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Sharp cold front to drop snow on Glacier Park
A winter weather advisory was issued for Glacier National Park beginning Wednesday night as a potent front out of …
Winery on track to open in Col. Falls next year
While their vineyard planted last year on Elk Park Road matures toward its first harvest season expected in a couple of years, Dan Murphy and his wife Rebecca hope to open their new winery in Columbia Falls by Febr…
Kalispell family shares faith through handmade rosaries
For 17 years, Katie Donahue of Kalispell has worked at her table, alongside her children as they’ve grown, teaching and sharing with them the art of rosary-mak…
Memo to hunters: Griz could be anywhere in Western Montana
The bottom line: Hunters in Montana’s western half should be prepared to encounter grizzly bears, even if grizzlies aren’t known to customarily inhabit the are…
Kalispell homeless education liaison first to receive national award
Nichole Heyer has been named the first Homeless Education Liaison of the Year by the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth.
Man with Kalispell ties endures hurricane aboard ship
James Barker experienced Hurricane Michael’s fury aboard the FSF-1 Sea Fighter.
Absentee ballot mailings elicit confusion
A voter mobilization campaign sowed confusion and consternation this week in Flathead County while intending to help get out the vote for Democratic incumbent …
A game of griz and mouse in the North Fork
Coyotes and fox, even wolves, are well-known as mousers. But a grizzly?
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…