Montana Life
What's happening in Montana lifestyle news? For information and details regarding daily life and lifestyle in local and statewide Montana news, see our articles below.
Seasonal sounds: Brass instruments star of unique Christmas concert
Musicians played tubas, euphoniums and baritone in a unique roughly one-hour concert performing at the Red Lion Ho…
Fire fighter: Woman builds flame-resistant home on North Fork property
Molly Shepherd watched that July night from her one-room cabin as lightning struck repeatedly in the Whitefish Range west of her property near Trail Creek.
Self-taught artist finds inspiration from nature
In a yurt along Montana 206, a local potter puts her spin on traditional art.
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.
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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.
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…
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.”
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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.
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…
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.
Bad Rock Settlement Museum showcases bygone era
Fate propelled Stu Sorensen into the grip of the wild Rockies more than 100 years late.
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.
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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…
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 …