BIGFORK – At age 9, when most children are learning basic multiplication and division, a Spanish portrait artist was teaching Diana Neville how to grid and draw the intricacies of the human body down to one-sixteenth of an inch. She took her first portrait order at age 12, and since then Neville, now a Bigfork […]

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks employees headed back to the Canyon Creek Recreation Area Friday morning following another report from skiers of an aggressive cow moose encounter. FWP received a similar report of a moose approaching or charging downhill skiers on Jan. 9. In late December the same moose apparently attacked a pair of snowmobiles […]

Late Wednesday afternoon, two families opened their new homes to the crews who helped build them. The Sweeney and Wehrman homes were dedicated Wednesday evening and both families are clearly thrilled to have spent their first Christmas at home. Their own new home. A home that they and 650 of their closest friends helped build. […]

Live Music: Friday: Can’t Hardly Playboys at Red’s; Silver’s Platter at The Cottage; La Nota at Scotty’s; Good Wood Trio at Raleigh’s; Deja Vu at Great Northern Bar; Andre Floyd at Blue Canyon; Mobile Beat DJ at Red’s Saturday: Wayne Murphy & Deirdre Heaton at Belton Chalet; Big Daddy and the Blue Notes at The […]

BILLINGS (AP) – Another Billings Republican announced Wednesday that he is running for the U.S. Senate seat held by Sen. Max Baucus. Engineer Kirk Bushman spoke Wednesday morning at a Carbon County Republican Women’s luncheon in Rockvale. The 41-year-old Bushman says he plans to launch an announcement tour on Jan. 16 in Billings. From there, […]

HELENA (AP) – Montana voters who can’t find a favorite presidential candidate are in good company — the state’s top political leaders are also largely undecided. The governor and the state’s congressional delegation say, like many voters, they’re looking for more information or waiting to see how events unfold in the primary season. Sen. Max […]

Whether you’re a skier, boader or a snowmobiler, when you’re way back in the fluff and tearing up the powder, it’s easy to become addicted to that next big set of turns, that next high mark, or that slope just above you. Those next big turns are why many of us are here, or still […]

When you’ve been around animals as long as I have, you’re bound to have some special memories. Some are exciting, some sad, others rewarding and some dangerous. I grew up like you – an animal enthusiast – but sadly had to get a “real job” and not one that allowed me to work with wildlife. […]

The Glacier Nordic Center is an idyllic place to enjoy the winter’s beauty without some of the hassles. The club maintains 12 kilometers of cross-country trails looping across serene landscape at Whitefish Lake Golf Course. The trails are groomed daily and the gentle sloping terrain is easy for beginners, a great workout for advanced skiers […]

A flurry of briefs and counter-briefs in the wake of a December state Supreme Court ruling has renewed the legal wrangling over a development at the northern tip of Swan Lake. The Swan Lakers, a community group opposing the Kootenai Lodge Estates subdivision, called the recent decision a victory, but Alan F. McCormick, an attorney […]

Good morning and happy birthday Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin. Topping local news this morning, two bodies were found floating in Flathead Lake near Polson wearing life jackets. Those bodies turning up comes on the heels of a string of homicides in the area over the holiday season. Speaking in Kalispell to the Montana Contractors Association, Sen. […]

This is, by far, the most exciting presidential election since I began paying attention to politics about ten years ago. Part of what I find most interesting about this race is the strong pushback by independent media and bloggers against the national press corp. and how that pack portrays the campaigns and recent primaries to […]

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality has extended the public comment period for a $28 million cleanup plan for a state Superfund site in Evergreen, after receiving only two comments, before moving on to the final phases of the decades-long process. The proposed plan outlines removal methods and cleanup costs for pollution that resulted from […]

One of my New Year’s resolutions is a howling good one: to get me a wolf. I’m not the only one resolving such a thing for 2008. The Helena Independent-Record ran a Web-poll that showed 253 of 471 respondents support a wolf-hunting season. Even 63 percent of random Idaho “not-hunters” surveyed feel hunting is an […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Wednesday included the following: 6:40 a.m. A Kalispell resident called in to complain that his neighbor keeps shoveling snow into their driveway so they can’t get out. A deputy told the disruptive neighbor to quit being a jerk. 10:11 a.m. A woman locked her husband out […]