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Flathead County Library continues negotiations on property for new Kalispell branch
The northwest corner of the Kalispell Center Mall property, adjacent to Fifth Avenue West and Parkline Trail, is e…
Whitefish Council looks to increase impact fees
Whitefish City Council on Monday will consider approving a significant increase in the impact fees it collects on new development and in a related decision whe…
Two die in separate crashes Saturday
Two men from Kalispell and Libby died in separate crashes Saturday.
Past and present — Cayuse Prairie School marks 125 years of learning
On Sept. 23, past and present students and staff crossed paths and shared smiles in the hallways of Cayuse Prairie School during the district’s 125th anniversa…
Glacier High students inducted into National Honor Society
Seventy-nine Glacier High School students have been inducted into the school’s chapter of the National Honor Society.
Kalispell man replicates a stretch of local railroad history
Sitting in Steve Horvath’s Kalispell garage is an accurate model of the old rail line running through Kalispell, a project he started nearly nine years ago.
FVCC holds training on ponderosa pine trees
Flathead Valley Community College's Natural Resource Conservation and Management students are hosting a training for a new citizen science mapping effort to investigate the health of ponderosa pine trees in the Fla…
Presentation explores historic trails
Eureka author Darris Flanagan will explain why Kootenai Indians spurned today's highway and railroad passes when traveling to the buffalo country of the Great Plains during a presentation on Monday, Oct. 16.
FVCC events raise over $400,000 for student scholarships
The Flathead Valley Community College Foundation hosted its 16th annual fall Festival of Flavors events from Sept. 29 through Oct. 7. Between these and events …
Meet Ward 4 candidate for Kalispell City Council Sid Daoud
The Daily Inter Lake reached out to Kalispell City Council candidates running in the Nov. 7 municipal election. The information below was provided by the candi…
Anti-immigrant flyers provokes swift denouncement
Montana human rights activists say a known white supremacist group with chapters around the country is behind racist and anti-immigrant flyers distributed in the Flathead Valley this month.
Montana man to return home from hospital weeks after grizzly bear bit off lower jaw
A Montana man who was mauled by a grizzly bear that bit off the front of his lower jaw is ready to return home after five weeks in a Utah hospital, a physician…
Biden signs law allowing school-based hunter education
Kalispell schools can once again offer archery classes after President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that ensures federal funds can be spent on school hunte…
Education advocates sue 56 counties over property tax dispute
A coalition of education advocates filed a lawsuit Wednesday against all 56 Montana counties, asking the Montana Supreme Court to issue an emergency order curt…
Transgender, intersex Montanans challenge law defining ‘sex’ as binary
Attorneys for a group of transgender and intersex Montanans said this week that they have filed a lawsuit challenging a new law that enshrines binary, reproduc…
Standoff ends with arrest, felony charge
A 60-year-old man who engaged local law enforcement in an hours-long standoff after breaking into an Aspen Court home Oct. 12 is facing a felony burglary charg…