Lake County News

The Lake County Community Development Corporation is picking up $500,000 from the federal government.

Health officials have confirmed the first case of H1N1 flu in Butte. A 34-year-old woman has been infected with the H1N1 virus according to Butte-Silver Bow Health Officer Terri Hocking.

Relay for Life started in three cities in Flathead County Friday night. The Relay for Life in Kalispell started at Legends Field.

The first case of H1N1 flu has shown up in Lake County. The Lake County Public Health Department and CSKT Tribal Health departments have bot received laboratory confirmation the case in which turned up in a 69-year old female.

Fire Board members, the Polson Fire Chief, the general contractor, the Polson Fairground President and the Lake County Commissioners were all in attendance at the ground breaking for the new Polson Fairground Fire Station.

Lake County officials have released the name of a 36-year-old Bigfork man who died in a one-vehicle crash in the Swan Valley over the weekend.

A 17-year-old Polson youth pleaded guilty to felony assault Monday, saying he threw a sharpened metal rod at his mother's head during an argument.

There has been some media coverage regarding the secession efforts of the Swan Valley Preservation Group, Inc., located in the Condon area, to change the boundary line between Missoula and Lake counties in the Swan Valley.

There's a health fair being offered in Lake County on Thursday. The "Women 4 Wellness" event is billed as a unique health fair that will provide a long list of free health tests, screenings and information for women, including mammograms, blood tests, bone health, HIV testing and more.

With unemployment in the double digits, a local economic development group, along with Flathead County officials, is working to entice new employers and additional jobs by competing for state grant monies.

Every day there are new events and activities filling the summer schedule at the Boys & Girls Club of the Flathead Reservation and Lake County.

KALISPELL - Forest thinning projects aimed at reducing wildfire risk are keeping loggers and log haulers at work during the housing slump.

Big Productions, a fundraising adventure of the Lake County Youth Home, will bring double Grammy award-winning family entertainer Bill Harley to the brand new Johnny Arlee/Victor Charlo Theatre on Monday, May 18, for an earlier than usual 7 PM family show.

We recently mentioned the loose lips of Texas' Gov. Rick Perry, who got so excited at the Texas 'tea party' on tax day that he raised the possibility of secession.

A 20-year-old Ronan area man pleaded not guilty Wednesday in four separate cases involving Lake County burglaries.

There are some Condon residents who are unhappy with some Missoula county bond issues and building regulations, and now they want to secede from Missoula County.

A semi truck carrying cement and towing a pup trailer has overturned on Highway 35 about a mile south of the Finley Point turnoff along Flathead Lake.

It is the nature of the Montana Legislature that issues which simmered throughout the session heat up to a boil in the final days.

Wednesday's chilly and windy weather didn't stop nearly 300 people from turning out in Polson to express their passionate distaste for over-taxation and excessive government spending.

POLSON - The Lake County sheriff says a 7-year-old girl was accidentally shot by her younger sister Friday and is in serious but stable condition at a Spokane, Wash., hospital.