The governor on Thursday endorsed 58 candidates for state Legislature, including Flathead Valley Reps. Braxton Mitchell, Courtenay Sprunger and Tony Brockman and omitting Speaker of the House Matt Regier

School districts across northwest Montana will hold elections on May 7, in which voters will elect school board trustees and decide whether to approve levies and bonds. Find out what’s on the ballot in your local school district and how to cast your vote.

The new fishing access site would be located on the west bank of Flathead River just south of the existing bridge, which in 2009 was deemed unsuitable to accommodate increases in traffic and vehicle size

The feedback from visioning sessions is meant to assist city officials as they update the growth policy, a master planning document that is supposed to guide the city through growth and development over a 20-year period

Public lands poll shows high support for conservation issues even as residents aired grievances over the state's changing character

A pending land sale and development plan on 2,400 acres hinges on the EPA selecting a cleanup plan favored by Glencore, renewing community concerns about the future of the contaminated Superfund site near the Flathead River

As one of Montana’s oldest breweries passes the two-decade mark, its owners rewind through the years that forged them into a lakefront staple

A conservation group is embroiled in litigation to defend the state’s selenium standard at the U.S.-Canada border against attempts by the Justice Department to rescind it; AG Knudsen accuses conservation group of “weaponization” of open records act

Federal attorneys allege the baseball team’s arrowhead logo closely resembles that of the National Park Service

Plans for the development include 12 studio-style units, three one-bedroom units and six two-bedroom units on a .54-acre parcel of land

Despite garnering wide support during the 2023 legislative session, a bill to redistribute marijuana tax dollars to county roads died after a large bloc of lawmakers abstained from a vote to override the governor’s veto

Recent water source sampling revealed one of the city’s 11 drinking water wells in the municipality surpasses the Environmental Protection Agency’s new rule that set limits on PFAS contaminants

Mark O'Connor loves to think of fiddling as playing the American Violin, and Maggie O'Connor finds inspiration in tracing the influences that contribute to the particular strain of violin music that has taken root here.

Voters on May 7 will elect three trustees to serve on the Kalispell school board and will decide whether or not to renew a sunsetting elementary technology levy and approve a $1 per-month high school levy. Read the Beacon's interviews with each candidate.