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Updated 6 days, 18 hours ago

Donations for new baseball field matched through May 1

It is anticipated that both baseball teams will be practicing and playing games on the new field sometime in April…

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
Construction key to solving housing crunch, report says

More housing — not just affordable housing — is needed to control rising unaffordability, according to a report issued by the Urban Land Institute.

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
Three Bigfork athletes sign to play in college

Bigfork High School saw three seniors sign their National Letters of Intent last week.

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
Speech and debate bound for State

Bigfork High School speech and debate is sending eight team members to State after a hard-fought weekend at Divisionals in Polson. All members who attended the…

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
BLOTTER: Locked out by husband

In Bigfork, a caller reported her husband locked her out of the house when she returned to “talk things out” and get her car, which was stuck in the driveway.

Updated 1 week, 6 days ago
Easement protects key link to Mission Valley wildlife corridor

Located near the Kicking Horse Waterfowl Production Area and Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge, designated as an Important Bird Area by Montana Audubon, the pr…

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Bigfork crew aids in Palisades Fire

Two four-person crews from the Bigfork and Whitefish fire departments are part of a named Montana Strike Force stationed at Will Rogers State Beach, which sits…

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Woods Bay’s Joe Martinez blazes his trail in blues and country

Doors are opening for 20-year-old Joe Martinez’ burgeoning singing career. The blues and country singer and songwriter from Woods Bay is the first winner of th…

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
School board puts stop to four-day week plans

“I think that until empirical data shows that kids are more proficient with a four-day school week, I could never be for it... If we’re trying to benefit the k…

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Missing Middle: Lake County looks for solutions to housing shortage

The “missing middle” is how housing advocates sometimes describe the lack of affordable housing for middle income residents of Lake County, or almost anywhere in Montana.

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Teen charged with homicide in Christmas murder

A 17-year-old teen is charged with murder in the Christmas morning shooting death of Sheldon Fisher.

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
HAPPENINGS: Undecorate Day, CPR classes, BLUAC

Bigfork Land Use Advisory Committee will meet downstairs at Bethany Lutheran Church at 4 p.m. to consider an application for a zone change on a residential property.

Updated 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Flathead Rivers plan calls for free, unlimited, mandatory use permits

User permits could be coming to the Wild and Scenic portions of the Flathead River system.

Updated 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Community pushes for tougher DUI laws and sentencing following fatal wrecks

The peaceful advocates for tighter DUI laws and harsher sentencing appeared proceeding the arraignment of Dal Segall, 41, of Corvallis on Thursday, Jan. 9.

Updated 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Polson biochemist earns Green Chemistry Award

PhoSul was recognized for offsetting climate change by making phosphate fertilizer “that avoids hazardous chemicals and waste emissions associated with traditi…

Updated 3 weeks, 6 days ago
U.S. will keep protecting more than 2,000 Rocky Mountain grizzly bears

The Biden administration will continue protecting about 2,000 grizzly bears in four Rocky Mountain states despite objections from Republican-led states, U.S. w…