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AmericanTowns Heroes: Ariana Hargis is a Real Livesaver

Ariana Hargis is the kind of lifeguard you want on duty when your loved ones are in the pool. She's a quick-thinking, focused professional with eyes in the back of her head. When...

Extradition Hearings Set in Missing Teacher Case

GRAND FORKS, N.D. – Extradition hearings will be held next month for two men jailed in North Dakota in the kidnapping of a Montana teacher who is presumed dead. A judge in...

Heated Charges, Counter-Charges in Florida Debate

TAMPA, Fla. – Republican presidential contenders Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich clashed repeatedly in heated, personal terms Monday night in a crackling campaign debate, the...

Storms Increase Local Snowpack

West-central Montana made sizable jumps in snowpack levels after winter storms blew through the region last week, including jump in the Flathead River Basin. According to the...

Comedy Night at Crush

It just takes a brief chat with comedian Bobby Slayton to know that some of the descriptors often used for his style – “rapid fire,” “motor mouth”...

State Wants Corporate Spending Ban in Place Before Court Review

HELENA — The attorney general asked the Montana Supreme Court on Monday to keep in place the state's century-old ban on direct spending by corporations on political...

UPDATE: Judge: Federal Law Trumps State’s Medical Marijuana Law

HELENA — A judge has ruled that Montana's medical marijuana law doesn't shield providers of the drug from federal prosecution, delivering a new blow to an industry...

Kalispell Doctor Co-Authors One of Top Medical Books of 2011

Indeed, all life is a matter of the heart. Perhaps because of this biological certainty, that life ends when the heart stops, humans regard the heart as much more than simply an...

Montana’s Wildlife Policies Raise Ethical Question

HELENA — Montana is looking to recreational hunters for help in enforcing more of its wildlife management policies, but one regulator worries they are being asked to cross...

Promoting Bigfork Year Round

With new officers and an eye on the future, the Bigfork Promotion Group is ready to showcase all that its village has to offer with billboards, postcards and potential grants for...

PLACES: Blacktail Nordic Trails

The Flathead Valley offers numerous groomed Nordic trails and some of the best are on Blacktail Mountain in Lakeside. The system of trails is expertly groomed by the North Shore...

Rock Shrimp and Avocado Lumpia with Wasabi-Orange Cream

If your new year’s resolution is to better prepare for meals in advance, you’re in luck. This year, I will accompany many of my recipes with timelines to help you...

Gingrich Storms to S.C. Victory, Scrambling GOP Race

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich stormed to an upset victory in the South Carolina primary Saturday night, dealing a sharp setback to former front-runner...

County Commission Approves Redistricting

The Flathead County Commission voted last week to approve new district boundaries for the three commissioners, in an effort to more evenly distribute the county’s...

State Prepared If Truck Drivers Strike

HELENA — A union covering about 300 state Department of Transportation truck drivers in western Montana warned Friday it may strike amid an ongoing dispute over pay freezes,...

Forest Service Grants $9.5M for Wildlife Habitat Protection

MISSOULA — The U.S. Forest Service has granted $9.5 million to protect wildlife habitat on private lands in northwestern Montana and northern Idaho. The agency announced...

FWP May Raise Fees to Help Lagging Revenues

BILLINGS — Montana hunters and anglers, including senior citizens and youngsters who now receive licenses at a discount, could pay higher fees in the future as officials...

Libby Board Votes to Demolish Section of Shuttered School

The Libby School Board voted this week to move forward with plans to ask the Environmental Protection Agency to demolish a section of the shuttered Asa Wood Elementary School that...

Our Welfare State

The government is a zero sum game. The government cannot create wealth, it can only redistribute it. That means for every person that receives something from the government...

Proud to be in the ‘Dawg House’

I don’t mind saying that we’re in the “Dawg House.” Our family was transferred from Texas to the Flathead Valley last June. Prior to our move, I spent a...

The Value of TIFs

It took until the 11th hour for the Kalispell City Council to extend the life of the West Side Tax Increment Finance District. As someone who now lives in the district, I have to...

Canadian on Montana Death Row Seeks Clemency

HELENA – A Canadian awaiting execution in Montana for killing two men in 1982 has filed clemency request that he hopes will ultimately lead to pardon. Ronald A. Smith of...

Strange Tracks

6:33 p.m. A loose horse made “strange” tracks in the snow on a Farm Road resident’s property. The property owner suspects that a prowler and a horse have been...

Small Earthquake Reported Near Seeley Lake

MISSOULA – The U.S. Geological Survey reports an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 shook west-central Montana early Friday. The quake was centered 29 miles...

Kalispell No Longer Plowing Private Driveways

Kalispell residents waiting for their driveways to be plowed after the biggest snowstorm of the year were out of luck this week. The city public works department is cracking...

