Even as park officials bolster the workforce with seasonal recruits, challenges persist as scores of Glacier Park employees face a March 26 deadline to accept buyouts or early retirement

As tariff-induced tensions escalate between the two countries, business owners in Eureka say they continue to see regular Canadian customers, attributing a drop in travel to the pandemic-era border closure and the weak dollar that has chilled Canadian spending in recent years

As the Montana Legislature hits its halfway point, dozens of natural resource bills have emerged regarding land-use policies, outdoor recreation, fish and wildlife initiatives, and more. Some have died — like a bill to reclassify e-bikes as nonmotorized vehicles and a measure to restrict state land leases with nonprofit organizations — while others have advanced.

An uptick in reporting and testing requirements has placed an undue burden on Montana’s small school superintendents. Five schools in Flathead County are set to lose their top administrators this year.

At the Legislature, Medicaid expansion is poised for extension; a new Flathead County program offers free heart screenings; plus, Market Metrics and Financial Corner

In many cases, laid-off seasonal employees had worked for the U.S. Forest Service for years or even decades — cleaning campgrounds and clearing trails, supporting firefighters and securing funds for wildfire mitigation — but their probationary clocks were reset last year during an agency-wide “temporary-to-permanent” workforce conversion initiative

From Glacier Park to the Bob Marshall Wilderness, the Trump administration’s cuts have gutted a federal workforce responsible for maintaining safety, access and ecological health across millions of acres of public land in Northwest Montana

The Blackfeet are rebuilding food security and traditional knowledge through their blossoming bison program

The order granting summary judgment to a California couple who built a home in Glacier National Park without a permit says a local conservation district has no authority to enforce Montana’s streambed law inside the park's boundaries

Industry leaders are working to expand access to childcare and brainstorm ways to accommodate the workforce in Flathead County; plus, Market Metrics and Financial Corner

The Kalispell Republican is presiding over a state Senate mired in internal conflict as he attempts to pass a slate of conservative legislation

Remnants of a bygone era fade with the passing of luminary George Ostrom, who died on Jan. 1 at age 96, but the memory of his compelling life remains ever vivid

Federal regulators on Friday afternoon published a record of decision approving a cleanup remedy for the contaminated aluminum plant property near the Flathead River. Federal and state regulators estimate that the actual cleanup activities, once initiated, will take two to four years to complete.

Amid unprecedented development pressure, conservation easements have kept vast tracts of northwest Montana’s timbered landscape open to the public. But after the largest sale of the region’s timberland to a private buyer in recent history, the owners of Flathead Ridge Ranch have emerged as the unlikely gatekeepers to 126,000 forested acres of prime hunting habitat.

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