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Glacier National Park plows at Big Drift

Glacier National Park plow crews are at the Big Drift, which marks the last of the snow on the Going-to-the-Sun Ro…

Updated 1 month ago
Whitefish looks at next step in Armory Park upgrades

Whitefish City Council on Monday will consider awarding a construction bid for work at Armory Park.

Updated 1 month ago
Biologist reels in 36-year career with tribal fisheries program

Fisheries biologist Barry Hansen, 74, watched from a few feet away, arms crossed. He’s seen this same process unfold hundreds of thousands of times, but he can…

Updated 1 month ago
Kalispell Council to vote on zoning and subdivision reforms aimed at boosting housing density

Kalispell City Council will vote Monday on land use regulations aimed at promoting higher density development and streamlining the subdivision approval process.

Updated 1 month ago
PHOTOS: Paul Cauthen performs at Majestic Valley Arena

East Texas singer-songwriter Paul Cauthen, aka Big Velvet, performs with opening acts Radio Ranch and Crowe Boys at Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell on Satur…

Updated 1 month ago
Delivery of Inter Lake delayed this week

Morning delivery of the Daily Inter Lake print edition may be delayed in some areas this week.

Updated 1 month ago
Casa Luna brings a taste of Spain to the Flathead Valley

Casa Luna is a new restaurant from the Valera family, who own Casa Mexico in Kalispell and Vaqueros in Columbia Falls. Started by Francisco and Graciela Valera…

Updated 1 month ago
State biologists seek answers to rut in South Fork elk numbers

When Franz Ingelfinger took over as the Kalispell area biologist for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks four years ago, he kept hearing the same suggestion from …

Updated 1 month ago
Columbia Falls woman sentenced for drunk driving after argument with husband leads to charges

A Columbia Falls woman who ended up charged for drunk driving after calling the police during an argument with her husband in a grocery store parking lot last spring later copped a plea deal.

Updated 1 month ago
Kalispell man gets suspended jail sentence for allegedly pulling gun during fight

A man arrested for pulling a gun during a fistfight in Woodland Park last year later received a suspended jail sentence.

Updated 1 month ago
Public hearing set for second phase of Lakeside wastewater treatment project

The state agency has set a public hearing on the draft environmental assessment for the second phase of the project for April 23

Updated 1 month ago
Thinning project on Big Mountain moves forward

Flathead National Forest approved a 200-acre fuels reduction project that may disrupt access to some trails on Big Mountain this summer.

Updated 1 month ago
Hungry Horse woman featured at Teakettle Quilt Guild show

If Linda Crandall needs to take a break while she’s quilting, she doesn’t have to look far. Her Hungry Horse home looks down directly at the Flathead River, wh…

Updated 1 month ago
Family story of homesteading North Fork part of talk

Zach Block will tell the story of his grandfather, Dan Block, and grandmother, Gerane, who in 1946 left comfort behind to build a mink ranch near Trail Creek, …

Updated 1 month ago
Library of Congress asks Flathead Valley veterans to share story of service

The Library of Congress and Rena Flying Coyote Collective are traveling to Montana to conduct oral history interviews of U.S. veterans for inclusion in the Veterans History Project, a public research archive at the…

Updated 1 month ago
Marion School officials seek solutions after Flathead Library trustees discontinue book deliveries

Determined to retain access to the Flathead County Library, Marion School Board members are considering standing up a volunteer delivery service to keep the bo…