Tristan Scott

Tourists spent more money in Flathead County than anywhere else in Montana, according to a two-year estimate by University of Montana economists, who reported more than $1 billion in annual nonresident spending between 2022 and 2023 in the Flathead Valley and nearly $2 billion across the Glacier Country travel region. Spending in Glacier Country accounted […]

Located just on the edge of campus, the Hedreen Gallery and the Lee Center for the Arts is currently hosting Roots/Uproot, a gallery dedicated to the art of hair. Through a variety of materials and forms, the exhibit showcases the diversity and cultural importance of hair.

For the past 20 years, the road to recovery for Montana’s apex native fish species has included a rare recreational opportunity for anglers to target bull trout on two local waterbodies in the Flathead Valley, the Hungry Horse Reservoir and the pristine South Fork Flathead River. Listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in […]

Poll workers volunteering at the Whitefish Armory on Tuesday morning reported a busy but efficient start to Election Day as they fielded questions and helped voters look up their precincts from a kiosk stand of iPads, with each tablet programmed with electronic pollbooks containing a list of eligible voters in Flathead County and their voting […]

A mural inside The Chieftain Irish Pub, showcasing Seattle University athletes in action—a tribute to the spirited representation of students as the Chieftains.

Longtime Whitefish representative Dave Fern, the de facto elder statesman of the Flathead County Democrats, didn’t waste any time mooning over his election win on Wednesday morning. Instead, the four-term representative, who picked up a commanding 52% share of the vote to defeat Republican challenger Doug Adams in Senate District 2, woke up before the […]

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission on Nov. 12 is set to consider a crowded agenda of proposed fishing and hunting regulations for the upcoming year, including approving a shortened wolf-trapping season and enacting rules surrounding the trapping of predators like coyotes, which are designed to avoid incidental captures of grizzly bears. Montana has allowed […]

Awarded to Flathead Electric Cooperative, Montana West Economic Development and the Flathead National Forest, the money will fund fuel-reduction projects in the wildland urban interface and help landowners build fuel breaks to protect their property

In recent months, Seattle University students and staff have noticed a sudden increase in phishing emails sent to their university email addresses. According to the FBI, phishing scams are aimed at capturing personal information like passwords, bank information and social security numbers. This information falling into the wrong hands can have disastrous consequences for students, including financial loss and identity theft.

As fisheries managers attempt to rescue the region’s native trout populations from an existential crash, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission on Tuesday further restricted opportunities for recreational anglers targeting bull trout in the Bob Marshall Wilderness and Hungry Horse Reservoir while extending a ban on “terminal tackle” to include the entire Flathead River system. […]