering light mechanical and medical assistance, and reporting serious incidents to the park’…
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 …
FVCC taps into role-playing game’s popularity with continuing education class
A cooperative storytelling game, Dungeons & Dragons lets a group of players act as their characters as they complete quests, slay monsters, solve puzzles and, …
FVCC culinary students serve up savory bites at new pop-up restaurant
Something new is cooking at Flathead Valley Community College this month.
Columbia Falls Lions Club’s Easter egg hunt beloved tradition
Children run around, some with baskets in-hand, picking up eggs placed by the Columbia Falls Lion Club members for the traditional celebration.
A night at the Warming Center
Most nights, the Kalispell shelter fills up and has to turn people away to fend for themselves.
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…
Fighting back — Rock Steady Boxing members go the distance in battling Parkinson’s disease
By mid-morning Monday, members of Rock Steady Boxing — Glacier are stretching, punching, running, balancing, bobbing and weaving, planking and sweating their w…
Organizations partner to assist blind veterans in pushing to new limits on ski slope
The helpers are instructors with DREAM adaptive and the Whitefish Veterans Support Team, which partnered for the first time this winter to bring adaptive ski l…
Lighting up the night sky
The aurora borealis lit up the skies of the Flathead Valley last week to the delight of both photographers and sky gazers.