The local Disabled Recreation and Environmental Access Movement (DREAM) is looking for volunteers to help children and adults with disabilities enjoy the ski slopes on Big Mountain this winter. Volunteers will act as instructors and ski buddies and help someone else experience the thrill of skiing. The DREAM is a great program and a very […]

Jane Howington has had to make several tough decisions since taking over as Kalispell’s city manager in 2009. She made another one last week and it appears to be her last in Kalispell. Howington announced she was resigning after two years to take the city manager position in Newport, R.I. Howington, who is currently on […]

HELENA – An appeals court has upheld a judge’s dismissal of a challenge to a proposed mine in northwestern Montana. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Wednesday that Judge Donald Molloy’s ruling in favor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Revett Minerals was proper. Revett wants to mine up to 10,000 […]

“I was there.” Those are three powerful words in the right circumstances. They imply a first-hand knowledge that only a few can legitimately claim. In grade school we were taught that primary sources, those who were there, were the best to cite in term papers. When it comes to Inventoried Roadless Areas, I can say, […]

HELENA – Federal and state law enforcement officials raided at least three western Montana medical marijuana operations Wednesday in what appears to be a new round in the crackdown on medical pot providers in the state. Kate Cholewa of the Montana Cannabis Industry Association said Big Sky Health and Kind Caregivers in Missoula, and Glacier […]

A 15-year-old boy who had been suspended from Glacier High School for an incident on a freshman football bus in September won’t be returning to classes this school year. The boy, who faces charges of misdemeanor assault in Flathead County Youth Court along with another 15-year-old, had been scheduled to return to classes on Oct. […]

Just over two weeks before opening day, snow continues to cover Whitefish Mountain Resort and employees are preparing for what looks like another good upcoming winter. With a La Niña winter being forecast for the second year in a row, the 2011-2012 season is scheduled to start on Big Mountain on Dec. 3. La Niña, […]

PITTSBURGH – An Idaho man accused of firing an assault rifle at the White House was charged Thursday with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama or his staff, and prosecutors say he called Obama “the devil” and said he needed to be killed. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, of Idaho Falls, made his first court appearance before […]

GREAT FALLS — An outside investigator has been hired to look into allegations that Great Falls High faculty knew about hazing in the football locker room but failed to stop it. Assistant superintendent Tom Moore said his office will work with the investigator, but he declined to comment further. Senior offensive lineman Alex Botina-Roehm, 18, […]

BILLINGS — Federal officials on Thursday rejected a $5.3 million offer from a company seeking a lease to mine 35.5 million tons of coal that is in the path of a major underground mine in Montana. The Bureau of Land Management said the coal is worth more than the 15 cents per ton that Signal […]

In politics, one often hears of a pendulum, which swings left and right but in theory is best for the greatest number of voters when it approaches the center. Last week, Whitefish’s city council and mayor elections produced a decisive swing to the left, and one of the winning candidates, John Anderson, says the pendulum […]

AMERICAN FALLS, Idaho – The Idaho State Police say a 29-year-old Montana man is charged with trafficking marijuana after being stopped in Idaho with 23 pounds of the drug with a street value estimated at $115,000. ISP officials say Philip E. Grossi of Bozeman was pulled over for a traffic violation on Interstate 86 near […]

There are regulars and then there’s Ray McMillan. On a gray Thursday morning, McMillan, 90, sat at a small table at Sykes Grocery and Market and waited for a friend. Unlike most people who swing by the local landmark to pick up a few groceries or grab a bite to eat, McMillan remembers when penny […]

Leftist journalist Naomi Klein wrote the books “No Logo” and “The Shock Doctrine.” The social activist spoke at the Occupy Wall Street movement indicating that they can fulfill on the promises of the 1999 global trade action in Seattle. That was the last time a global and youth-led movement took aim at corporate power. Asked […]

MISSOULA — A Polson man is charged with pretending to be his friend, going as far as putting on the man’s deodorant, in an attempt to rape the friend’s sleeping girlfriend. Vaughn David James, 39, appeared in court Monday where Justice of the Peace John Odlin ordered him held on $250,000 bail on a charge […]