New year-to-date data shows 3,115,195 people visited the park during the first 11 months of 2025, which signals a 2.4% drop in visitation compared to the same period last year

Glacier head coach Grady Bennett will be aiming to lead the West to its sixth straight Montana East-West Shrine Game victory

For more than 50 years, the Flathead Snowmobile Association has been maintaining designated snowmobile routes across northwest Montana, providing grooming for multiuse trails and bolstering partnerships to ensure motorized access

Mitchell Alexander Kleinman is charged with a felony count of attempted deliberate homicide and a second count of criminal endangerment after allegedly shooting another driver in the head and firing multiple rounds at his vehicle with an 8-year-old child in the backseat

Located on the corner of Railroad Street and Fourth Avenue East North, the six homes are slated to break ground this spring as the nonprofit organization works to acquire more land and expand its inventory

Conflicting estimates of the plant’s maximum capacity show two different paths forward as the city develops in the coming years

A relocated and updated residence in Kalispell; a Lakeside property with Flathead Lake views; and a home on Eagle Bend Golf Course in Bigfork

For generations of local skiers, these little mountains were critical stepping stones to the Big Mountain

Kelli Higgins, an English teacher and the International Baccalaureate coordinator at Flathead High School, was honored at a school-wide assembly.

Essentially a warm variation on eggnog, this cocktail becomes irresistible on chilly holiday nights

A selection of the Beacon's best imagery from the past year

From the consequences of mass firings of public land managers to trade war tensions with Canada and the Flathead’s hidden immigrant communities, here are a few of our best stories from the last year

United Airlines added several seasonal direct flights to Kalispell to accommodate winter tourism as Whitefish Mountain Resort staff prepares for big crowds through the New Year

Environmental groups had argued in their unsuccessful motion for a preliminary injunction that letting hunters, trappers and wildlife managers kill up to 558 wolves would do long-term harm to their viability in Montana

When a rock-blasting operation on a luxury lakeshore home triggered a landslide last year, it became the poster child for regulatory dysfunction on Whitefish Lake. But even as the custom builders responsible for the landslide say they have repaired the damage, which didn't warrant enforcement action, neighbors and citizens' groups argue the lack of local oversight begs the question: Who's in charge of Whitefish Lake?