Gene Vuckovich, 86

Visitation for Gene Vuckovich, 86, who passed away July 12, 2022, in Anaconda will begin at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19, at Holy Family Catholic Church in Anaconda.

Letters to the editor July 19

Letters to the editor July 19

Legals for July, 19 2022

AA Lakers have a southpaw leader in Kostya Hoffman

Kostya Hoffman readily tells you that baseball is his sport, and his three years pitching with the Kalispell Lakers AA squad bears that out.

Police laud actions of man who killed Indiana mall attacker

GREENWOOD, Ind. (AP) — A gunman who shot five people at a suburban Indianapolis shopping mall, killing three of them before a shopper shot and killed him, was a 20-year-old local man who was apparently facing eviction, authorities said Monday.

3-year-old among 6 killed in Montana highway pileup

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A 3-year-old was among six people killed in a pileup Friday afternoon on a Montana highway during blackout conditions caused by dust storms, officials said Monday.

Kalispell Council set to vote on garbage rate increase

The last time city solid waste rates, which are collected through property tax assessments, were increased was in 2011 and that was by $3 per year.

Toddler, 2 more kids among 6 killed in I-90 crash

Two children are among the six people who died in a Montana pileup after a Friday evening dust storm caused blackout conditions on Interstate 90, a major route in both Montana and the Western U.S.

OPINION: Who is Montana's largest socialist?

The head of the Montana Republican Party, a car salesman, has called Western District Congressional candidate Monica Tranel, who has worked in the private sector most of her life, a socialist.

Human nature hunts for sweet life

A couple of weeks after I moved here last fall, a Kalispell resident buttonholed me at an event to ask if people had been kind to me, as a newcomer to the valley.

State lotteries increasingly cede control to huge firms

In three states, the day-to-day management of state lotteries comes from multinational corporations, which reap millions of dollars in profits from state-approved gambling.

Denise Rose (Marquart) Schlegel, 53

Denise Rose (Marquart) Schlegel

Legals for July, 17 2022

Mustangs end Riders’ streak at 3

The Glacier Range Riders were a couple wall-scrapers from a four-game winning streak, but their latest rally fell short in a 10-9 loss to the Billings Mustangs Thursday at Flathead Field.

Meeting gives overview of CWD management efforts in Libby

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is hosting an informational meeting on chronic wasting disease in Libby.

Law Roundup: Neighbors give visiting Californian a not-so-warm welcome

A California man in a short term rental in the West Glacier area apparently made the mistake of revealing his home state to his neighbors. They had begun harassing him, both for being from the Golden State and because they didn’t like the idea of having a short term rental unit next door, he told the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office. Now they were accusing him of having too many people at the rental.

Flathead National Forest lost Facebook privileges during avalanche season

Flathead National Forest was without its main portal for pushing safety information to the public for six months at the beginning of 2022 after losing its ability to post on Facebook for unspecified reasons.

Legals for July, 14 2022

Flathead Valley Community Band returns to live performance

The Flathead Valley Community Band (FVCB) presents “An Evening in the Park” concert Wednesday July 20, in Marantette Park, Columbia Falls.

Prosecutors: Shotgun-toting man made death threats

Deputies with the Flathead County Sheriff’s Office arrested Aaron Douglas Glenn Kupka, 36, after responding to a report of a confrontation involving guns about 1:33 a.m., July 9.