Good morning; on the Beacon today, police and downtown business owners are trying to come up with ways to handle a large, unruly mob that gathers in Kalispell at the corner of Third and Main Street nightly. The yearling cub of a 17-year-old female grizzly that was recently killed by Glacier National Park rangers was transferred out of the park Tuesday on its way to the Bronx Zoo in New York. A Kalispell City Council work session on a proposed noise ordinance drew the ire of several west side residents Monday concerned about a clause in the language of the proposed ordinance that could exempt the city airport from any noise violations. A 52-year-old man has been charged with murder after a stabbing in the bathroom of a Ronan bar. After listening to 13 minutes of naysayers and discussing among themselves for another 20 minutes, the Polson City Commission voted 4-2 to place a resolution before city voters in November that would impose a surcharge on luxury, non-essential goods sold inside the city limits.
Stillwater Mining Co. officials said Tuesday that recent talks with General Motors failed to convince the automaker to reconsider a canceled metals supply contract with the mine. A $200,000 stimulus grant is going to the Montana State Crime Lab to help knock down a case backlog. Turner Enterprises has submitted an application to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to house a herd of quarantined bison on a portion of Ted Turner’s 113,000-acre Flying D Ranch south of Bozeman. Sen. Max Baucus sat in a Billings Hardee’s restaurant yesterday defending health care reform to any constituent willing to speak with him. And NorthWestern Energy recently sent a letter to its customers warning the current cap-and-trade bill before Congress would raise their rates by hundreds of dollars annually.