Lady Griz, Bobcats win ahead of Monday showdown

MISSOULA — Carmen Gfeller scored 18 points, including 12 free throws, and the Montana Lady Griz held down offensive-minded Northern Arizona for a 66-60 win in Big Sky Conference women’s basketball Saturday.

C-Falls MatCats take fifth at A Duals

Columbia Falls finished fifth at the 19-team Class A Duals that concluded Saturday at Fergus High School, beating Ronan in a shortened dual by an 18-12 score to leave the Chiefs in sixth.

Vikings fifth at Ted Kato Invite

Bigfork had two first place wrestlers and Whitefish had one at the Ted Kato Invitational held Saturday.

Mission girls hand Valkyries first setback

Kason Page scored 19 points, Kooper Page added 17 and the Mission Bulldogs knocked off previously unbeaten Bigfork 52-44 in a District 7-B girls basketball battle Saturday.

Vikings knock Mission from unbeaten ranks

Bryce Hilliard scored 15 points and the Bigfork Vikings edged Mission 57-54 Saturday, handing the Bulldogs their first boys basketball loss.

Flathead wins Montana AA Duals, Glacier fifth

The Flathead Brave Brawlers won yet another boys wrestling tournament Saturday, thumping Billings Senior 43-18 for the championship of the Montana AA Duals.

Maidens edge Lady Bulldogs

RONAN — Olivia Heiner poured in 17 points to help the Ronan Maidens edge the Whitefish Lady Bulldogs 38-31 Friday in Northwest A girls basketball.

Moy, Bravettes top Pack convincingly

Looking at the final score from the girls crosstown basketball game Friday — Flathead won 52-23 on its homecourt to stay unbeaten — it’s easy to forget that Glacier looked right as rain nine minutes in.

Wolfpack surges to boys crosstown win

The Glacier Wolfpack showed no jitters on Flathead’s home floor Friday, in a 69-49 crosstown boys basketball win.

Montana seeks to overturn court ruling on abortion access

Montana's attorney general is asking the state Supreme Court to overturn a 1999 opinion that found the state constitution's right to privacy guarantees a woman's access to an abortion — the opinion Planned Parenthood is using to challenge three new abortion laws.

Wings Radiothon: Annual fundraiser benefits nonprofit cancer support

The 26th annual Wings radiothon fundraiser is Thursday, Jan. 20 and Friday, Jan. 21.

Letters to the editor Jan. 20

Letters to the editor Jan. 20

Legals for January, 20 2022

New pro baseball team reveals name and mascot

The Flathead Valley’s new professional baseball team on Wednesday revealed its brand as the Glacier Range Riders, along with a mountain goat mascot.

Legals for January, 19 2022

Flathead girls have strong showing at Hellgate Invite

The Flathead Bravettes had another dominant showing over the weekend, getting six individual champions and 20 placers at the Missoula Hellgate Invitational.

U.S. plans $50B wildfire fight where forests meet suburbia

The Biden administration plans to significantly expand efforts to stave off catastrophic wildfires that have torched areas of the U.S. West by more aggressively thinning forests around areas called "hotspots" where nature and neighborhoods collide.

Montana hospital recruits international nurses in tight workforce

Before Mary Venus was offered a nursing job at a hospital here, she’d never heard of Billings or visited the United States. A native of the Philippines, she researched her prospective move via the internet, set aside her angst about the cold Montana winters and took the job, sight unseen.

Legals for January, 18 2022

Montana Tech administrator hired to lead hospital foundation

An administrator and former athletic director at Montana Tech in Butte is joining Logan Health as president of the hospital’s foundation.