Denali Sagner

Trustees on Tuesday night voted unanimously to return Superintendent Andy Maheras to the school district following a decision earlier this year that he would work remotely. Maheras in July pleaded no contest to one count of corporal punishment after a physical altercation with a student.

A Glacier High School student remains in intensive care following a lightning incident that struck three individuals at a soccer tryout on Monday evening. In an interview with the Beacon on Thursday morning, Kalispell Public Schools Superintendent Matt Jensen dispelled circulating concerns that the soccer team did not follow required safety protocols ahead of the […]

Editor’s Note: This story is part of an ongoing series about efforts to expand higher education access for rural and Indigenous students in Montana. This series was produced with support from the Education Writers Association Reporting Fellowship program. On the last day of the school year at Lincoln County High School in Eureka, Renee Melton’s […]

Montana students apply for federal financial aid at strikingly low rates, foregoing millions in monetary support for post-secondary education. According to education experts, a lack of incentives to apply, knowledge barriers and government distrust may explain the phenomenon.

Across the 145,509 square miles of rolling grassland and impassable mountains that make up Montana, a constellation of universities, community colleges and tribal colleges dot the landscape. For young Montanans, the state’s rural nature long created a thorny paradigm: travel far away from home to seek out higher education, or forgo the post-secondary experience entirely. […]

Dispatches from the first day of school at the West Valley School District

With the school year in full swing, homeless service providers are anticipating an increase in need as the Flathead Valley’s unhoused student population continues to grow. Mandy Gerth, director of the HEART Program and homeless education liaison for the Kalispell and Evergreen school districts, said that a persistent lack of affordable housing in the valley […]

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy made disparaging comments about the Crow Tribe during two campaign events last year, the Pablo-based Char-Koosta News reported last week. According to two audio clips, Sheehy at a Shelby fundraiser on Nov. 6 said he ropes and brands with members of the Crow Tribe every year, which he describes […]

Under the shadow of the shuttered mills and mines, Lincoln County, Montana, is breaking free of dependence on extractive industries.

Voters will decide on two separate bonds set to expand Whitefish High School and its athletic complex, which the district says are necessary to keep up with unprecedented growth.