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Senior Spotlight: Glacier High School student looks to use science to help others
Knowing she wanted to help others, there was a time when Anitha Ravipati considered pursuing a career as a medical…
UM law school alumna donates African art collection to museum
She remembers drawing patterns with a compass and protractor as a child and papering her bedroom walls – when allowed by her mother – in burlap. Decades later,…
Sacred Waters ferments beer competition honor into expansion
The brewing company entered several of its beers in the 2024 competition also known as the “Olympics of Beer” and ended up with a bronze medal in the “best chi…
Small wildfire contained in Sanders County
Smokejumpers on Thursday, July 4 attacked a small wildfire that cropped up in a forested area of rural Sanders County.
Glacier Park home on market for $15 million
A home on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park has hit the open market. While other properties in Glacier have been sold in the past few years, none have had…
County officially takes over Columbia Falls' doughnut
The Flathead County commissioners on Thursday unanimously voted in favor of interim zoning for the former doughnut of properties around the city of Columbia Falls.
Whitefish City Council approves contested airport hangar
Whitefish City Council on Monday approved a conditional use permit for a 5,400 square-foot hangar at the Whitefish airport despite public opposition.
Local dinosaur hunters bring bones back to the Flathead
Aamon Jaeger’s friends and family tried to dissuade him when he started buying land in Arizona, sight-unseen, off of eBay in the hopes of finding petrified woo…
Survey shows a drop in the area’s homeless population, but shelter leaders aren’t convinced
The region’s homeless population declined over the past year, according to a survey conducted over the winter months, but nonprofit leaders say they have seen …
Groups claim Glacier Park’s bull trout project violates federal law
Glacier National Park biologists have undertaken an effort to stock mountain whitefish, west slope cutthroat trout and bull trout to Gunsight Lake, a high alpi…
Warnings issued in Montana ahead of dangerous heat wave
A sizzling summer week looms for Western Montana as a "massive" ridge of high pressure takes hold of the Northern Rockies.
Ranger injured and armed person making threats dies at Yellowstone, park says
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — An armed person who was making unspecified threats at Yellowstone National Park died and a park ranger was hospitalized …
Body of missing boater recovered from Flathead Lake
A dive crew on Wednesday evening recovered the body of a Missoula man who drowned in Flathead Lake last week.
Trustee opening on Kalispell Public Schools board
Kalispell Public Schools school board of trustees is seeking a candidate to fill a vacancy in the high school district representing Marion, Olney-Bissell, Pleasant Valley, Smith Valley and West Valley.
Montana’s Headwaters Tech Hub gets $41M grant from feds
The U.S. Department of Commerce and Montana’s U.S. senators announced Tuesday that a technology consortium known as the Headwaters Tech Hub will receive a $41 million grant to help build out jobs within the optical…
At Happy's Inn, the American spirit is always on display
Every now and then, one of the largest flags in Montana needs a makeover.