A dispute between Kalispell city officials and the local firefighters union resulted in city firefighters removing many of the items they keep around the downtown station to make it more comfortable. Firefighters spent much of Tuesday morning loading their amenities into a truck to put in storage, including mattresses, cans of coffee, televisions, two refrigerators, […]

KALISPELL (AP) – Law-enforcement officers from throughout the region paid respects at the funeral for David Graham, a Montana Highway Patrol trooper killed when a pickup truck hit his patrol car on U.S. 2. The death of 36-year-old David Graham on Tuesday came 13 months after he joined the patrol. Nearly 1,000 people gathered at […]

Jesse Culp has her work cut out for her. A recent arrival to the Flathead, she has scheduled the performance of her new theater production to premiere in the fall of 2008 at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish. But she has yet to assemble a cast, script, set, music or just about anything else required […]

Katie McGunagle is only 14. Yet she’ll soon claim credit that she is published—a goal of aspiring writers twice her age. Creative Kids, the nation’s largest magazine by and for kids, plans to publish McGunagle’s poem “Going Home” this year. Like many of her poems, “Going Home” paints a slice of her day. The 2-1/2-page […]

Comedy opens the Whitefish Theatre Company season this Friday when Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit hits the stage. Coward’s award-winning play written in 1941 broke British box office records when it ran for 1,997 consecutive performances in London’s West End and reigned for three decades as a hit. The comedy unleashes a ghost on the unsuspecting […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) – A co-defendant in the O.J. Simpson armed robbery case told a judge Monday he would plead guilty to a felony and testify against Simpson and four others in the hotel room theft of sports collectibles from two memorabilia dealers. The plea agreement with Charles Cashmore, a 40-year-old Billings, Mont., native, ups […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Sunday included the following: 2:37 a.m. A Kalispell resident called the Sheriff’s Department when an unfamiliar man and woman were obnoxiously yelling at each other outside of her trailer. 4:58 a.m. A rifle and a spotting scope were taken out of an unlocked vehicle on McMannamy […]

Good morning and happy National Grouch Day. Is that an oxymoron? Topping the Beacon this morning, Whitefish contributor Becky Lomax has two stories out of there. A big kudos to Katie McGunagle, a Whitefish sophomore getting a poem published in a national magazine. Lomax also reports on the season opener of the Whitefish Theatre Company, […]

It’s not often Flathead County residents can open the New York Times and read what have become common household names in the valley: Gov. Brian Schweitzer, Plum Creek Timber, and Bill Foley. In the second of a series of articles looking at changing demands on federal owned lands in the West, reporter Kirk Johnson published […]

WHITEFISH The Whitefish City Council will hold a public hearing on its growth policy at 7:10 p.m. Monday night at City Hall. The council is deciding whether to adopt the current draft of the document, which provides a framework for monitoring land use and development. It’s the final step of a process that has been […]

From free bus rides to half price season tickets, the Glacier Symphony and Chorale is doing what it can to bring newcomers to the show. Once there, music director John Zoltek is confident people will like what they hear. “I often have people from bigger cities who have moved here tell me they are surprised […]

WHITEFISH – About halfway through the wall-sit, Holly Stevenson tried to distract us from the intense burning sensation in our thighs by asking the class’s participants to think about their favorite part of skiing – be it the perfect powder day or simply walking into the Bierstube to down a cold one. Stevenson – a […]

“Gentlemen, the range is open. Put your ears on.” And with those words from Barry Hatton of the Whitefish Rod and Gun Club, gun-toting citizens armed themselves with their hunting rifles, put their ear protection on, and commenced to firing their guns Sunday at the club’s rifle range on KM Ranch Road. About 85 people, […]

Grace Nikae was a long way from home this weekend. The Hawaii native, who lives in Madrid, Spain, descended on Kalispell this weekend with her impeccable piano talents for the opening of the Glacier Symphony and Chorale’s 25th season. Playing along side the Glacier Symphony, Nikae wowed the crowds Saturday night and Sunday afternoon with […]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) – Torrey Thomas returned an interception 17 yards for a touchdown late in the fourth quarter to highlight a strong defensive effort Saturday afternoon that helped top-ranked Montana defeat Sacramento State 17-3. Montana scored a first-quarter touchdown and never trailed against the upset-minded Hornets, who have never beaten Montana, losing for the […]