Remote legislative session possible due to virus

The Montana Legislative Council is considering the possibility of holding a remote legislative session next year because of the coronavirus pandemic

Whitefish tech firm joins global partnership

It can be a little hard for the layperson to comprehend exactly what goes on at Neuro-ID, the Whitefish technology company that provides insight into customer behavior during digital transactions. But there’s one thing they’re doing that everyone can understand: growing.

Hooray for the French boule

I was the kind of mom who almost always answered my kids’ requests to buy something spontaneously with “Not today” or “It’s not on sale.”

Montana-based 'alt-right' leader has Twitter account suspended

NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter has suspended the accounts of several prominent members of the so-called "alt-right" in an apparent crack down on accounts tied to hate speech or threats of violence.

Case against neo-Nazi publisher will proceed

HELENA — The First Amendment’s free-speech protections do not shield a neo-Nazi website publisher from being sued for a “troll storm” by his readers that led to hundreds of anti-Semitic threats against a Jewish woman and her family, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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Economic outlook seminar Feb. 7

Tiptoe through Dutch tulips? Not in coronavirus crisis

LISSE, Netherlands (AP) — The manicured lawns and pathways winding the flower beds at the Keukenhof spring garden, normally crowded with thousands of visitors on any given sun-splashed spring day, were deserted Thursday.

Idaho health officials confirm three coronavirus cases

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho health officials announced the state's first confirmed coronavirus case on Friday and said it identified its second and third cases on Saturday.

Water Cooler: Travel writer features Bigfork, Flathead Lake

The Bigfork area recently was featured in a New York Times travel article written by Freda Moon, whose grandmother Frances Evans was raised near Flathead Lake. Moon, her husband Tim and their 13-month-old daughter stayed at the Islander Inn in Woods Bay and an Airbnb apartment in Big Arm, among other places, during their time in the Flathead.

Have a doggone good time at the fair

“Hot diggity dog,” it’s fair time.

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SIS beheads second captive Lebanese soldier

BEIRUT (AP) — The mother of a Lebanese soldier held captive by the militant Islamic State group said photographs posted online Saturday purporting to show his beheading appeared to be real. 

Plot thickens for online novel

Every now and again conversations in Whitefish circle around to “The Whitefish Novel,” the anonymous online novel that’s as much a social commentary about Whitefish issues as it is a murder mystery.

Too many tourists follow a leader

A spectacular picture recently appeared on social media of a young lady in Arizona. She was poised on the edge of a cliff emblazoned with sunset colors. Immediately her online followers clamored to know where the picture was taken, so “I can get one just like it.”

Local teens to represent Montana at Congressional App Challenge

A Kalispell Code Girls United team will represent Montana at the nationwide Congressional App Challenge for an app they designed to combat human trafficking.

Unmasked attendees prompt Kalispell School Board to adjourn meeting

Board switches to online format

A Kalispell School Board meeting was adjourned shortly after it began Tuesday when a group of people showed up refusing to wear masks in accordance with Gov. Steve Bullock’s statewide mask mandate.

Plan includes on-site, remote learning

The Whitefish School District board today will vote on a plan to transition into fully reopening schools that has students doing a combination of on-site and remote learning for the first month.

One year after abuse and threats, stronger than ever

One year ago our community was threatened with an armed neo-Nazi march by Andrew Anglin and readers of the Daily Stormer. Members of the Jewish community were cyberattacked and harassed with threatening, anti-Semitic messages that continued over months. Whitefish businesses were attacked with false, libelous reviews online and harassing phone-calls. There was a general sense or fear and anxiety in our community as Martin Luther King Jr. Day approached and we wondered if the neo-Nazis and white supremacists would actually show up to march.

Contact made with suspect

The investigation into the Flathead Valley’s school-threat scare took two new turns on Saturday.

Plea made for county pawn ordinance

A Kalispell couple whose home was burglarized twice during the past year have asked the Flathead County commissioners to consider a countywide pawn-shop measure that would work in tandem with the city of Kalispell’s ordinance, which requires pawn and secondhand shops to use online software to connect their inventory to the police department.