Hungryhorse about

The Hungry Horse News is a weekly newspaper with a circulation of 4,200. Published every Wednesday, the Hungry Horse News covers the community of Columbia Falls, Glacier National Park and the Flathead Valley.

The name dates back to 1900 when two freight horses, Tex and Jerry, were lost in the undeveloped South Fork of the Flathead River drainage. When found a month later in belly-deep snow, they were skin and bones — and very, very hungry. Today, Hungry Horse is the name of a creek, lake, mountain, town and hydroelectric dam.

Mel Ruder founded the Hungry Horse News in Columbia Falls on Aug. 8, 1946. It remains one of the few newspapers in America published in a log building. Ruder won a Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for his coverage of the 500-year flood that devastated property all across the Flathead Valley.

Columbia Falls, population 4,688 in 2010 census, is located in the northeast corner of the Flathead Valley. It sits above the Flathead River, which flows into Flathead Lake, the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi. The county seat for Flathead County, population 90,928, is Kalispell.

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