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A new chapter: Byrds sell liquor license to local investors, planning future restaurant
Melanie and O’Brien Byrd have sold the liquor and wine business they’ve owned for 21 years to a Flathead Valley gr…
Opinion: Bookstore needs help
Maybe you first visited Bad Rock Books on Nucleus Avenue in Columbia Falls when you were a kid.
Opinion: Choo-choo
I got a letter the other day from Donald J. Trump asking me to vote for him for president. I found this to be a bit ironic, considering that this is the same guy who claims that the U.S. Postal Service is fraught w…
Opinion: Remembering Duke
Just as the sun was about to peak over the mountains on Friday morning the North Fork lost an icon. Duke Hoiland, 87, passed over the Great Divide. Duke and Naomi Hoiland became year-round North Forkers in 1993 but…
Yesterdays: Griz drinks motor oil, eats a box of sugar cubes
Media mogul Ted Turner was the top buyer at the annual bison sale and roundup at the National Bison Range. Turner paid $1,150 for 21 yearling cows.
Griz hit by car, some claws removed
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking information on the illegal removal of claws from a grizzly bear struck and killed by a vehicle on U.S. Highway 2 …
USFWS seeks info on grizzly bear poached near Babb
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking information on the illegal killing of a sow grizzly bear in northern Montana. The bear, collared by Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, was last known to be alive on May…
Election 2020: Braxton Mitchell House District 3
Braxton Mitchell, Republican candidate for House District 3
Election 2020: Carl Glimm, Senate District 2
Carl Glimm, Republican, Senate District 2
The Blotter: A woman locked herself in her bedroom after her roommate came home and started breaking things.
Someone’s cash, ID, gas card, wallet and gun were found strewn across a parking lot.
Hummingbird program on tap
Flathead Audubon will present an online program at 7 p.m. Oct. 12 Bret Tobalske, professor of organismal biology, ecology and evolution in the Division of Biol…
Yesterdays: Dynamite shoot sets Teakettle Mountain on fire
A dynamite shoot, which was a fundraiser for the Blankenship Volunteer Fire Department, went sideways after one of the sticks of dynamite blew up and caught Te…
Marsh receives technology award
Since changing her career from marketing to education, Columbia Falls High School business and technology teacher Diane Marsh has used previous real-world mark…
Columbia Falls man found dead in Whitefish Lake, had prior record
Timothy Allen Braaten, 51, was found in the Mackinaw Point area by a boater at about 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23.
Hungry Horse woman dies after running in front of tow truck
A pedestrian died after being hit by a tow truck at 8:30 p.m. Saturday in Hungry Horse.
Toys for Tots program needs storage space
The Flathead Valley Toys for Tots program is looking for someone to donate some warehouse or other storage space for its program this Christmas.