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Kalispell Middle School teacher wins History Teacher of the Year Award
All the work tanning hides, building log cabins, panning for gold and garnets, grinding wheat and churning butter,…
Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade; states can ban abortion
The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overtu…
Trial date of man accused of raping teen pushed back
The trial date of a man accused of raping one girl and sexually assaulting two others at an underage Halloween party in Kalispell last year has been pushed back.
Montana’s namesake sub to be commissioned
The USS Montana is the second warship to bear the state’s name and is a Virginia-class, nuclear-powered fast-attack submarine.
Comments sought on timber harvest, trail expansion west of Whitefish
The Flathead Forest has released its Environmental Assessment for a forest project on more than 28,000 acres west of Whitefish that includes new trails at a po…
Black Ram project again underway
The Kootenai National Forest is moving ahead with the Black Ram Project more than three years after it was first announced.
Kalispell chamber survey shows most businesses feeling impact of economy
Nearly 80% of Kalispell businesses say they’ve experienced a negative effect from the current economic conditions, but just as many seem to have a positive outlook for the future of operations.
One of four bungling burglars pleads guilty
One of the four men arrested after breaking down the door of the wrong house in an allegedly pre-planned burglary entered a guilty plea in district court earli…
ImagineIF board accepts building for Bigfork branch
The ImagineIF Library Foundation has raised half of the $1.6 million needed to turn the Bethany Lutheran Church Ark Building in the new library, which will giv…
Study finds microplastic pollution in Flathead Lake
They’re in our oceans and rivers. They’re in the food we eat and the water we drink.
Columbia Falls outdoor company aids areas affected by Yellowstone flooding
RightOnTrek, a Columbia Falls-based outdoor company, joined with government agencies and nonprofit disaster relief groups last week to aid evacuees caught in f…
Senate deal raises hopes for reduction in gun suicide
A bipartisan U.S. Senate agreement negotiated after high-profile mass shootings in Texas, New York, and Oklahoma lacks gun access restrictions that advocates say are needed to prevent such attacks. But the deal’s f…
State agencies sound alarm on hazards posed by floodwaters
Staff with DEQ plan to continue monitoring areas affected by flooding to identify possible contamination. Officials warned, though, that sampling falls short o…
Yellowstone park reopens after changes wrought by flood
WAPITI, Wyo. (AP) — Several thousand cars, trucks and recreational vehicles were backed up in long lines at entrances to Yellowstone National Park as it partia…
Man dies in rafting accident on Middle Fork
A 43-year-old man died Tuesday after his raft capsized on the Middle Fork of the Flathead River in rapids below Moccasin Creek, the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office said in a release.
KMS Science Club earns state award for studying microplastics in Foys Lake
The club, made up of sixth- through eighth-graders, was a winner in the Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s Saving Money and Resources Today (SMART) …