DREAM Adaptive summer program makes splash with participants

DREAM Adaptive summer program geared to give people with disabilities new experiences on the water.

Browning man sentenced for murder, kidnapping on Blackfeet Reservation

A Blackfeet Tribal member who admitted to murdering a man and then holding a woman hostage at knifepoint on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation was sentenced Wednesday to 26 years and eight months in prison.

Legals for July, 23 2021

A change of pace

Olympic dreams sidelined, Liz Halliday-Sharp regroups at Rebecca Farm

As the saying goes, when life hands you lemons, make lemonade. For Liz Halliday-Sharp, the lemon came when her horse, Deniro Z, suffered an injury a few weeks before the start of the Tokyo Olympics.

Sex offender gets 50 years for assault on Lakeside woman

A Butte man convicted of 15 felony offenses is headed to the Montana State Prison after he was sentenced Thursday in connection with an attempted rape and aggravated assault at a Lakeside resort.

Flathead meth trafficker sentenced to 20 years

A Missoula man who avoided murder charges in the Flathead Valley was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for his conviction in a large methamphetamine trafficking ring in which multi-pound shipments of meth were stored at his shop in East Missoula and distributed in Northwest Montana.

Bigfork teen violinist sets off to study in Paris this summer

Violinist Lauren Welch, a 14-year-old Bigfork native, was recently accepted to attend a two-week summer course at the world-renowned Paris Conservatory of Music in France.

Christopher Johnston, 43

Christopher M. Johnston 43, of Kalispell, passed away on Thursday, July 15, 2021, at Logan Health Medical Center.

Legals for July, 22 2021

Housing costs emerge as key to Montana's labor shortage

Montana's economy has largely healed from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic but is facing a labor shortage fueled partly by a lack of affordable housing, economists said Wednesday.

Colleges offer construction worker certificate program

Two-year colleges in Montana are teaming up to provide a job site readiness certificate program for people interested in joining the construction trades as demand for workers in that field increases.

Lawmaker continues to press Missoula County election allegations

Four months have passed since allegations of voting irregularities in Missoula County's 2020 election made their way to the floor of the Montana House. But according to documents produced in response to a public records request by the Montana Free Press, Rep. Brad Tschida, R-Missoula, is continuing to press Secretary of State Christi Jacobsen to conduct a full investigation of what he claims was a "debacle" of an election last fall.

Monster wildfire tests years of forest management efforts

Ecologists in a vast region of wetlands and forest in remote Oregon have spent the past decade thinning young trees and using planned fires to try to restore the thick stands of ponderosa to a less fire-prone state.

Massive wildfires in West bring haze to East Coast

Wildfires in the American West, including one burning in Oregon that's currently the largest in the United States, are creating hazy skies as far away as New York as the massive infernos spew smoke and ash into the air in columns up to 6 miles (10 kilometers) high.

Carolyn Ruth Reich, 68

Carolyn was born to Charles Reich and Edna (Kallner) (Reich) Doyle in 1953 in Whitefish and died July 11, 2021, at the age of 68, in Kalispell.

West Valley School builds new classrooms

Two new classrooms are under construction at the West Valley School as the district strives to keep pace with enrollment growth.

Ronald Joseph Landwehr, 77

Ronald Joseph Landwehr was born Nov. 6, 1943, in Los Angeles (war baby) to Russel Joseph Landwehr and Lorine (Hehmke) Landwehr.

Kalispell youth soccer player recovering from cardiac event

Fourteen-year-old Tucker Paul's heart stopped for several minutes after collapsing during a soccer game June 6.

Legals for July, 21 2021

Back to business at Rebecca Farm

It’s almost fitting that things are back to normal in time for The Event at Rebecca Farm’s 20th anniversary.