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Whitefish pursuing grant for railroad overpass on East Second Street
The Whitefish City Council gave Public Works Director Craig Workman the go ahead to apply for a grant to build a $…
Popular trail guidebook updated for 20th anniversary
It was a simple idea that prompted Stormy Good Monod to compile a list of hikes 20 years ago.
Ambrozuk shares plane-crash details with 'Dateline'
The man who crashed a plane in Little Bitterroot Lake in 1982, left his girlfriend to drown and then disappeared for the next 24 years is the focus of the tele…
$120K lottery ticket sold in Kalispell
HELENA – The Montana Lottery has awarded $208,867 in cash prizes since September 26.
Whitefish Mountain sets record for pass sales
Whitefish Mountain Resort has set a new record for winter season pass sales.
Climate Smart tour Saturday in Whitefish
The nonprofit Climate Smart Glacier Country organization will hold its next event Saturday, Oct. 13, with a tour of innovative, climate-smart homes in Whitefish.
Flathead Lake in seasonal drawdown
The tribal corporation managing the former Kerr Dam hydroelectric project announced plans Tuesday for the seasonal drawdown of Flathead Lake.
Measure supported by health-care providers, opposed by 'Big Tobacco'
An initiative on the ballot this November, which would raise taxes on tobacco products to fund Montana’s Medicaid expansion, has galvanized health providers and engendered the most well-funded opposition to an init…
Couple taps into sustainable building trend
There is an old Iroquois philosophy that promotes the idea that the decisions made today need to be cognizant of how they will affect seven generations into th…
Rosendale solicits concerns from regional logging industry
Five men from the region whose livelihoods hinge on cutting timber met with U.S. Senate candidate Matt Rosendale Tuesday afternoon in a back room at Sykes, in …
Flathead man faces federal weapons charges
A Flathead Valley man is facing several federal charges after authorities said he illegally provided dynamite and an improvised grenade to others on two separate occasions earlier this year.
Partnership expands Stillwater Forest
The long-standing effort to expand the Stillwater State Forest northwest of Whitefish recently completed its final phase, stirring kudos from conservationists …
County drops case against shooting range
Gun shop owner Michael Krachun continues to assert that a controversial shooting range on private property he owns near Echo Lake in Flathead County has no commercial ties to his business in Bigfork and never has.
Costume store raises money for children's hospital
Though it has laughing, sinister clowns and howling skeleton cats, the Spirit Halloween store in Evergreen boasts a far less scary mission aimed at helping Mon…
Writing coaches sought for Col. Falls school program
If you can write a snappy sentence and would like to help students as well, you just might make a good writing coach.
Wind spreads fire near Foy's Lake
An out-of-control fire off Foy’s Lake Road in Kalispell endangered at least one home on Tuesday afternoon.