Secluded on the shores of Little Bitterroot Lake, the Kelsey Cummings Park is located just north of Marion and provides access to an oft-ignored place in the Flathead area. Visitors can park at a small lot located near the park and enjoy the views from the water’s edge and lunch at one of the picnic […]

Stretched across a state and two provinces, the Crown of the Continent is one of the last wild places in America and now it is being highlighted in a report by the U.S. Department of Interior promoting the outdoors. The report, to be released this week, features two prominent projects in each state that reconnect […]

Thanksgiving is fast approaching and once the festivities are all said and done we are faced with the same question every year …“What do we do with all the leftovers?” And while I really love a good turkey cranberry sandwich, after day two and sandwich four or five I’m ready for something different, something that […]

BILLINGS – A hospital official says a 15-year-old cross country runner who collapsed at the State A cross country meet Oct. 22 has died. Spokeswoman JoAnn Hoven says Seamus Camp died Friday at St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula. The Park High School student in Livingston collapsed during the 3-mile race at the University of Montana […]

HELENA – An official for a Texas-based company says it is close to finalizing a deal to buy 160 acres near the tiny town of Bynum in northwestern Montana where it would build processing modules destined for tar sands in Canada. Charlie Hay, senior site manager for Lauren Engineers & Constructors, said the Abilene-based company […]

A project by the Montana Community Development Corporation has been awarded top honors by the Novogradac Community Development Foundation for using new markets tax credits to assist Stinger Welding in Libby. Montana CDC, a Missoula-based nonprofit small business lender, helped secure $17 million for Stinger Welding to complete a steel fabrication plant earlier this year […]

HELENA – U.S. Sen. Max Baucus said Friday he will sponsor a bill to expand the wilderness on the Rocky Mountain Front, saying the proposal has a good chance of being the first wilderness designation in the state since the early 1980s. Conservationists who have been working on the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act for […]

Montana wildlife officials say biologists have captured and relocated nine grizzly bears in northwestern Montana over the past two weeks. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks said in a statement Friday that eight of the bears were captured in several incidents in the northeastern Flathead Valley, from killing chickens and a sheep to getting into pig […]

HELENA – Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer told downstream Missouri River states Friday that they are free to adjust their flood management plans as long as they leave his state out of it. Schweitzer said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has indicated it will change its management plan if all the states along the river […]

Elementary school classrooms across the district remain overcrowded and the Kalispell School Board is hoping to find a solution with an updated long-range facility plan. Superintendent Darlene Schottle presented a planning proposal draft at an Oct. 25 school board work session that would modernize the current facility plan to address new and future challenges in […]

Having the reputation of being a glass-half-full guy and one who often operates outside the realm of reality, I’ve never really been concerned about naysayers who choose either to respectively disagree or even malign my point of view. I sometimes wonder what their motives are to be so disagreeable or opinionated, but, of course, I […]

Asking a Flathead Bravette volleyball player what it takes to win the state title yields a response that has shades of psychology. The Bravette will tell you that the differences between going home empty handed and hoisting the shiny trophy at year’s end are decided only partly by what goes on inside the painted lines […]

Wednesday 10/26 8:39 a.m. Items were stolen from a docked boat in Lakeside. 9:01 a.m. A Bigfork resident reported that a man came over and maliciously took down their creepy Halloween decorations. 11:48 a.m. A naughty hound dog was chasing cars on Beaver Lake Drive. 12:54 p.m. Two abandoned ferrets were rescued. 2:29 p.m. Someone […]

A state judge has denied a request for a temporary restraining order to prevent a student charged with assaulting teammates on a freshman football bus from returning to classes at Glacier High School on Monday. Attorney Sean Frampton, of Whitefish, filed a petition Wednesday on behalf of the parents of three Glacier High students who […]

BILLINGS – Police in Billings are investigating after someone left a newborn baby in a bathroom at St. Vincent Healthcare. Sgt. Neil Lawrence says police were called to the hospital at about 4:30 p.m. Thursday after someone found the baby wrapped in a towel and lying on the floor. St. Vincent spokeswoman Danielle Grusonik says […]