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Updated 6 days, 8 hours ago

A legacy of success at FVCC

This is a moment to honor the determination, resilience and accomplishments of our graduates.

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Setting the record straight on energy and housing

Election season brings a lot of noise. Unfortunately, it also brings misleading mailers designed to confuse voters instead of inform them

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Dance the winter blues away

It took a lot of cajoling of my lazy self to travel up U.S. 93 on a gray weekend morning in mid-December, but I finally made it to Afrofusion. I may never miss it again.

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Letters to the editor Feb. 1

Letters to the editor Feb. 1

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Safety steps welcome, but not the final answer

Kalispell Public Schools has hired a private security firm to patrol its high school and middle school campuses in an effort to address gaps exposed in a 2022 safety audit.

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Immigration enforcement: Letters to the editor

Immigration enforcement: Letters to the editor

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Noem set the example for ICE

I was going to write a tongue-in-cheek article about how Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s mind works and how that influences the field operations of the ICE agents which her agency oversees.

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Letters to the editor Jan. 29

Letters to the editor Jan. 29

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Full Count: O'Connell the Pioneer finds way home

Mike O’Connell’s first steps toward becoming coach of the Kalispell Lakers American Legion baseball team began in a roundabout way: He was asked for candidates.

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Side effects of cutting out architectural reviews

At last week’s Whitefish City Council meeting, we passed an ordinance to remove our Architectural Review Committee (ARC).

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Letters to the editor Jan. 27

Letters to the editor Jan. 27

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Letters to the editor Jan. 26

Letters to the editor Jan. 26

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Giving Together: Caring for seniors

A senior citizen found himself staring out the window of his Flathead Valley mobile home, unable to step outside after a medical event left him in a wheelchair. What he needed most wasn’t medicine — it was a ramp

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Neighborhood defenders must also look to the future

Neighborhood defender — that is what I used to think of myself.

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Lawsuit puts Montana's homestead tax relief at risk

A faction of Republican lawmakers has put Gov. Greg Gianforte’s bipartisan property tax relief package in the crosshairs of a lawsuit that threatens to undo th…

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Legislature needs to reform the Public Service Commission

For more than two decades, the Montana Legislature has attempted to flip the switch on the inherent structural problems with the Public Service Commission, the…