Live Music: Friday: Barton & Brick at Blondie’s; Miles Fortenberry at Cottage Inn; United We Sing at Glacier High School Auditorium; Carla Green at Symes Hot Springs Hotel; Marshall Catch at Elks Lodge; Christian Johnson & Loose Caboose at Eagles Club; Be a Star Karaoke at South Fork Saloon; Scott Fisher and 1 A.M. Approach […]

After watching all but one of her granddaughter’s volleyball games this season, Carolyn Hagadorn felt confident enough to make a reservation at a Bozeman hotel almost two weeks before the state tournament. The Polson girls made sure Hagadorn won’t need to cancel it. For the fourth year in a row, the Polson Lady Pirates are […]

HELENA – Montana has started issuing permits to an Exxon Mobil subsidiary to ship about 300 loads of oversized oil refinery equipment over interstates 90 and 15 to the northern border, a state transportation official said Wednesday. The Montana Department of Transportation has so far issued permits for six loads to travel from the Idaho-Montana […]

The President has ordered our troops home from Iraq by year’s end, but it was President George W. Bush who first announced this withdrawal date of Dec. 31, 20ll. President Barack Obama is enforcing that timetable despite the opposition from some. Bush is the person who ordered us into the war in Iraq and now […]

On a day when the Dow dropped almost 400 points, and in a host state with double-digit unemployment, the Republican presidential candidates in their ninth debate forum Wednesday night forfeited the animosities of past meetings in favor of a substantive discussion of the economy. The topic allowed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to shine during […]

WHITEFISH – In Chuck Gailey’s basement office, what he believes is the future of home design and building sits on a computer screen. Various windows are open on the screen, all displaying the complex workings of a timber frame home that is being constructed a few miles away along KM Ranch Road, just west of […]

POLSON – The Montana Supreme Court rejected an appeal filed by a man who is serving a 10-year prison term for trying to steal a $400,000 house in foreclosure by breaking in, changing the locks and filing paperwork in Lake County saying he bought the house from “the creator, Yahweh.” Brent Arthur Wilson, who insisted […]

WASHINGTON – The State Department has ordered the developer of a pipeline that would carry oil from western Canada to Texas to reroute it from environmentally sensitive areas of Nebraska, possibly delaying a final U.S. decision until after the 2012 election. The decision, described to The Associated Press by two senior State Department officials familiar […]

Under new director, Kalispell schools food service becoming healthier, more locally focused

Monday 11/07 8:49 a.m. A Columbia Falls mom found a knife in her son’s bedroom and assumed it was stolen. 9:54 a.m. A man on Whitefish Stage reported that during an argument about a dog, his shotgun-wielding neighbor threatened to shoot him. 10:13 a.m. A Columbia Falls man claimed that his trigger-happy neighbor doesn’t like […]

PASADENA, Calif. — Wildlife advocates appeared in federal court Tuesday seeking to stop gray wolf hunts that are already well under way in the Northern Rockies, arguing that Congress overstepped its authority in stripping federal protections from the canines. Federal biologists say the wolf population is healthy enough to support the hunts in Idaho and […]

BOZEMAN – Two MSU students have acknowledged illegally killing a 2-year-old black bear in Bozeman. Abdullah Yassin, a senior, and Ahmad Malallah, a junior, appeared in court Tuesday and pleaded guilty to four hunting violations each. Yassin was sentenced to eight days in jail, fined $2,700 and had his hunting license revoked for 60 months. […]

The final unofficial election results are in. Muhlfeld elected mayor in Whitefish. Anderson, Hildner and Sweeney elected to Whitefish City Council. Saverud and Guiffrida elected in Kalispell. Karper, Plevel and Fisher elected in Columbia Falls. Whitefish unofficial election results VOTER TURNOUT: 53 percent WHITEFISH MAYOR (Projected winner) John Muhlfeld – 1,481 (64%) Turner Askew – […]

Apollo Child spent a year fighting for his country in Iraq. When he returned home to Kalispell, a happy wife and newborn baby were waiting for him, but a job wasn’t. He’s been unemployed for two months now and he’s beginning to have flashbacks to his poverty-stricken childhood. “I can’t let Nathan go through the […]

JACKSON, Miss. – Abortion opponents say they’re still pursuing life-at-fertilization ballot initiatives in six other states after Bible Belt voters in Mississippi defeated one Tuesday. The “personhood” proposal was intended to prompt a legal challenge aimed at overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established a legal right to abortion. Keith […]