Thompson Falls News

Sanders County voters headed to the polls on Tuesday to have their say in several races.

A new parking area is available to hunters and other people accessing the Lolo and Kootenai national forests near Thompson Falls, which is a popular access point for big game hunters.

If you're brushing your teeth with Colgate toothpaste, there's a chance you're supporting local farmers, in a roundabout kind of way.

After 5 years of research and planning a $6.5 million project is underway at the Thompson Falls dam.

Flathead County attorneys say a Lake County man charged with killing his father over Labor Day weekend last year is competent to stand trial.

Nancy Dykstraof Thompson Falls stepped up to the pile of zucchini that gardeners are grappling with this time of year.

Congressman Denny Rehberg will be back on the road next week ready to hear more ideas from Montanans on the contentious health care issue.

Recently I was subjected to a telephone poll on eminent domain. It was painful because the person giving the poll couldn't read very well, but it did give me plenty of time to think between questions.

Previous job: Principal at Thompson Falls Elementary in Thompson Falls, Mont. Years working in education field: 10 Goal for new school: Work with the community of Fall River to continue what is great at our school and look for new ways to be even better.

Power was restored early Wednesday after a thunderstorm that tore through the Priest Lake area in Idaho and extended to Thompson Falls, Mont., on Tuesday afternoon disrupted service.

Aircraft were also used to suppress the fire late yesterday afternoon. Firefighters will now concentrate on building and improving fireline and mopping up some areas of the fire.

A Thompson Falls woman is dead after being shot in the head Wednesday. The woman's common-law husband told detectives they were both shot by a hitchhiker they had picked up on Interstate 82 near Yakima, WA -- he was shot in the hand.

A Montana woman has died from injuries suffered when she was shot by a hitchhiker in central Washington's Yakima County.

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Western Montana is experiencing its highest unemployment rates in years and the worst numbers come from Sanders County.

MISSOULA a ' Authorities say a 22-year-old North Idaho man committed suicide in the Sanders County Detention Center shortly after he was captured by residents for allegedly robbing a convenience store in Trout Creek.

A 51-year-old Thompson Falls man has died in a one-car rollover near Noxon. The Montana Highway Patrol says the crash happened on Montana Highway 200 at about 7 p.m. Wednesday.

Authorities say a 22-year-old Idaho man committed suicide in the Sanders County Detention Center shortly after he was captured by residents for allegedly robbing a convenience store in Trout Creek.