Jean Fischer, 90

Jean Frances Kowalski Fischer, 90, exited stage left on Dec. 10, 2023.

Flathead Business Watercooler

Business events, trainings and seminars

Search crews scour Kootenai River for missing kayaker

Search teams continued to look Saturday for a missing woman who disappeared while kayaking the Kootenai River in Northwest Montana earlier in the week.

Ronnie Wayne Walter, 66

Ronnie Wayne "Rerun" Walter, 66, passed away on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, after a lengthy illness.

Floyd Larry, 83, and Julie Ann Creekmore, 80

Floyd Larry Creekmore (Larry) passed away Dec. 27, 2023, in Kalispell at the age of 83. Julie Ann, his loving wife, and soul mate of 57 years, passed away at the age of 80, less than four months later, on April 15 at their home on Echo Lake.

Searchers find missing kayaker's body in Kootenai River

The search for a woman missing in the Kootenai River near Libby came to a sad ending Sunday morning.

Tait Humble, 46

Tait William Humble, 46, passed away June 11, 2024, at his home in Kalispell.

Local dinosaur hunters bring bones back to the Flathead

Aamon Jaeger’s friends and family tried to dissuade him when he started buying land in Arizona, sight-unseen, off of eBay in the hopes of finding petrified wood.

Phillips Gallery exhibit celebrates watercolor works

This exhibit celebrates the diversity and opulence of transparent watercolor in a variety of subject matters.

Kalispell man facing felony charges after pursuit

A motorist fleeing law enforcement on Saturday night crashed into a parked pickup truck on Kelly Road near Kalispell after Flathead County Sheriff's Office deputies employed a maneuver designed to make suspects lose control of their vehicles.

Legals for June, 14 2024

Sen. Regier challenging subpoena of records tied to creation of new PSC district map

A Helena law firm challenging the Public Service Commission redistricting map drawn and approved by Republican lawmakers last year is now in a fight with the sponsor of the bill that changed the map and the Montana Department of Justice over the communications the senator had regarding why he drew the map the way he did.

Jerry West, a 3-time Hall of Fame selection and the inspiration for the NBA logo, dies at 86

Jerry West, who was selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive, and whose silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo, died Wednesday morning, the Los Angeles Clippers announced.

Zombies: Ranks of world's most debt-hobbled companies are soaring, and not all will survive

They are called zombies, companies so laden with debt that they are just stumbling by on the brink of survival, barely able to pay even the interest on their loans and often just a bad business hit away from dying off for good