“I think there are other ways to fight than with weapons,” says Debi Strong, Montana’s state coordinator for the Department of Peace. About a year ago, Strong saw a friend wearing a pin reading “Peace is Patriotic”. When she asked about it, the friend directed her to the Peace Alliance website. “I was just so […]

Solemn Remembrance: Captain Katie Edwards remains still as cars passing the Bigfork Fire Department honk in recognition of Sept. 11, 2001. Beginning at 6:46 a.m., the time in Montana when the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center in New York, firefighters took turns standing in stoic remembrance, rotating each hour. “It’s really an […]

Eleven teachers at Whitefish Christian Academy opened their doors last week for the new school year. But instead of launching the year under its old moniker—Cross Currents Christian School—the 25-year-old institution leapt into the academic year with a new name. “Our name has been under discussion for three or four years now,” said Kent Morrison, […]

Thirty-four years is a long time to wait. But for Neil Jacobson, the wait ended Sept. 1, when he could hunt mountain goats in Montana for the first time. Jacobson, a Kalispell native, has been applying for a mountain goat permit the last 34 years and drew one in the Crazy Mountains this year. Last […]

The Kalispell Police and Flathead County Sheriff’s reports for Sunday included the following: 12:42 a.m. A woman’s obnoxious ex-boyfriend was harassing her with threatening phone calls. 1:44 a.m. There was a bull on the loose on Columbia Falls Stage. 2 a.m. A woman’s husband hit her in the head. She proceeded to throw stuff at […]

Kalispell City Council, along with employees of the planning department, public works, and City Manager Jim Patrick, will take a two-hour bus trip of the city’s new developments beginning at 6 p.m. tonight. It will not be a formal meeting. The tour will visit: residential developments like Empire Estates, Mountain Vista Estates, West View Estates; […]

Fall is here. The tiles of the bathroom floor are getting much colder in the morning – that’s how you tell. I kept the windows closed last night; this morning the bedroom was quiet and warm. The Harleys and trucks lacking mufflers rattling up the street don’t have the power to bolt me out of […]

In a Washington D.C. meeting with executives for British Petroleum, U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., issued his harshest rebukes yet for BP’s coalbed methane exploration proposal in the Canadian Flathead, according to a release sent from his office Monday afternoon. Baucus also called for public meetings in Kalispell to allow Montanans to weigh in on […]

MISSOULA (AP) – Lex Hilliard was efficient, Cole Bergquist was perfect and 73 Griz players saw action in Montana’s 49-0 shutout of Division II Fort Lewis Saturday. Hilliard, who missed last season after rupturing his Achilles tendon, rushed for three first-quarter touchdowns while Bergquist completed all 13 of his passes for 163 yards and a […]

If Logan Pass is still on the family “to-do” list, there are less than two weeks left to drive the nearly 50-mile scenic drive from one side of Glacier National Park to the other on Going-to-the-Sun Road. Beginning at 10 p.m. on Sept. 16, the Going-to-the-Sun Road will be closed to vehicle traffic from Avalanche […]

ANACONDA (AP) – Democratic Sen. Jon Tester has found a more demanding crowd in Montana than the one he left last year as an upstart candidate. On his first extended trip since taking office, the senator traveled Montana during the congressional recess and everyone wanted a piece of him — and more federal money. The […]

GREAT FALLS (AP) – A British man who overstayed his visa and was found with a gun in Glacier National Park received a 14-month prison sentence. A federal judge Thursday sentenced Kano Diebitsch, 32, for being an alien in possession of a firearm. He pleaded guilty last spring. A snowplow operator on the park’s Going-to-the-Sun […]

Friday night’s home opener for the Wildcat football team proved to be the challenge that Coach John Thompson expected: stopping the option. Butte Central’s senior QB Matt Ritter ran the option like few high school QBs can, leading his team to a 40-14 victory on Columbia Falls’ home field. After returning the 2nd half opening […]

In mid-August The Council on Foundations met in Missoula at the invitation of U.S. Sen. Max Baucus. This was a very significant event for many reasons but I want to focus on just a few. The Council on Foundations has never been to Montana. Who are they? The trade group that counts among its members […]

In California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, cagey black bears rip down hanging backpacker food bags and tear out car windows to steal coolers. But not in Glacier Park, where the densest population of Northwest Montana grizzly bears reside. Sierra bears aren’t smarter than Glacier bears; they’ve learned these behaviors. “We wouldn’t tolerate that behavior here,” says […]