“On thy grave the rain shall fall from the eyes of a mighty nation!” — Thomas William Parsons During the hustle and bustle of your Memorial Day, take a moment to silently remember those who paid the ultimate price.

Theresa Clapper places an American flag near a relative’s gravesite at Glacier Memorial Gardens on U.S. Highway 93. Clapper said after visiting family at the Conrad Memorial Cemetery, on behalf of her and her sisters, she continued placing flowers at family sites at Glacier Memorial. Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day of […]

Whoever invented the no-boil lasagna noodle changed my life. Eliminating the tedium and considerable skill necessary to cook lasagna pasta, making sure each noodle retained its shape and integrity was a seminal moment in 20th century culinary history. Okay, so maybe I shouldn’t ascribe so much gravitas to the no-boil noodle, but it did provide […]

Don’t be fooled by Lyndsey Hoffenbacker’s age or size. When it’s time for a big play, the 15-year-old sophomore on Glacier High School’s softball team knows how to deliver. An example of that is her catch against Flathead High School during the second game of a Friday doubleheader. After narrowly losing the first meeting to […]

BOZEMAN – Former President Bill Clinton said Saturday that a victory by his wife in next month’s Democratic primary in Montana could force party leaders to reassess her bid for the presidential nomination. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been scrambling to close a widening delegate lead held by Sen. Barack Obama with only three contests […]

HELENA – A trial on whether the state of Montana is still underfunding public schools is scheduled for late September in Helena. The trial is expected to last a week before District Judge Jeffrey Sherlock. It will begin either Sept. 22 or Sept. 29, depending on whether an unrelated trial goes ahead as planned on […]

Related: Exclusive Interview: Obama, Clinton Make Closing Arguments as Montana Primary Looms. HELENA – A new poll shows Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in Montana heading into the state’s June 3 presidential primary. Both Democrats trail Republican Sen. John McCain in head-to-head matchups. The Lee Newspapers poll — the first broad survey […]

At 11 years old, Caeli Quinn bicycled Going-to-the-Sun Road over Logan Pass on a family vacation. Then, she had little thought for the carbon-neutral, oil-free method of travel except that it was fun. Later, she rode long bike tours across China, Chile, Argentina, Slovakia, Italy, Burma and most of the U.S. “Bicycling slows down the […]

Maybe it’s not so much of a change as an enhancement: the Bigfork Museum of Art and History, (formerly the Art and Cultural Center,) will still hold art exhibits, they’re just beefing up their historical emphasis. “Any little community ends up sometimes loosing their history because they have no center for it,” says Museum Director […]

POLSON – The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a Billings trucking company to clean up the site near Flathead Lake where a tanker truck overturned and spilled almost 6,400 gallons of gasoline. A news release issued late Thursday by the EPA’s Denver office said recent samplings show that petroleum hydrocarbons, including benzene and toluene, have […]

BONNER – About one-fourth of Plum Creek Timber Co.’s vast lands in Montana would be conserved for public use under a tentative deal with financing advanced by Sen. Max Baucus. The Montana Democrat, Plum Creek’s chief executive and representatives of conservation groups gathered next to Montana’s Blackfoot River on Friday to announce a framework for […]

The Columbia Falls Aluminum Co. announced Friday it’s considering reducing production at its smelter by as much as two-thirds. Executives have notified union leaders at the Aluminum Workers Trade Council that it may have to lay off workers sometime in July. Haley Beaudry, the company’s external affairs manager, couldn’t say how many employees might be […]

BILLINGS – A small airplane crashed into a building here early Friday, causing an explosion and fire and killing the pilot, officials said. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus said the Beachcraft 1900 had just taken off from Billings Logan International Airport when it crashed into a building in the Billings Heights at 1:25 a.m. […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Wednesday included the following: 9:46 a.m. Someone reported two suspicious and possibly intoxicated men sitting in their car at the Old Steel Bridge. 11:57 a.m. A woman called in because someone had lobbed a rock through her travel trailer window. 12:02 p.m. A lone black cow […]

Cruising down the interstate at about 6 mph over the speed limit, I was busy watching for officer in unmarked cars who arrest speeders in every town between where I live in the mountains and the city that gets further away,each time I have to drive there. It is the middle of May. It is […]