Good morning; today is the 66th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. Katrin Frye reports this morning that Bigfork schools are taking steps to reduce bullying after finding a disturbing note. In Columbia Falls, professionals network at “Business After Hours” events. Ski season is upon us, and Whitefish Mountain Resort is eying a strong opening […]

An aptitude for basketball flows through Lindsea Vaudt’s family, from her grandfather, through her father and older sisters, all the way down to the 16-year-old varsity guard at Glacier High School. “Every Sunday we would go to Trinity (Lutheran School) gym and play for a few hours,” said Vaudt. Since sixth grade, the weekly routine […]

BIGFORK – It’s no secret in Northwest A girls basketball – Bigfork is the team to beat. Coming off a 20-4 season, the Bigfork Valkyries return five seniors, led by Alyssa Fierro. Fierro, a 6-foot-2-inch post, earned all-state last year after leading the Vals to an 11-1 regular season conference record, a divisional tournament championship […]

A good way to soften the blow of losing seven seniors is to have nine more return the next season, including your two all-conference stars. After placing third in last year’s Class AA state tournament, the Flathead High School girls basketball team not only has nine seniors on this year’s roster, but the Bravettes also […]

Lonnie Porro spins from fluffing a puffy silk sleeve to marking a blue tunic for hemming. After scribbling a few words on note cards hung around her neck, she straightens a 15-inch tall chef hat, securing it as the actor bobs his head. Behind her trails a color riot – pinks, purples, greens, flashing baubles, […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Thursday included the following: 9:33 a.m. Someone called in from Badrock Drive because they had spotted a lone and transient kitten. 12:37 p.m. A resident of Parkside Drive called in to complain that people were driving through their neighborhood shooting paintballs at the white vinyl fence […]

A local nonprofit group has filed a lawsuit against Flathead County Commissioners over a subdivision that could eventually add more than 800 new homes to the Lakeside community. Flathead Lake Protection Association filed the lawsuit in District Court Thursday afternoon, exactly one month after the commissioners voted 2-1 to pass phases 5 through 9 of […]

HELENA (AP) – The Board of Dentistry is trying to soothe a decades-old battle between dentists and denturists that has again surfaced. The board decided Friday to appoint a three-member panel with one denturist, one dentist and the chairman of the board to try to help everyone get along by making rules more clear. Some […]

Live Music: Friday: Can’t Hardly Playboys at Red’s; Silver’s Platter at The Cottage; Good Wood Trio at Blue Canyon; Brad Lee at Scotty’s; Jaywalkers and Connoisseurs of Chaos at Great Northern; Mobile Beat DJ at Red’s Saturday: Big Daddy and The Blue Notes at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake; John Patrick Williams at The Belton […]

Ruth Neff, left, Toni Wells and Sam Neff, right, inspect a panel of brightly colored tiles at a new community monument in Woodland Park in Kalispell. After five years the Community Spirit Monument is being completed and consists of four pillars, each standing 9 feet and weighing around 350 pounds, decorated with nearly 2,000 tiles […]

In real estate one usually believes that there are things buyers do and things sellers should do, and that’s how the process works. And yes, there are long lists of items which need to be covered by buyers and sellers separately, however here is one item, which as a seller, may make your house stand […]

Maybe it is because the Thanksgiving holiday has just passed, but all of this week’s questions are about birds! Our feathered friends come in many shapes, sizes and colors ranging from the bee hummingbird (smallest bird in the world, 2.5 inches in length and .05 ounces) to the largest bird (ostrich, 9-feet tall and over […]

Like the U.S. Highway 93 bypass and mining north of Glacier Park, the massive shopping and housing development by Tennessee developer James “Bucky” Wolford has long existed in the Flathead only as a proposal, and now appears poised to become a reality. But the Glacier Town Center, currently under consideration by the Kalispell Planning Board, […]

Good morning and happy Saint Nicholas Day! The temperature is creeping down as ski season begins Saturday, but the news is breaking fast and furious on the Beacon. Our top story this morning looks at the problems Wolford Development ran up against in the last planning board meeting over its Glacier Town Center proposal, and […]

The World Beard and Moustache Championships are returning to North America in 2009, which – if you didn’t know – is a big deal. It’s only the second time the biannual contest has been held in the states. And Team USA (they have one) is already grooming its collective hair for the competition to be […]