Chocolate, sugar, oatmeal. Sounds like the recipe for a yummy cookie. It is … but not one you can eat. Remedies Day Spa turns out a line of body treatment products all made from kitchen edibles. Grapefruit, rosemary, peppermint, lime, chamomile and coffee make up the all-natural ingredients in the company’s products. Owner Jennifer Krack […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Friday included the following: 8:58 a.m. The passenger window of a parked car was smashed to bits. 10:29 a.m. A driver on Echo Lake Road was sprayed with flying snow by a man operating a snow blower. The angry driver consequently pulled over, hopped out of […]

Good morning and happy birthday Thomas Edison. In our top local story, a new report finds there were no mechanical problems involved in a May skydiving plane crash that killed five people. A final report could be issued in a few weeks. Ronald Petersen, of Bigfork, a suspect in the late December murder of a […]

Yesterday, exactly eight weeks after I had first put it up, I took down my Christmas tree. I didn’t really want to. But my boyfriend had revealed my secret to a coworker and his girlfriend the previous day, and while I’ve ignored his protests over the past few months, having my embarrassing secret out in […]

Five-and-a-half years ago, the four founders of Nomad Technologies, Inc., were recent college grads working summers as raft guides in Montana. Today, they’ve built Nomad into a thriving, multi-million dollar company producing specialized mobile command vehicles for emergency response crews and the military. As guides, the four friends would double as bus drivers when fires […]

HELENA (AP) – Montana has joined 30 other states in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a lower court ruling affirming the individual’s right to bear arms, state Attorney General Mike McGrath said Monday. The states signed a “friend-of-the-court” brief that contends a federal appeals court was correct in finding the District of Columbia’s […]

COLUMBIA FALLS – Hanging high on the gymnasium walls at Columbia Falls High School are rows of state championship banners from past boys basketball teams. The tradition is clear. Once again, this year the Columbia Falls Wildcats are at the top of Northwest A in boys basketball. But as always, a good regular season record […]

HELENA (AP) – A Helena attorney who spent years in the Montana National Guard says he plans to run for the U.S. House seat held by Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg. Democrat Jim Hunt says he’ll hold a press conference Tuesday at Fort Harrison to launch his campaign. He declined further comment until then. Hunt, the […]

HELENA (AP) – The Montana AFL-CIO is endorsing Gov. Brian Schweitzer for a second term. The state labor federation represents 35,000 members and 168 labor organizations. Its executive secretary, Jim McGarvey, says Schweitzer believes all Montanans deserve good jobs with health insurance and retirement benefits that will support their families. And he says the governor […]

A new Bigfork library, for both the high school and the community, is part of the decision facing voters in the upcoming school bond election. The $11.1-million bond would pay for renovation and expansion of the school, and a new 4,800-square-foot library. “I think this is a great opportunity for the community to invest in […]

MEDORA, N.D. (AP) – The number of elk roaming the nation’s parks is booming, and that’s bad news for them. A debate has started among wildlife and conservation officials about how the animals should be culled — by sharpshooters’ bullets or by their natural enemy, wolves. The National Park Service has no firm estimate on […]

Games between Columbia Falls and Whitefish are rarely boring. This one was no exception, except perhaps for the outcome. In what started out as a punishingly physical game, the Columbia Falls Wildcats used an old page out of this season’s playbook to pound the Whitefish Bulldogs Saturday night in Columbia Falls – an oppressive defense […]

KALISPELL (AP) – A Bigfork man charged in the December shooting death of a Ferndale man was ordered held without bail during a Justice Court appearance Thursday. Ronald L. Petersen, 19, was arrested in North Carolina after his brother told investigators that Petersen had confessed to murdering Clyde Wilson, 24, early on Dec. 31. Petersen […]

HELENA (AP) – There were no mechanical or structural problems with an airplane that crashed shortly after takeoff at a skydiving site west of Kalispell in May, killing all five people on board, according to a report by the National Transportation Safety Board. However, the investigator’s report released this week found the plane was 165 […]

Bigfork artist Nancy Dunlop Cawdrey stood in the Hockaday Museum on a recent afternoon, and watched people react to her paintings. It was her first museum show, “American Silk Road,” and while some artists might feel anxious at such a moment, she was composed and cracking jokes. Cawdrey – like her art – is anything […]