Funding to send Montana prisoners to Arizona private prison reinstated by Senate committee

The Senate Finance and Claims Committee voted Friday to put the $3.9 million annually that would go toward funding 120 beds for Montana prisoners at a CoreCivic private prison in Arizona into a separate bill after nixing the funding several other times this session.

Stocks drift ahead of week's deluge of profit, economic data

Stocks are drifting as Wall Street remains hesitant to make big moves amid questions about where the economy, interest rates and corporate profits are heading.

Unprepared for long war, US Army under gun to make more ammo

The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant is at the vanguard of a multibillion-dollar Pentagon plan to modernize and accelerate its production of ammunition and equipment not only to support Ukraine, but to be ready for a potential conflict with China.

FVCC taps into role-playing game’s popularity with continuing education class

A cooperative storytelling game, Dungeons & Dragons lets a group of players act as their characters as they complete quests, slay monsters, solve puzzles and, occasionally, save a fictional world.

Flathead Business Watercooler

Business events, trainings and seminars

At curtain, I’ll fake Manhattan

Flathead Valley opera fans have it pretty good.

Community briefs

Special Olympics games April 27-28; Special Olympics golf classic; Community meals set

Patricia Miles, 80

Patricia Miles, 80

As Montana looks to ban TikTok, questions linger

Less than a month after Congress battered TikTok’s CEO about Chinese influence over the social media platform and the threat it poses to national security, Montana lawmakers are trying to pass their own statewide ban of the popular app.

Letters to the editor April 23

Letters to the editor April 23

Our students deserve to be fully funded

If there’s one thing we all can agree on, it’s that we want what is best for our kids. This includes our own children, our grandchildren, and our neighbors, as they are all our kids, our future.

Legals for April, 23 2023

Business newsmakers

Happenings at Flathead businesses

Polson softball tops C-Falls Friday, 8-6

Samantha Rensvold hit a go-ahead, 2-run single in the seventh inning for Polson, and the Pirates rallied to beat Columbia Falls 8-6 in a Northwest A softball showdown Friday.

Hurdler Schrader leads C-Falls boys to Iceberg win

The Columbia Falls Wildcats capped a busy week with the boys team title in their own Iceberg Invitational track and field meet Saturday.

Band and orchestra students perform at District Music Festival

Scenes from the District Music Festival at Glacier High School on Thursday, April 20. (Casey Kreider photos/Daily Inter Lake)

Trans lawmaker silenced for 2nd day by Montana House speaker

A transgender Montana lawmaker was silenced for a second day Friday as her Republican colleagues have refused to let her speak on the chamber's floor this session until she apologizes for saying lawmakers would have "blood on their hands" if they banned gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth.

State suspends OPI’s authority to award contracts

Montana’s Office Public Instruction temporarily lost its authority to enter into high-price contracts for goods and services Tuesday after the Department of Administration discovered deficiencies in the agency’s practices.

Man who left death threats at Tester’s office changes plea

Kevin Patrick Smith, 46, initially pleaded not guilty to charges of threatening to murder and to assault a member of Congress at his Feb. 23 arraignment, but struck a deal with prosecutors on March 21.

David Stephenson, 80

David Stephenson, 80