Articles Written By: Megan Strickland
LAKE COUNTY — County commissioners declared a state of emergency last week that will allow them to tap into emergency funding resources to repair what officials estimate to be hundreds of thousands of dollars in infrastructure damage caused by recent floods. Jay Garrick, Lake County Road and Bridge ...
FLATHEAD LAKE – The annual Mack Days fishing derby kicked off last weekend, but not without opposition from anglers who say the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ decision to gillnet lake trout this spring could be disastrous for the trophy lake trout population. For more than a decade t...
POLSON — A Lake County Detention officer returned to work on Monday, after he was cleared of being involved with a party where underage drinking occurred. “I’m confident he was not involved,” Lake County Undersheriff Dan Yonkin said. Shortly after midnight on March 11, Polson...
LAKE COUNTY — Polson Police used spike strips to stop a thief that led mutliple law enforcement agencies on a chase Friday, March 14. A security officer spotted a man hooking up to a trailer full of tools at a storage yard near Pablo, Lake County Undersheriff Dan Yonkin said. ...
RONAN — A Polson woman and small infant survived a March 10 wreck when a vehicle southbound on Highway 93 ran off the roadway, over a guardrail, and flipped into the ravine of an animal walkway just north of Ronan. The driver Stacie Rongwycsik-Lester, 37, was ejected from her vehicle. ...
HELENA – In the past month the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes launched an aggressive initiative to curb drug abuse, but last week Tribal Director of Health and Human Services Kevin Howlett implored the state legislature to take additional steps that might help combat the problem of prescriptio...
FLATHEAD RESERVATION – Tribal, state, and federal game authorities are feeling the effects of a resurgence in methamphetamine usage in the Mission Valley. Tribal Game Warden Mike McElderry pointed to his bulletproof vest in a meeting with the Flathead Reservation Fish and Wildlife Board last w...
RONAN — Chase Bocksnick took a breath, looked skyward, closed his eyes firmly shut, and slowly and deliberately mouthed silent letters as glaring stage lights of the Ronan Performing Arts Center bore down upon him. A misplaced “i” in the eighth round of the Lake County Spelling Bee had k...
LAKE COUNTY – Voters in St. Ignatius and Ronan will decide whether or not they want to form a government oversight committee to evaluate their city councils in this year’s election. The opportunity to vote for a mil levy that funds a local government review committee comes once every ten years...
FLATHEAD LAKE — Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are in the process of rolling out new uniform guidelines about how many Flathead Lake trout meals people can safely consume per month. “We noticed our fish consumption advisories for Flathead ...
