BILLINGS (AP) – Matt Komac passed for 302 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score Saturday to lead Montana Tech to a 36-7 victory over Rocky Mountain College. Nolan Lopez added three field goals and Corey Warner rushed for 51 yards, including a 3-yard touchdown that gave the No. 25 Orediggers (5-3, 4-3 […]

La GRANDE, Ore. (AP) – John Barnett passed for 218 yards and rushed for 22 yards and two short-yardage scores Saturday in Carroll College’s 28-7 victory over Eastern Oregon. Shawn Holland forced a fumble on a punt return and Travis Schmidt recovered the ball at the Mountaineers’ 19-yard line. Barnett scored on a quarterback keeper. […]

On Friday night Flathead High’s star junior quarterback Brock Osweiler broke the school record for touchdown passes in a season when he threw five in a 47-20 win over Missoula Hellgate to give him 26 for the season. The previous record was 23. Less than 24 hours later, Lex Hilliard, Flathead’s former standout running back, […]

Live Music: Friday: Good Wood Trio at Scotty’s; Silver Platters at The Cottage; Smart Alex at Great Northern Bar; Andre Floyd at the Blue Canyon, Toby Stone at Raleigh’s Saturday: Tim Torgerson at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake; The Stringers at Puttski’s; Silver Platters at The Cottage; Mobile Beat at Red’s, Smart Alex at the […]

We decorated the house for Halloween this week, doing a little here and a little there. First, the jack-o-lanterns went out, carved on a sunny Sunday afternoon: one goofy, one scary. The previous Saturday we wandered the aisles of Wal-Mart, comparing prices on an orange string of lights, and the cost of one plastic skeleton […]

Timber companies and sawmills endured multiple work stoppages during 2007’s severe fire season, but while flames still flickered, officials at the Plum Creek Timber Company were already planning how to salvage the lumber from tens of thousands of burned acres. According to Plum Creek’s Regional Northwest Manager Tom Ray, the company suffered roughly 41,000 acres […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – Eastern and Western members of the U.S. House clashed sharply Thursday over legislation that would designate almost 20 million acres of Western land as wilderness. Western members angrily criticized the bill, which is sponsored by two members from the East Coast – Reps. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., and Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn. It […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Thursday included the following: 7:52 a.m. A heartless individual shot a horse with a pellet on Lake Blaine Rd. 10:27 a.m. A person called a business and threatened to blow it up. 10:38 a.m. Shots were fired at a coffee shop in Coram. 12:54 p.m. Two […]

Good morning and happy Evaluate Your Life Day. I think they purposely put this day on a Friday so people would have more positive outlooks. No one wants to get introspective on a Monday. We’ve got a couple of neat items on the Beacon today. Topping news, Montana’s lawmakers in Washington are indignant in their […]

Fair warning: “I Stand Before You Naked” isn’t your “Hello, Dolly!” sort of play. Not that it won’t be funny and entertaining at times, said co-director Leah Lindsay, but the play aims to serve a broader purpose, too. “We choose this play because it represents a lot of the issues people here in the community […]

Before George W. Bush was re-elected. Before Howard Dean screamed. Before John Kerry was swift boated. There was a rallying cry among some on the left that if Bush, the man they love to hate, won the 2004 election they would follow through on this threat: “I’m moving to Canada if that happens.” Oh Canada. […]

Three days after city firefighters removed their belongings from the downtown fire station because of a dispute between the local firefighters’ union and Kalispell city officials, they’re moving almost everything back in. By Friday afternoon, the union charter will once again hang on the wall. In a press release Friday, officials from the Local 547 […]

Both the Montana and Montana State football teams are looking to improve their offensive production in home games Saturday. Montana (6-0, 3-0), which fell to a third-place ranking in the Sports Network poll after three lackluster wins, plays host to Northern Colorado (0-7, 0-3), which is still looking for its first win this season. No. […]

It is time for Commissioner Gary Hall to tone down his rhetoric and allow for a more measured and rational discourse about the relationship between Whitefish and Flathead County. Recent newspaper reports indicate Mr. Hall would like Whitefish to adopt a gateway planning approach more like that of Columbia Falls. I seriously doubt the majority […]

Walking through fields of frozen tundra around Columbia Falls, Michael Hader has time to relax. It is his time away from the stadium lights: when he can forget about wrestling and football. Instead he can concentrate at the task at hand – find more and larger antlers in a season than his dad. Horn hunting, […]