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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…
Doula provides support during pregnancy and childbirth
After what she described as a positive labor and delivery with her first, Anna Kreider decided to become a doula to help women have the same kind of empowering…
Road trip food — Author creates cookbook for motorcycle travel
“The Motorcycle Camp Cookbook” officially released a few months ago. The self-published book includes over 65 single-serving recipes that redefine traditional …
Columbia Falls campground provides vintage experience
The brightly colored interiors and exteriors of the campers paired with the campground’s location in the heart of Columbia Falls, provide a unique camping expe…
Contingency plan forms as fairgrounds waits for grandstand inspection
Constructed in the 1930s, the grandstands at the Flathead County Fairgrounds have played host to thousands of spectators throughout the decades.
FVCC hosts Makerspace workshops
Each workshop is held on campus in Kalispell in the Broussard Library and Learning Commons Makerspace area.
Flathead County Library begins summer reading program
Beginning June 10, children and teens can sign-up and pick up a game board at any library location that offers reading and learning challenges, as well as a li…
Efforts continue to merge Logan Health, Billings Clinic hospital systems
Integrating the clinical services and technology systems at Logan Health-Billings Clinic is a top priority for new leadership at the hospital system.
Republican voters in Lincoln County drop incumbent commissioner Josh Letcher
Lincoln County voters denied District 3 Commissioner Josh Letcher a second term and also voted down an initiative to create an independent library district in …
Life sentence given to man convicted for running down trooper
Life without parole was the sentence Flathead County District Court Judge Danni Coffman delivered to Jason Allen Miller on Wednesday afternoon in the Lincoln C…
Relocation fund established for displaced mobile home residents
In response to the mass eviction notices issued to residents of a mobile home park in Evergreen, Whitefish Community Foundation has awarded a $45,000 Emergency Response Grant to NeighborWorks Montana to help displa…
Tranel outlines federal housing plan
Democratic congressional candidate Monica Tranel last month joined a chorus of calls to ban hedge funds from buying up homes as a way to alleviate the housing …
Lynch, Swanson, Wilson and Bidegaray advance to Montana Supreme Court general election
The four most prominent candidates for the Montana Supreme Court all advanced from their primary elections Tuesday evening.
Northwest Montana United Way to start relocation assistance program for homeless
The Northwest Montana United Way is launching a program to connect homeless people in Flathead County to family, friends and assistance programs outside of the…
Court gives neighbors say in Glacier National Park inholder lawsuit
A group of West Glacier residents have been given intervenor status in a federal case involving a private home allegedly built illegally on the banks of McDona…
Alleged robber held up three at gunpoint
A Flathead Valley man is behind bars after allegedly holding up at gunpoint several people outside a Whitefish area bar Monday night.