Daily Inter Lake publisher Rick Weaver announces retirement

Rick Weaver, the longtime regional publisher at Hagadone Media Montana, will retire at the end of January.

Whitefish Theatre Co. holds auditions for ‘Collected Stories’

The Whitefish Theatre Co. is holding auditions for their third black curtain theater production of the 2022 to 2023 season.

Arts and entertainment news

Arts and entertainment news

Conservation easements mean better forest management

Having lived 80 years in northwestern Montana, I’ve seen a lot of change.

Letters to the editor Jan. 5

Letters to the editor Jan. 5

GOP's McCarthy voted down time after time for House speaker

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans flailed through a long second day of fruitless balloting Wednesday, unable to either elect their leader Kevin McCarthy as House speaker or come up with a new strategy to end the political chaos that has tarnished the start of their new majority.

Case of foot found in Yellowstone hot pool is still murky

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A missing man whose foot was found floating in a Yellowstone hot pool had no suicide note in his car — though investigators have found his laptop computer, notebooks and handwritten poems, according to National Park Service documents released Tuesday.

Former Libby Police officers say mismanagement led to mass resignation

Two of the three former Libby police officers who resigned on the same day late last year went public recently with their motivations for leaving the department.

Lake County Dispatch Center receives upgrades

“These people are the true first responders,” says Lake County Emergency Management coordinator Mark Clary of the staff at the Dispatch Center, tucked away on the second floor of the courthouse.

Wolfpack boys, girls roll up pins at Hellgate

The Glacier Wolfpack piled up four pins and a technical fall, and cruised to a 65-6 dual wrestling win over Missoula Hellgate Tuesday. The Wolfpack girls won four of five matches, three by pin, to outscore the Knights 22-6 as well.

McCarthy fails in marathon votes for speaker, House adjourns

WASHINGTON (AP) — Unable to elect Republican leader Kevin McCarthy as the new House speaker Tuesday, the Republicans adjourned for the day in disarray as the party tries to regroup from his a historic defeat after a long, messy start for the new Congress.

Budget, abortion and housing emerge as key issues in state Legislature

As Montana’s 68th Legislature gets underway, members appear poised to address regulations surrounding abortion, the state’s housing crisis and a massive budget surplus.

Legals for January, 3 2023

Idaho slayings suspect's family voices sympathy for victims

Relatives of a man arrested in Pennsylvania in the slayings of four University of Idaho students expressed sympathy for the victims' families but also vowed to support him and promote “his presumption of innocence."

Birth announcements

Hilde Jay Johnson, daughter of Kelsey and Cameron Johnson of Columbia Falls, was born on Dec. 2, 2022 at Logan Health Whitefish.

Legals for January, 2 2023

Dave Barry's 2022 Year in Review

The best thing we can say about 2022 is: It could have been worse.

Flathead Watercooler

Business events, trainings and seminars

An expanded reservation system and construction likely to loom large for Glacier National Park visitors in 2023

Ticketed entry and planned construction on the Going-to-the-Sun Road will again likely prove the biggest concerns for visitors going to Glacier National Park in 2023, according to Superintendent Dave Roemer.

Whitefish High School expansion options revealed

The cost will likely range from $26.5 million to just over $34 million depending on the concept recommended by the committee.