Miss Teen Montana has a mean roundhouse kick. This doesn’t help her much in beauty pageants, but when she’s fighting in national taekwondo tournaments against the country’s best junior black belts, it comes in handy. Lindsey Meade, who holds a second-degree black belt, is a stereotype breaker. The 17-year-old beauty queen from Condon is ranked […]

Good morning and happy birthday Ringo Starr! On the Beacon this morning, Myers Reece profiles a Miss Teen Montana who is also a taekwondo master. The Flathead County Library Board is in complete disarray and the future of the Kalispell library appears increasingly uncertain. The “Rails, Trails and a Road” exhibit at the Hockaday traces […]

YELLOW BAY – When Gary Johnson spotted a black bear in one of his family’s cherry trees, he first pointed it out to his wife Heidi and their three kids so they could see it. But when the bear wouldn’t leave, Gary had to get out the hose and chase it back into the woods. […]

Kalispell City Council meets tonight at 7:00 p.m. to take up a number of issues, including increasing building permit fees, setting up a public hearing for parks maintenance district and the placement of a women’s addiction recovery center. Prior to the meeting, the council will meet in a closed executive session to evaluate City Manager […]

At some point this weekend, in between barbeques and boating, conversation among my friends turned to fire. My companions, both Southern-born, mentioned how their perception of forest fires had changed when they moved to Montana. They grew up with the threat of hurricanes or tornadoes – natural disasters that have always seemed a bit surreal […]

HELENA – A legislative committee will meet July 16 in Helena to review public comments on carbon sequestration and publicly owned power. Additional comments will be accepted during the meeting. The Energy and Telecommunications Interim Committee will meet at 9 a.m. in Room 102 of the state Capitol. In June, the committee asked for public […]

309 swimmers from as far away as Lewistown descended on Columbia Falls for the 2008 Columbia Falls Invitational held at the Pinewood Park pool this past weekend. 86 events and almost 1000 swims later, Columbia Falls came away with a third place trophy behind Bitterroot (Hamilton) and Shelby. During the weekend, Columbia Falls Swim Team’s […]

MONTREAL – The summer tourism season has arrived in Old Montreal, but the tourists have not. The streets, restaurants, and boutiques of this picturesque 18th-century neighborhood are usually crowded with Americans on holiday. But this year, they’re eerily quiet, and area businesspeople say this could be the worst year yet for an industry that’s taken […]

I’m fortunate to have a television feature that appears weekly and I have a lot of fun doing it. I enjoy teaching others how to cook good food whether it’s in person or impersonally. One of the most frequent questions I get is, “Will your show ever make it to Food Network?” Not likely. While […]

Whether a local or a Fourth of July vacationer, there is no better time to visit the Crown of the Continent, Glacier National Park. With most of Going-to-the-Sun Road now open, visitors driving up Logan Pass are leaving plenty of hikes, like the John Lake Loop, lightly populated at the lower elevations. The John Lake […]

Last Friday, the National Park Service gathered with the public at Lake McDonald Lodge to honor the 75th anniversary of Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road. The event, complete with local singers, Native American drummers, several guest speakers and a cake, too, was similar to the dedication ceremony held in the summer of 1933, where about […]

HELENA – The Montana Highway Patrol is running more than $330,000 over budget on its annual gasoline bill this summer and is using money for gas that had been earmarked to hire more officers. To save money, the Highway Patrol is slowly phasing out its V8 Ford Crown Victoria cruisers and replacing them with V6 […]

SWAN LAKE – State fishery biologists will trawl their nets through Swan Lake this summer, snagging invasive lake trout in a continuing effort to reduce the numbers of non-native fish. The plan involves gill netting fish during a three-week period from late August into September. Biologists with the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks […]

The Columbia Falls library appears to have a new home, but the Kalispell library is still a question mark, perhaps even a bigger one than before. A half year after the Flathead County Library Board of Trustees shot down a proposal to move into the abandoned Tidyman’s building in downtown Kalispell with a 3-2 vote, […]

Stumptown Art Studio is eyeing its own backyard. “In the summertime, it’s so nice to go outside to work on art,” said Aida Hebbard, public relations manager for Stumptown Art Studio and Ceramics Annex (SASCA). The studio, which owns space between its building on Central Avenue and the alley, has used the area for storage […]