Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
HELENA – A real estate tycoon will have to pay taxes on more than $41.8 million in property after the Montana Tax Appeal Board on March 18 failed to grant an appeal to assess improvements to a Flathead Lake island property at a much lower $9.8 million rate. Abbey Land, owned by Donald Abbey, a...
HELENA – A man serving a 50-year sentence for the May 27, 2006 kidnapping of an 18-year old Whitefish woman at a Bigfork festival has again asked the Montana Supreme court to reconsider his case, this time saying that a 2013 ruling by the high court in another matter opens up a way to overturn his conv...
POLSON – A Ronan man accused of killing his brother in June 2014 spent last week mulling a 40-year sentence proposed by Lake County District Judge James Manley on March 18. Manley said Harry Lozeau, 54, has a chance to reject the sentence and go to trial after he agreed to a plea bargain...
The Ronan School Board went against the recommendations of administrators March 9 and voted to allow five students involved with drug-related activities back into school. Three of the students were allowed to return to class on March 10, while another will return March 17, and the last will return March 30.&...
RONAN – Less than a week after a handful of Ronan High School students avoided expulsion for drug-related activity, administration at the Ronan Boys and Girls Club was hard at work educating students on the dangers of abusing prescription drugs. The presentation by School Resource Officer Levi...
ST. IGNATIUS – A lobbyist for the Flathead Joint Board of Control told irrigation commissioners last week that she expects the ongoing battle over state approval of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact to last into April. “It is likely the hearing will be sometime aft...
ST. IGNATIUS – The Flathead Joint Board of Control has released a privately-commissioned study that predicts irrigators will receive substantially less water under the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact than is necessary to sustain agriculture for farms on the project, but g...
$12 million judgment overturned RONAN – The Montana Supreme Court will allow an insurance company to make its case in Flathead County District Court that it should not have to pay the $12 million settlement resulting from construction disputes for Shelter Island, which lies in the mid...
RONAN – School Resource Officer Levi Read was a bit less enthusiastic than Alex Trebek or Pat Sajak when he took to the stage to pepper students with questions for the Lake County Middle School Academic Bowl in mid-February, but the competitors likely could give any of the contestants on America’...
