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Montana Life

Explore the heart of Montana through features on local culture, outdoor living, food, and community life. Montana Life captures the essence of our state—its beauty, character, and the stories behind the scenery.

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Tournament bridges generations and sharpens the mind through classic card game

Sixth, seventh and eighth graders played tricks and made contracts in a tactical game of duplicate bridge at the s…

Updated 7 years ago
Volunteers tackle trash left behind at popular national forest shooting site

A gloved hand plucked up bullet-riddled, tall-boy cans of a rotgut brand of beer.

Updated 7 years ago
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Flathead Land Trust is partnering with the Flathead River to Lake Initiative for an online auction of eight one-of-a kind wooden hand-painted canoe paddles.

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The one-hour film “Era of Megafires” will be shown at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, at the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts.

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Model shipbuilder devoted to perfect re-creations

His silver Labrador dozing at his feet, Allen Daffern, 70, deftly repaired the rigging of the HMS Leopard in his workspace, preparing the second of two ships f…

Updated 7 years, 1 month ago
Flathead musicians to perform on national stage in Harlem

Harlem. The name alone is enough to fill the mind with thoughts of cityscapes, nightlife, poetry, music and “soul food.”

Updated 7 years, 1 month ago
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The Literacy Center of Northwest Montana is having its Spellebration event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at Kalispell’s Gateway Community Center, 1203 U.S. 2 W., Suite 26.

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Newest director expands FVCC culinary program

The sparkling white floors and chrome counter tops of the instructional kitchen at Flathead Valley Community College got a dusting of flour and a splatter of o…

Updated 7 years, 1 month ago
Foundation led by Rollins woman tackles plastic 'epidemic' in Cambodia

About 5 p.m. every evening, the putrid smell of burning plastic penetrates the lungs of villagers in the community of Kampot in southern Cambodia.

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Bad Rock Settlement Museum showcases bygone era

Fate propelled Stu Sorensen into the grip of the wild Rockies more than 100 years late.

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Local microgreens farmers offer a harvest of nutrition in tiny packages

Local microgreens growers have come up with innovative ways to use their product.

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Columbia Falls Women’s Connection will host a Bunco fundraising party from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, March 30, at the North Valley Hospital Community Room in Columbia Falls.

Updated 7 years, 2 months ago
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Northwest Montana Posse of Westerners (a history organization) presents a program Monday, March 18, titled “Morton J. Elrod, Montana’s Pioneer Naturalist” by Tom Bansak, assistant director for the Flathead Lake Bio…

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Iron & steel The forging of an artist's life

The road leading to David Secrest’s studio above Somers was freshly covered with snow, unbroken by tire tracks. Yet on this sunny, cold February afternoon the …

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Ski program introduces kids to the slopes

The 3 degree temperature matched the age of the eager skiers who gathered at Whitefish Mountain Resort on Wednesday morning for their weekly lesson with the Sk…

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The 2019 Bob Marshall Wilderness Speaker Series presents a program titled “Wilderness Fisheries Management” from 7 to 8:15 p.m. March 6 in the Arts and Technology Building at Flathead Valley Community College. The …