HAVRE (AP) – Drew Hedrick passed for 249 yards, including a 49-yard touchdown pass to Jason Hagadone as time ran out, to lift Rocky Mountain College to a 16-10 win over Montana State-Northern on Saturday. Northern (5-5, 4-5) had tied the score at 10-all on a 9-yard touchdown pass from Garren Hammons to Don Saisbury […]

After the first rounds of the Class A and AA football playoffs, the Flathead Valley has no hopefuls left. On Friday the Flathead Braves lost to Billings Senior 27-20 in the first round of the Class AA state tourney. Columbia Falls and Whitefish each lost a week earlier in the first round of the Class […]

Live Music: Friday: Brad Lee at Scotty’s; Silver’s Platter at The Cottage; Russ Nasset at the Great Northern; Good Wood Trio at Blue Canyon Saturday: Bluestone Trio at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake; Russ Nasset at the Great Northern; Mobile Beat at Red’s Wines and Blues Sports: Friday: Winter Rodeo Series at Majestic Valley Arena […]

Losing 43-10 is never good, but it could be worse. Despite being crushed by Helena Capital in the regular season’s final game, the Flathead Braves finished the game right where they started: as the seventh seed in this weekend’s Class AA football state tournament. Capital (9-1) wrapped up the No. 1 seed. The Braves are […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Thursday and Friday morning included the following: 7:13 a.m. A Kalispell man came over to his ex-girlfriend’s house to find her with another man. As he left the residence he kicked the car. 10:13 a.m. A person broke into a house that is under construction in […]

MISSOULA – While Whitefish’s Block 46 project recently hit a roadblock because of downtown height concerns, Paul Johannsen’s other groundbreaking development is well underway. Johannsen presented both Block 46 and The Homestead at Whitefish to a roomful of real estate agents, developers, planners, economists and a host of others involved in land use at the […]

Once a year, Kalispell’s Hockaday museum has a coming out party for its members. And each year the show gets bolder, brassier and bigger. The members’ revelation: an abundance of artistic talent. “I’d say about 20 percent of these people are professional artists, people who make their living doing this,” said Lucy Smith, the Hockaday’s […]

Good morning and happy National Traffic Directors Day. The top regional and state news story this morning details the Canadian government’s about-face on its policy of seeking the extradition of its citizens who are one death row – the development makes it highly unlikely convicted murderer Ronald A. Smith will avoid execution in Montana. And, […]

The city of Fernie, British Columbia, is waiting for an apology from Whitefish after the Whitefish City Council inadvertently passed a resolution in conjunction with Fernie – which the British Columbia resort town had never heard of. “Not only had we not endorsed it, we’d never seen it,” said Alan Young, a Fernie city council […]

The Montana Grizzlies are looking to wrap up at least a tie for their 10th straight Big Sky Conference football title Saturday, while Montana State needs a win over Northern Arizona to stay in the running for second place in the league standings. No. 4 Montana (8-0, 5-0 Big Sky) takes on Portland State (2-6, […]

CORAM (AP) – An employee at the Great Bear Adventure drive-through bear park in Coram was mauled by a grizzly bear Friday afternoon. Flathead County Sheriff’s Lt. Bob Provo says the 23-year-old man was mauled in the groin and flown to Kalispell Regional Medical Center for treatment. Coram and West Glacier fire officials say the […]

Last night at the Columbia Falls High School, Director Karen Ulmer’s bands filled the house for their first standing room only concert of the school year. Despite the fact that Tuesday night is full of activities all over town, the newly remodeled Columbia Falls High School Little Theater was packed to the rafters with kids, […]

HELENA (AP) – The slaying of two caring young men in 1982 had a devastating effect on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, friends and family said Wednesday in an emotional plea to the governor not to commute the sentence of a Canadian national on death row for the slayings. Ronald A. Smith, of Red Deer, Alberta, […]

When Jerry House moved to Whitefish, he planned on leading the life of a retiree. Instead, he leapt to the head of the class as the superintendent of Whitefish School District. That was seven years ago. This month, House was awarded Montana Superintendent of the Year for 2006-07. House received this award at the Montana […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Wednesday included the following: 9:48 a.m. A woman veered off the highway in Columbia Falls and bailed out of her SUV when her break peddle jammed. Her vehicle plowed through a ditch, barbed-wire fence and slammed into a barn at about 50 to 60 mph. The […]