Legals for December, 14 2023

Lily Gladstone nominated for Golden Globe, named 'breakthrough entertainer'

Lily Gladstone is the anguished heart and compassionate conscience of Martin Scorsese's Osage tragedy "Killers of the Flower Moon." She embodies not just Mollie Burkhart but generations of Native joy, grace and pain. It's a performance that's thrust the 37-year-old Gladstone onto a much larger stage.

AA and A boys wrestling rankings

103 — 1, Cody Westlake, Belgrade; 2, Danny Green, Skyview; 3, Kellen Downing, Flathead; 4, Jackson Roby, West; 5, Keegan Hunt, Butte; 6, Aiden Sweat, Glacier.

Helena Flats superintendent facing assault charges involving student

Helena Flats School Superintendent Andy Maheras has been charged with misdemeanor assault following an alleged altercation with a 12-year-old student in August.

Man charged after allegedly ramming pickup truck in grocery store parking lot

Prosecutors brought Clifford Scott Fisher, 52, up on one count of criminal endangerment in the wake of the collision.

Whitefish man allegedly aimed rifle at job site worker

Charles James How, 35, is expected to appear before Judge Heidi Ulbricht in Flathead County District Court on Dec. 21 for his arraignment.

FVCC honors nursing graduates at pinning ceremony

Flathead Valley Community College’s nursing program will honor its current classes of 10 Associate of Science in Nursing graduates and eight practical nursing graduates during a traditional pinning ceremony Friday, Dec. 15 at 4 p.m.

Electric co-op asks members to review unclaimed capital credits list

Flathead Electric Cooperative Trustees recently retired $3 million in capital credits allocated to members in 2008/2009.

Law roundup: Pedestrian involved in hit-and-run

A newer dark-colored Jeep Cherokee allegedly hit a pedestrian and drove away without stopping. The woman couldn’t stop crying ...

Suspect in chase pleads not guilty to felony charge

Wearing an inmate’s orange uniform, 48-year-old James William Hill appeared before Judge Dan Wilson in Flathead County District Court for his arraignment last week.

Flathead County sued over denial of Bigfork subdivision

The saga surrounding a controversial subdivision proposed for Bigfork has moved into the courts.

Legals for December, 13 2023

Cascade County considers removing election oversight from clerk and recorder

Commissioners in a Montana county are expected to vote Tuesday on whether to remove election oversight duties from a clerk and recorder who expressed doubts about the integrity of the election process when she ran for office last year.

Two men indicted for killing, trafficking eagles from Flathead Reservation

Two men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Montana on Friday on allegations they illegally killed 3,600 birds, including bald and golden eagles on the Flathead Indian Reservation, then illegally sold the eagles on the black market.

ImagineIF Libraries director search underway as state loosens requirements for the position

Chair David Ingram told fellow ImagineIF Libraries trustees Thursday that the state Library Commission’s decision to loosen hiring requirements for directors at Montana’s largest libraries gives them “something to consider” as they search for a replacement for Ashley Cummins.

Food sovereignty movement sprouts as bison return to Indigenous communities

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Behind American Indian Hall on the Montana State University campus, ancient life is growing. Six-foot-tall corn plants tower over large green squash and black-and-yellow sunflowers. Around the perimeter, stalks of sweetgrass grow.

Kalispell speech and debate teams earn first and second at Western Regional

Glacier and Flathead high schools swept the competition on their home turf, securing the top two spots at the Western Regional Speech and Debate Tournament.

John Dennis Woods, 77

John Dennis Woods, 77 of Whitefish, Montana, passed in the comfort of his home and surrounded by loved ones on Dec. 8, 2023.

Legals for December, 12 2023

Bigfork area man arrested after shooting leaves one dead, two hospitalized

Authorities are holding a 49-year-old Bigfork area man in the Lake County jail on pending felony deliberate homicide and attempted deliberate homicide charges after he allegedly shot three people at a Ferndale home Sunday night, killing one.