Flathead County Sheriff’s and Kalispell Police Reports
6:48 a.m. Four live chickens were dumped on the roadway.
6:54 a.m. A dozen horses were on their way to the baseball fields.
8:46 a.m. Twenty mules were loose and wrecking a series of residential yards.
12:28 p.m. A car ran out of gas in the middle of an intersection.
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City council elections were held Nov. 7 in Kalispell, Columbia Falls and Whitefish, where voters also approved reallocating a portion of the resort tax for community housing
Hundreds of housing units are cropping up in the once-empty area northwest of Kalispell. With limited resources at its disposal, one small, rural school district is left to accommodate the wave of new children moving to the area.
As conservation groups emerge from court victorious in their mission to stop controversial logging projects, the future of the Yaak Valley and its timber industry remains in limbo