18 – Touchdowns thrown by junior quarterback Brock Osweiler with three regular season games remaining 23 – School record for touchdown passes in a season 279 – Passing yards per game by Osweiler 96 – Length in yards of Sam Tedrow’s opening touchdown kickoff return against Great Falls High 799 – Receiving yards by Michael […]

27 – Consecutive victories for boys soccer team; the defending state champs enter state tournament with 12-0 record 14 – Assists by soccer star Preston Taylor; first in the state 17 – Goals scored by Jonas Magstadt; first in the state 717 – Team score for girls golf team to win state tournament for second […]

6 – Blocks by Emilee Hashley against Missoula Sentinel 4 – Blocks by entire Sentinel team 131 – Passing yards per game by sophomore Shay Smithwick-Hann 7 – Smithwick-Hann’s rank in state for passing yards 1 – Wiley Fusaro’s rank on team in rushing, receiving, punt return and kick return yards Sports by the numbers […]

20 – Goals scored by Kassi Hebert (regular season play is over) 9 – Next highest goal total by single player in Northwest A 102 – Rushing yards by junior running back Josh Wilson in 18-13 win over Polson 108 – Rushing yards by Mackie Nolan against Polson 661 – Total rushing yards for Wilson, […]

37 – Blocks for season by volleyball star Alyssa Fierro; first in the conference 17 – Kills by Fierro against Columbia Falls 98 – Serving percentage by Claire Wilken, first in the conference 21 – Points scored by Bigfork’s football team in 48-21 loss to Ronan 30 – Total points scored in Vikings’ five other […]

HELENA (AP) – School officials in Montana still believe the state should be providing more money for public education, but for now aren’t planning to go back to court over it. Instead, they’re focusing on persuading the powers that be that school funding needs to be fixed if the state is to maintain a solid […]

Kalispell City Council meets tonight at 7 p.m. for a work session, at which no votes are allowed, to consider three issues. The developers of River’s Bend, a 160-acre residential development northeast of town will present their project for consideration. Council will also receive an update on the merger of the 911 emergency response system […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Sunday included the following: 1:35 a.m. An assault took place at the Blue Moon. 2:14 a.m. A deer was injured at the Holiday Inn Gas Station. 3:24 a.m. There was a suspicious pedestrian wandering around on Helena Flats Road. 9:49 a.m. A dead deer needed to […]

Good morning and happy Columbus day. On the Beacon this morning, Keriann Lynch covers the final Whitefish downtown art walk, and writes about a five-woman group of collaborative artists who have been passing their sketchbooks around and displayed their best work last week. Whitefish contributor Becky Lomax writes about Imagination Station, the local toy shops […]

Sometimes it’s easy to forget about war. To turn off the television and go about your daily life, unaffected by what’s happening across the ocean. To detach from the stories you read, the soldiers, the body counts and bombs. But about once every two weeks I get a wake up call. It comes in the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. Sen. Max Baucus continues to rake in large amounts of cash for his re-election campaign next year, heading off formidable Republican opposition so far. The Montana Democrat raised a total of $7.4 million by Sept. 30, according to campaign finance records released Monday. He raised $1.4 million from July through September […]

Right now it’s just a field of dirt and mud. In a year, this will be a field of dreams. At a barren field at the Kidsports athletic complex near Flathead Valley Community College, construction is under way to help create a state-of-the-art ball field for children with disabilities. The field is being built along […]

You won’t find Barbie dolls, plastic superhero accessories, or “Pirates of the Caribbean” action figures in two Flathead Valley toy stores. But you will find quality. As lead paint scares plague parents, niche toy shops like Imagination Station sail above the box stores. While discount outlets recently yanked Mattel and Fisher-Price recalls from their shelves, […]

During halftime of last Friday’s Wildcat football game against Polson, the Columbia Falls Junior High sixth grade football team took the field, split into Red and Gold squads. Following are some photos of their brief moment in the spotlight. In sixth grade “ironman” football, everyone plays both offense and defense.  &nbsp: Gold runs a dive […]

HELENA, Mont. (AP) _ Gov. Brian Schweitzer, so far unopposed for re-election, continues to sock away campaign money in case a challenger steps forward. Schweitzer reported raising $175,000 this quarter, for a total of more than $750,000 this election cycle. The Democrat reported having $452,320 in the bank. A Republican who stepped into the race […]