Flathead County News

Montana's Labor Department says the state unemployment rate dropped to 6.4 percent in October, down from 6.7 percent a month earlier.

When the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law in February, national and state officials promised a life raft of job creation to help soften the blow of the economic recession.

A new study released confirms what many in Montana already knew. Fewer people here have cardiovascular disease, and fewer are obese.

The Flathead County commissioners say they expect the report from a third-party investigation into the County Planning and Zoning Office any day, causing concern for planning officials who say they weren't contacted at all during the inquiry into their department.

The Columbia Falls jail is closing but the police chief says they will continue to hold prisoners for their safety or if they are a threat to the public.

A few days after an Election Day that saw incumbent elected officials across the United States unseated, Tammi Fisher, the 33-year-old local attorney and next mayor of Kalispell, felt her new obligations and responsibilities setting in.

People flooded Flathead County law enforcement officers with calls after we ran a story about a new website tracking outstanding warrants.

Attorneys are set to meet at a pretrial hearing next month in the case against state Sen.

Like many investors in a shaky economy, Flathead County is always looking for the best deal for its money.

The Flathead City-County Health Department will have an H1N1 vaccination clinic at the Flathead County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, Nov.

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.

Some people in Whitefish want the branch library in their city taken out of the Flathead County Library System.

The Flathead City-County Health Department is allowing more people to get vaccinated for H1N1.

Flathead County officials say a 52-year-old man has died in a trailer house fire in Evergreen and the blaze is being investigated as a possible arson.

Close to 300 people packed the Flathead County Fairground clinic Wednesday afternoon, waiting for their chance to get an H1N1 vaccination.

Flathead County officials say faulty wiring was to blame in a trailer house fire that killed a 52-year-old Evergreen man.

An eastern Montana judge has been named to preside over the case of state Sen. Greg Barkus, who faces several charges stemming from a Flathead Lake boat crash that injured all five people aboard.

Law enforcement in Northwest Montana had a busy weekend arresting people for DUI.

Fire officials confirmed on Monday that faulty wiring caused a fatal Evergreen trailer house fire.

Flathead County officials say a man has died in a trailer house fire in Evergreen.