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.
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…
Boom-town bustle of Martin City
Except for the hubbub of Cabin Fever Days in February and the upsurge in traffic during the summer and hunting seasons, Martin City is a bastion of peace and q…
Abbott Valley Homestead blends past with present
Not all that much has changed in the wooded Abbott Valley east of Martin City since a trapper named Abbott ventured there in the 1890s to put down a homestead …
Custom bike builder qualifies for Swiss show
Motorcycles in progress sit on elevated racks inside Hawke Lawshe’s bike shop, Vintage Technologies, in Columbia Falls. Like many mechanical shops of its kind,…
The soulful coo of mourning doves
What better bird to feature in the month of St. Valentine than our native lovebird, the mourning dove, Zenaida macroura. The mourning dove’s courtship behavior…
Snowmobile ride benefits mental-health advocacy group
For the 27th year running, a band of intrepid snowmobilers will ride their way across Montana to raise funds and awareness for the National Alliance on Mental …
Hockaday brings art lessons to home-schoolers
A brother and sister ran down the steps into the basement classroom of the Hockaday Museum of Art, unsure of what their weekly art class had in store for them …
PHOTO GALLERY: Best images of 2017
A selection of the best Daily Inter Lake photos from 2017.
Schools utilize therapy dogs to enhance learning environment
Sometimes all it takes to relieve stress, calm down, even improve reading skills is a furry friend to pet or hug.
Teamwork focus of new strength-training gym
The energy is palpable inside Beast Athletes.
High-fives and hard hits at Flathead Roller Derby league
Faces painted for war under their helmets and fishnet tights hugging their legs under kneepads, a team of women ranging in shape and size take to an oval track…
Bigfork Christmas tree farm a one-man operation
At 80 years old, Don Schiltz lumbers across an acre lot lugging a fresh-cut, 50-pound fir tree, the product of at least 10 years’ worth of constant attention a…
Limp in, leap out
An even 10 soakers luxuriate in the hot mineral waters at Symes Hot Springs Hotel on a chilly Monday afternoon. Gray skies and large, plopping rain drops don’t…
Lakeside was once home to U.S. Air Force base
Tony Adrignola and Al Luna say they always get the same response when they tell people there used to be a U.S. Air Force base in Lakeside.
Living off nature's bounty
I have often wondered what my great-grandparents’ first thoughts were when they looked out on the expanse we now call the Flathead Valley. Imagine gazing at mo…
'GUTS AND FORTITUDE'
Taylor Reed isn’t your average amateur boxer.