1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (265+ words) As a fan of local history, I was fascinated to learn about Montana’s Corrupt Practices Act, which passed by ballot initiative in 1912 and completely banned corporate influence in our elections for 100 years. We needed this law because the Copper Kings…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (240+ words) A map shows a proposed roundabout at the intersection of Big Mountain Road and East Lakeshore Drive in Whitefish. A public-private effort to address a serious traffic and safety issue that has long plagued Whitefish received a positive reception from…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (776+ words) We rarely complain about having too many tax cuts to choose from. Given the opportunity, lawmakers can reduce property taxes, issue rebates, expand deductions, create credits, lower business taxes or simply send excess revenue back to taxpayers. Most of those…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (528+ words) Had Donald Trump been president in 1973, when Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into federal law, the Gunnison sage-grouse would be extinct. Close to 90 percent of all Gunnison sage-grouse remaining on the planet are in the Gunnison River Basin…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (485+ words) U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Montana, speaks during an event at the Noxon Bridge in Sanders County on Monday, March 9, 2026. (Tracy Scott/Valley Press) In the waning days of his Montana congressional career, Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke has picked up a wilderness…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (374+ words) “Have you forgotten how it felt that day?” Those poignant lyrics in country music singer Darryl Worley’s 2003 chart-topping song “Have You Forgotten” still resonate over two decades later. On the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, that took the lives…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (906+ words) Although Kalispell City Council left funding for a Safe Haven Baby Box out of this fiscal year’s budget, several councilors remain committed to bringing the boxes to the community. Residents and anti-abortion advocates in the spring urged Council to install…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (704+ words) Passions continue to run high in Yellowstone County over a massive data center planned outside the town of Broadview, with opponents vowing to maintain pressure on local officials. In hopes of securing some control over the nearly 8-square-mile development, those…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (396+ words) I see three things going on. 1. Merchants are concerned over parking being utilized by downtown employees leading to customers not being able to find a parking space. 2. The public is concerned about not being able to find a parking place…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (445+ words) The Flathead County Courthouse in Kalispell on Thursday, June 22. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Every budget season the Flathead County commissioners praise their own “habit of fiscal discipline,” and for six years they’ve told us they lowered our county property…...