Four months after the usual deadline, Whitefish Mountain Resort is still selling their season pass at the spring sale rate. The company is also making it more convenient to buy and pick up passes. The company at Big Mountain has typically offered discounted rates on their season passes only until mid-May, but this year extended […]

HELENA (AP) – A fast-moving grass fire destroyed one unoccupied house and a few outbuildings Sunday on the west edge of town. There were no injuries reported. The 50-acre blaze, reported at 2 p.m., prompted the evacuation of a mobile home park and several other homes near Spring Meadow Lake, affecting about 500 people, authorities […]

HELENA (AP) – Montana’s farm and ranch population is aging and older workers in agriculture are more likely to die in work-related accidents, according to the Montana Department of Agriculture. The number of Montana fatalities in the occupational category of agriculture, forestry and fishing declined to 45 in 2006, from 50 the previous year, the […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Sunday included the following: 12:45 a.m. A vehicle was returned to its owner with a smashed door after two kids took it for a joyride. 10:47 a.m. Smoke reported on Foothill Road turned out to be a wood burning stove. 11:05 a.m. Money and a checkbook […]

FLATHEAD COUNTY Kalispell City Council and Flathead County Commission will be meeting with Montana Department of Transportation Director Jim Lynch to discuss the Kalispell bypass at noon today. The public is welcome for the meeting at the MDT Construction Conference Room at 85 5th Avenue EN, south of Wendy’s restaurant off U.S. Highway 2. The […]

Good morning and Happy Constitution Day. After a smoky weekend in the Flathead, this morning’s rain was a welcome respite. But that didn’t stop a small, vicious fire in Helena from taking out an unoccupied home yesterday. The AP also reports on the Iraq trip of U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who leveled criticism at […]

Mac Bledsoe holds on to the parenting tip he got from the doctor who delivered his first child. “As he handed that child back to us, he had tears running down his cheeks,” Bledsoe recalled, “he said ‘kids, I want you to remember something; this little fellow here is not yours, never was, never will […]

HELENA (AP) – Three leading Montana representatives should reconsider their efforts to intervene as officials in Canada consider potential mining and drilling on the northern side of the transboundary Flathead River Basin, Canada’s U.S. ambassador and British Columbia’s premier indicated in letters. Ambassador Michael Wilson on Monday told Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester they […]

Full race results from the Two Bear Marathon in Whitefish, Mont., on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007. 1. Jeff Caba – Bend, Ore. – 2:53:32 2. Markus Lehr – Wetzlar, Germany – 2:59:32 3. Brandon French – Kalispell, Mont – 3:02:02 4. Paul Okerberg – Kennesaw, Georgia – 3:02:05 5. Ryan Rein – Mercer Island, Wash. […]

The beginning stages of the Kalispell bypass may seem like a “road to nowhere” if county officials go forward with a plan presented Monday by Stelling engineers and the Montana Department of Transportation. Phases one and two of the plan would include preloading — reinforcement of soft grounds that are expected to sink as much […]

Believe it or not, as of Saturday the 15th, your first five year period of not being interrupted by telemarketers at dinnertime or at 7am on Saturday morning is over. Unless you enjoy the calls of clueless telemarketers (there are smart ones too – just hard to find), pay another visit to http://www.donotcall.gov and re-register […]

A Kalispell firefighter douses wooden shingles on the awning above Western Outdoor Store with water. A fire started in a window box on Main Street in Kalispell, Monday, where residents in the apartment were reportedly putting their cigarettes out in the flower box mounted outside their window. Residents were not home at the time. The […]

Above:Hardly looking winded, Jeff Caba crosses the finish line of the Two Bear Marathon in Whitefish on Sunday. Caba was the overall winner finishing the 26.2-mile marathon in 2:53:32, six seconds shy of the overall best time set in 2005 by James Rucker. Left:Tim Strom, right, congratulates Sheila Nykwist, from Lethbridge, Alberta, after her 11th […]

HELENA (AP) – Political reconciliation isn’t progressing quickly enough in Iraq and congress needs to develop incentives to “give Iraq a good nudge,” Sen. Max Baucus said Saturday. “The clock is ticking as far as I’m concerned,” Baucus, D-Mont., said in a conference call from Iraq. It was Baucus’ first trip to Iraq, where he […]

WHITEFISH – Lori and Mikie diMuro’s Whitefish gallery show focusing on family dynamics, is itself a product of their own familial relationship. Despite late preparations and almost 1,300 miles of separation, the two sisters developed a cohesive oil painting display that opened at the Walking Man Frame Shop and Gallery as part of last Thursday’s […]