The county Republican central committee plans to endorse candidates in local legislative races again as campaigning ramps up. Democrats have also fielded candidates in each of the area’s legislative races, a feat the local chair called “a sign of growing energy.”
The senator’s departure from the race minutes before Montana's filing deadline caused an outcry from some members of his own party — and beyond — who argued the move sets a “dangerous precedent”
A federal court ordered dam operators along the Columbia and Snake rivers must lower reservoir levels and increase spill to aid endangered salmon and steelhead populations, an adjustment that Flathead Electric officials say has "direct affordability implications" to members
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