All three election officials in the northwest Montana county have resigned in frustration, joining the national ranks of beleaguered officials quitting their jobs amid baseless claims of voter fraud from county leaders and their constituents flatheadbeacon.com/2023/05/17/how… #mtnews

Whitefish Planning Board just voted by a 4-0 margin to recommend approval of this development. Pushback was pretty limited during public comment, and there were numerous supportive comments. Whitefish City Council will take this up June 19.

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON mvp Lily Gladstone is getting her major moment during its Cannes standing ovation

Scoop: Neither Chief Justice Mike McGrath nor Justice Dirk Sandefur will seek re-election to Montana Supreme Court in 2024 montanafreepress.org/2023/06/07/nei… via @MTFreePress #mtnews #mtpol

Flathead Forest Supervisor Kurt Steele has accepted a new position at the USFS Northern Region headquarters in Missoula, capping a 3.5-year stint overseeing 2.4 million acres in NW Mont., which in the past year had become beset in controversy. #mtnews flatheadbeacon.com/2023/06/09/fla…

NEW: Ted Kaczynski known as the Unabomber died in his prison cell this morning, according to a BOP spokesperson.

BREAKING: Theodore “Ted" Kaczynski, known as the “Unabomber,” has died in federal prison, a spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons told the AP on Saturday. apnews.com/article/ted-ka…

A bridge over Yellowstone River collapses, sending a freight train into the waters below dlvr.it/Sr9m1R

Blackfeet Bring Bison Home to Chief Mountain. Tribal members hailed the return of wild free-roaming buffalo to Indigenous land as an expression of sovereignty and the beginning of a cultural and ecological renaissance #mtnews flatheadbeacon.com/2023/06/28/bla…

Flathead Lake continues to drop — level's aren't expected to stabilize until July 12th. Today the lake level slipped under 2,891.5 feet — a historic low by 6 inches and a full 18 inches below full pool. #mtnews

Flathead Lake has started to stabilize at 2,891.13 feet; that's 22.44 inches below full pool — a historic low. #mtnews

Also in this story is the news that Izaak Opatz is hoping to record a new album this winter.

Officially: No action will be taken to release water from Hungry Horse Reservoir to augment low levels of Flathead Lake. #mtnews #mtpol

Northwest Montana Raises Fire Danger to 'Extreme' as Flathead County Declares State of Emergency. Wildfires have burned more than 20,000 acres in the region. #mtfire flatheadbeacon.com/2023/08/01/lak…

I interviewed Chico's new owner about future plans for the hot springs resort: ypradio.org/community/2023…

"The current situation has grown so difficult that the IRC in Missoula has requested a pause on new refugee arrivals, the first time the agency has had to do so since reopening its doors in 2016," the statement read. missoulian.com/news/local/hou… via Missoulian and David Erickson

#breaking The ImagineIf Libraries director, Ashley Cummins, has resigned her post after ~18 months leading the Flathead County library system. Cummins cited unforseen family circumstances that are taking her back to Alabama. #mtnews

Voters in Whitefish rejected a $33.7 million bond that would have expanded its high school campus and athletic complex ahead of substantial projected growth. The bond failed by 152 votes and is the third high school bond to fail in WF in 20 yrs #mtnews flatheadbeacon.com/2023/10/03/whi…

Preliminary results are in! Incumbents in Flathead Co. city council elex are coasting and Whitefish resort tax reallocation has overwhelming support #mtnews flathead.mt.gov/application/fi…

Unfortunately for Kalispell voters, an unprecedented clerical mishap has hampered some of the early-election results elation #mtnews flatheadbeacon.com/2023/11/07/fla…