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Updated 4 hours, 33 minutes ago

With reservations gone, shuttles key to Glacier crowd control

This season, no reservation will be required to drive what is considered America’s most scenic alpine highway. Eli…

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Letters to the editor June 22

Letters to the editor June 22

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
A fishing lure junkie

As you read this column about fishing, my wife, son and friend from Kalispell will be on our way to Northern Manitoba for some world class fishing.

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Rex, Pete and that elusive playing time

My iPhone, like many out there, is stock full of podcasts, and as I scrolled through the other day I found one I hadn’t finished.

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Letters to the editor June 20

Letters to the editor June 20

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Letters to the editor June 19

Letters to the editor June 19

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Governor puts politics over kids

During the 2023 legislative session, Republicans spent a lot of time on hollow rhetoric about protecting Montana’s children – but that rhetoric was empty, and now we’re seeing the awful proof of that.

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Legislature expanded access to affordable health care

The United States’s health care system is a mess of complex regulations and layers of bureaucracy.

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Traditional craft never gets old

When artist and Salish Kootenai College educator Frank Finley gave a talk at the Bigfork Art & Cultural Center last summer, he shared many ways to look at Native American art. One thing he said in particular caught…

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Election deniers are controlling local elections. What could go wrong?

Ever wonder what happens when conspiracy theory runs into reality?

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Education, treatment key to fentanyl epidemic

Statistics accounting for Montana’s fentanyl crisis have reached staggering levels.

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Gianforte sides with out-of-state corporations

If you are an elderly Montana veteran on social security in a mobile home park, Gov. Greg Gianforte does not have your back.

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Montana Republicans protecting freedom

This last election cycle many Republicans campaigned and were elected on the promise to enhance freedom in Montana.

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Letters to the editor June 15

Letters to the editor June 15

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Divisive rhetoric drives Montanans apart

Newspapers recently ran a column written by right-wing Montana politician, Sen. Greg Hertz, R-Polson, hitting the standard left/right divisive talking points about “woke” politics and tying any Montanan further lef…

Updated 2 years, 11 months ago
Letters to the editor June 13

Letters to the editor June 13