Located north of the resort community's downtown core, Viking Creek and its surrounding wetland functions as a water-cleansing "kidney" protecting Whitefish Lake. Water quality advocates say its preservation — and recent restoration — is an example of how private land stewardship can have community-wide benefits.

The provincial government imposed the administrative penalties against Glencore's EVR Operations Limited, formerly Teck Coal, for failing to comply with an order that it curb selenium and nitrate pollution in the Elk and Kootenai river watershed

More than 2,000 hunters appeared at four northwest Montana game check stations on opening weekend, with 10.6% reporting success

The Whitefish Community Foundation's annual fundraising campaign supported 85 Flathead Valley nonprofit organizations with record-breaking matching grants

Voters will cast their ballots by mail in November's municipal election, which in Whitefish features three incumbent councilors and one newcomer

With support from the wood products industry and hunting and fishing groups, the Montana Land Board's 4-1 vote ensures working forests between Kalispell and Libby remain in timber production while allowing permanent public access

How heavy music is transforming lives in the Blackfeet Nation

The 140-acre conservation easement on private land between Haskill and Lazy creeks came together through a collaboration between local landowners, Flathead Land Trust and Heart of the Rockies Institute

At the Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, budget cuts and layoffs could jettison decades of cutting-edge research propping up the ecology and economy of the Crown of the Continent

A spate of winter weather closed the scenic highway’s alpine sections on Oct. 4, but officials announced Wednesday the road was open from West Glacier to St. Mary. Closures on the Highline Trail were also lifted.

The nonprofit Climate Smart Glacier Country will host a free Oct. 23 screening of “One in Five Hundred,” a documentary about the 2022 Yellowstone flood. A panel discussion about flood readiness and lessons learned from the 1964 Flathead floods will follow.

Although the alpine highway remains closed to Logan Pass from the west side, park officials have lifted the closure from the east.

The annual year-end fundraising event for the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation will be Oct. 10 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Flathead County Fairgrounds

We don’t need someone to come save us and build 1,000 new homes. We need neighbors willing to work together to provide common-sense, community-minded solutions.

Autumn in the Flathead Valley means events for the whole family