Whitefish News

Heidi Marcum, left, checks out clothing at Rocky Mountain Outfitter with help from employee Jandy Cox in Kalispell.

Whitefish City Attorney John Phelps has announced his retirement, to become effective in July of 2010.

Greg Kolodziejzyk wasna t able to achieve his goal of pedaling his special high-tech boat around Vancouver Island last month, but that doesna t mean he is giving up on his larger dream of taking it across the Pacific Ocean.

A proposed logging project in a heavily-used network of trails near Whitefish has residents there mobilizing to make sure that recreation is considered as part of the plan.

Athletes from Carroll College, Eastern Oregon and Montana Tech are the Frontier Conference Football players of the week.

The race is over. Let the healing begin. That is the sentiment expressed by newly elected Whitefish City Councilor Bill Kahle.

Monday 11/9 3:09 a.m. Someone in Columbia Falls could hear voices outside but couldn't see anyone in the area.

The British journalist George Holbrook Jackson once said, "Your library is your portrait." If this is true, then the Flathead County Library System is currently the picture of unrest.

It happens every few years - whenever reappraisals of property take effect. Folks in areas where land, home and business values rose faster than the statewide average send up a cry that they are being discriminated against because their property is worth more.

Mark McManus' grandfather "hired out" to the railroad in 1922. His father followed suit in 1936.

The state Supreme Court unanimously upheld the Flathead District Court's ruling that Whitefish violated a couple's right to equal protection under the law after the city denied the couple's building exemption permit.

Hunters have killed 36 out of the quota of 75 wolves in Montana so far this season.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development named a Montana woman as its HUD Manager of the Year for her outstanding efforts in providing housing for low income seniors.

Good morning; on the Beacon today, nearly everybody in Whitefish considers Halloween one of the biggest days of the year for the town, and some stake claim to the holiday as the biggest of all celebrations.

According to local legend, the late Paul Harvey once called Whitefish one of the best places in the nation to be for Halloween.

When Lizzy English couldn't pursue her first passion -- kayaking -- she simply substituted another.

Oct. 21 meeting draws more than 40 Kalispell residents: With Formation of Quiet Skies Committee, Opposition to City Airport Expansion Grows Oct.

Thursday 10/22 10:27 a.m. A man was arrested after repeatedly trespassing on a Somers property and assaulting another individual.

Northwest Montana's cross country tradition is alive and well. From Bigfork to Whitefish, from Class B to AA, the Flathead Valley has no shortage of championship contenders heading into this weekend's state cross country meet.

The U.S. dollar is weakening, but Whitefish Mountain Resort are smiling about the development.