Montana Regents Investigate University Sex Attacks

MISSOULA – The state Board of Regents plans a system-wide look at the way it handles reports of sexual assault after an ongoing investigation uncovered reports of at least...

Transfer Technicalities

I am not a fan of an NCAA provision that allows an athlete who has remaining eligibility to switch schools and play immediately in another program after they obtain an...

Fiery Debate Tops Bizarre GOP Campaign Day in S.C.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. – The race for the Republican presidential nomination took a turn toward the South Carolina surreal Thursday as Rick Perry dropped out, Newt Gingrich...

Skijoring Tradition Lives on in Whitefish

Whitefish is a town of lively traditions. The annual World Skijoring Championships are a hallmark example. The two-day event reflects both the town’s identity and its...

Glacier Bancorp Announces Consolidation

Glacier Bancorp plans to consolidate its 11 banking subsidiaries across the West into a single commercial bank based in Kalispell, the company announced on Wednesday. ...

Powder Days Arrive, Finally

Winter arrived late but with a vengeance this week. Whitefish Mountain Resort reported Thursday afternoon that the recent storm system has dropped 2 feet of snow on its summit in...

Exxon Reaches $1.6 Million Spill Settlement

BILLINGS – Exxon Mobil agreed Thursday to pay the state of Montana $1.6 million in penalties over water pollution caused by a pipeline break last summer that fouled dozens...

Suspicious Prize

9:48 a.m. A suspicious Kalispell man reported that a Hispanic man with poor communication skills keeps calling him and telling him he has won a large sum of money. The caller...

Bigfork’s New Head Viking

BIGFORK – Around the middle of May last year, Kurt Paulson heard that the head coaching job for Bigfork High School’s boys basketball program had opened up. By June 1,...

Snow Making

Being lucky is sometimes a lot better than being skillful. I have been very lucky because years ago I decided to hang my skis on a mountain in Montana. Who would have thought that...

UPDATE: Rehberg Gets Senate Challenge from the Right

HELENA – A Terry farmer unknown to statewide politics is creating a U.S. Senate race primary challenge to Republican Congressman Denny Rehberg, who remains focused on...

Evergreen Wrestling Club Announces Sign-ups

The Evergreen Wrestling Club is holding sign-ups for grapplers between the ages of 5 and 15 on Jan. 25. The sign-ups will be inside the cafeteria of Evergreen Junior High School...

Perry Abandoning Bid, Backing Gingrich

CHARLESTON, S.C. – Texas Gov. Rick Perry is abandoning his presidential bid and endorsing Newt Gingrich. That's according to Republican officials who spoke on the...

Kalispell Attorney Takes Oath as Federal Judge

MISSOULA – Kalispell attorney Dana Christensen has taken the oath of office to become Montana's newest federal judge. The U.S. Senate confirmed the 60-year-old for the...

Gov. Schweitzer Seeks Political Practices Nominees

HELENA – Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Wednesday that he wants legislative leaders to provide a list of nominees for political practice commissioner by next week in the wake of...

New School is Critical to Learning

On behalf of the Whitefish School District, I offer my deepest gratitude for our city council’s decision on Jan. 2. During that meeting, our council agreed to unanimously...

Takeaways Are Everywhere

From time to time, you get signs that your work here isn't complete. I recently I had one of those days. Six of us, including a three year old and a one year old on the...

Romancing the Stone

There are believed to be only 13 master gemstone faceters in the country. Kalispell resident Jack Gross is one of them. The 81-year-old started cutting and polishing gems more...

Montana Lawmakers Decry Keystone XL Pipeline Rejection

After President Barack Obama's announced Wednesday that he is denying a Canadian oil company's permit application to build the 1,700-mile Keystone XL pipeline,...

Kalispell Boys Basketball Teams Both Ranked

Kalispell has two boys basketball teams ranked in the latest Class AA poll. Flathead (5-3 overall, 2-0 in conference) and Glacier (6-2, 1-1) are tied for fifth in the Associated...

Paddles and Palettes

Some artists put their work on canvases, others use walls. And some, like Matt Springer, use paddles. Springer and five other Montana artists have painted, carved and decorated...

Council Struggles to Find Consensus Over Impact Fees

Should growth pay for growth, or should business pay for growth? A two-hour work session inside City Hall on Jan. 17 boiled down to that question when the Kalispell City...

Northwest Montana Dodges Worst of Winter Storm

While snow is still in the forecast, Northwest Montana appears to have dodged the worst of a recent winter storm that stretched from Seattle to the Rockies. According to...

Montana Authorities Seek Extradition in Kidnapping

BILLINGS – Authorities on Wednesday started extradition procedures against two men held in North Dakota in the kidnapping of a Montana teacher who is presumed dead. ...

Obama: No on Oil Pipeline, More Review Needed

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama says he's denying an application for a Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline because a GOP-mandated deadline didn't allow time for a...