11:47 a.m. A resident on Hilltop Road in Columbia Falls reported that someone has been rifling through neighborhood mailboxes and opening mail. 1:57 p.m. Someone on Holt Drive is missing two full gas cans. 2:37 p.m. Reportedly, a tattooed man with an “Abe Lincoln beard” approached numerous elderly women on Highway 2 East and asked […]
Bigfork, Columbia Falls and Libby each welcome top educators as students head back to class
Woman became pregnant through artificial insemination
Evan Thomas Bryman pleads not guilty to criminal endangerment, drug possession
Karren Schmiedeke charged with threatening men who were repossessing her recliner
Travis James Hopkins threatened family with a toy gun on Aug. 4
The refinery equipment is 21 feet wide and 17 feet tall
8:05 a.m. One mailbox on Fairmont Road was found smashed to bits. 8:14 a.m. According to one concerned resident, someone on a four-wheeler was driving too fast down Blacktail Road. 9:20 a.m. Someone found a mountain bike tossed over the river bank near Martin City. 9:32 a.m. A girl called from the Kila area complaining […]
Christopher Robert Showen appeared in Flathead County District Court on Aug. 21
10:21 a.m. There was talk of illegal dumping activity at the green box site in Somers. 10:40 a.m. A complaint was made about a woman in pajama pants who attempted to cash a check for her “mother” at numerous businesses in Bigfork. 10:49 a.m. A woman on Solberg Drive complained that the neighbor’s cat is […]
Evergreen woman was convicted of two counts of deliberate homicide in 2011
9:05 a.m. Two wayward ponies were captured and returned to their pasture. 9:37 a.m. A princess bike and one Spiderman bike were stolen from two kids on Kelly Road. 10:06 a.m. A Bigfork man complained that every summer his family steals and destroys his road-side business signs. 12:24 p.m. Two unfriendly-looking girls were seen spray […]
Incident occurred on Aug. 17 on Wild Horse Island State Park
The refinery equipment is 21 feet wide and 17 feet tall
8:13 a.m. A man driving down East Reserve Drive reported that another man in a small red car cut him off and pointed a gun in his direction. 10:04 a.m. A small shaggy dog was rooting around near the garbage behind a fast food restaurant in Kalispell. 11:26 a.m. An irritated resident on Swan Hill […]
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Faced with revised counting methodology that dramatically reduces the state’s estimated wolf population, commissioners approved a scaled-down quota of 300 wolves in Montana
The Democrat’s Monday pledge to remain in the race offered a final word on the dropout question, eliciting a mixed response from left-leaning voters in the Flathead as the divide clears a path for Republican Kurt Alme to hold onto Montana's open Senate seat.
The Center for Asbestos Related Disease has served as the small town’s screening clinic for more than two decades, offering care during one of the largest public health disasters in U.S. history. After filing for bankruptcy and losing a federal grant to continue funding its services, the clinic will close permanently at the end of August.
