Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
DIXON — A half-dozen professionally trained search and rescue teams were searching near North Valley Creek Road on Wednesday morning for a man who went missing over the weekend. Troy Akers, 20, was traveling from Missoula with three others on Sunday night when the vehicle became stranded near D...
ST. IGNATIUS — Governor Steve Bullock signed a bill March 24 that gives final state approval for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact, but the battle over the document continued as a handful of Flathead Joint Board of Control Irrigation Commissioners filed a lawsuit saying the meth...
RONAN – Approximately 25 percent of adult Americans saved nothing during 2014, but local bankers and child care providers are trying to make sure the upcoming generation does a little bit better financially. First Interstate Bank last week conducted the first of what is expected to become regu...
ST. IGNATIUS — Irrigators experiencing problems with their ballots in the ongoing elections for Mission, Flathead or Jocko Irrigation District will need to contact different governmental offices to remedy the concerns, depending on the nature of the issue, though authorities can’t agree on who so...
PABLO – Many furred and scaled beasts roam the Flathead Reservation, but the valley floor is well-known to outsiders for hosting an abundance of feathered flyers that typically places the destination among the top bird watching habitat in Montana. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes ha...
CHARLO – At least 20 Charlo High School students will receive financial help as they pursue higher education over the next two decades, after a donor committed $100,000 to a scholarship program for the students in April. Deborah Thrailkill presented the six-figure check to the Charlo School Bo...
HELENA – Governor Steve Bullock promised to sign the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact last week after a days-long intense back and forth between Democrats and Republican leadership in bringing the legislation to the floor of the Montana House of Representatives, where it prevailed with by...
RONAN – The Ronan School Board tabled the rehiring of head girls’ basketball coach Shelly Buhr on April 13 after parents requested a meeting to discuss the future of the sports program. The board said it would reconsider hiring Buhr at an upcoming meeting. “I would encoura...
PABLO – It is not uncommon for poetry assignments to bring out extreme like or dislike on behalf of school-age youngsters, but teacher Carolyn Pardini said nearly all of her students are hooked on a poetry-intensive, 12-week writing project sponsored by the Missoula Writing Collaborative. Sali...
Physics formulas can look like daunting lines of gobbledygook for the mathematically and scientifically disinclined, but hopefully a few Ronan students will grow up to tackle the task after seeing Mr. G’s Science Show, which gave mesmerizing fun-infused explanations of why light and sound behave the wa...
