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FLATHEAD RESERVATION — Members of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation will go to the polls Saturday, Dec. 13, to elect councilmembers to represent four districts and one at-large councilmember. People can vote now in the main tribal headquarters, or they can vote ...
News from Friends of Children - Western Montana Partners POLSON — Friends of the Children – Western Montana is partnering with Valley Bank in Polson and the Lake County Courthouse to help bring joy and warmth to the 32 children enrolled in the organization’s Flathead Nation program thi...
News from Flathead Valley Community College KALISPELL — Flathead Valley Community College’s Art Department is offering two ways for the community to support art students as they finish up the fall semester. First up is the FVCC Art Department’s annual Student Art Club Sale on ...
POLSON — On Wednesday Dec. 3, at approximately 3:30 p.m. the City of Polson Fire Department was dispatched to a report of a vehicle submerged in the river, off the corner of 7th Ave. W and Kerr Dam Road. Arriving units found no occupants around the vehicle, and a search with underwater drone found no o...
BOZEMAN – In new research published this week, work by a Montana State University scientist aims to explore the gradations in elevation-dependent changes in climate, including in mountainous ecosystems like those in Montana and the Rockies. John Knowles, an assistant professor in MSU’s Departm...
News from the Lake County Planning Board LAKE COUNTY — The Lake County Planning Board is currently seeking volunteers to serve on the following boards: Lake County Planning Board, Board of Adjustment, Planning & Zoning Commission, and City County Planning Board. Appointments begin on Jan...
By MHP Colonel Kurt Sager MONTANA — This holiday season, we want every Montanan and visitor to get to and from their destination safely. December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month because during the holidays we tend to see an increase in DUI crashes and fatalities as there ar...
Did you get your elk yet? This rifle season has been mild, and elk and deer have been widely dispersed and hard to find. Is changing climate influencing wildlife and hunting? While our weather is variable from year to year, Montana has been warming and drying with increasing greenhouse g...
POLSON — It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Paul Koehler Newgard who left us far too soon on Nov. 29, 2025. Paul was born to Gerald and Karol Newgard and raised in Polson. Surrounded by the beauty of Flathead Lake and the Mission Valley, he developed a strong love fo...
BOZEMAN — Montana State University will select educators and organizations in five rural Montana communities to host a fully sponsored Geospatial Skills Camp for high school students in June 2026. The camp is being made possible thanks to a $430,000, three-year grant awarded to MSU’s Science M...
