7:20 a.m. A mama bear brought her three cubs to raid the chicken coop, but then got stuck inside.  9:29 a.m. Someone claimed their neighbor tried to run them over while mowing the law.  11:59 a.m. A lawn mower was stolen.  1:43 p.m. A dachshund successfully chased away a black bear.  6:35 p.m.  A sports […]

Del Orrin Crawford remains in the Flathead County Detention Center on $750,000 bail

She is taking the job seriously and that’s the kind of commissioner we need

Whitefish singer-songwriter Jo Smith will release her first full album, ‘Wyoming,’ on Oct. 21 after spending years in Nashville followed by a career change that led her to Somalia

Between his disdain for the Judicial Canons, shunning the commitments of his current office as PSC commissioner and his bombastic unfounded claims in his commercials, James Brown has proven himself unfit to ascend to the Montana Supreme Court. I’ll vote accordingly.  

Let’s take a deep breath and remember why we’re here

A 39-year-old Billings man apparently killed a 38-year-old woman and an 11-year-old boy before killing himself

The forecast means droughts that have punished the Great Plains and western states are likely to continue

Flathead County is considering acquiring a portion of the old Gateway West Mall, a majority of which was offered to the library board to relocate the Kalispell branch

Sweeney Todd will run from Oct. 20 through Oct. 23 and Oct. 27 through Oct. 30.

1:53 a.m. A housesitter did not know how to get the dogs he was watching to stop barking.  6:55 a.m. After finding a shoe on the front porch, a woman suspected someone had been sleeping there.  7:43 a.m. A man fell asleep on a park bench while his dog was playing. 

Proposals focus on ways to boost home construction in an effort to ease Montana’s housing crunch

While the number of undergraduate students has plummeted, the cost of earning a degree has sky-rocketed faster than inflation

Charles Elton’s book "Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision," was published earlier this year

We urge state policymakers and fellow Montanans to affirm the right to keep the state from dictating care in such tragic circumstances