Flathead Beacon

As a fisheries biologist with the Flathead National Forest, Pat Van Eimeren spent much of his 30-year career evaluating logging projects to ensure they didn’t jeopardize native fish habitat. Today, Van Eimeren is retired, which means he spends more time in his own natural habitat, hunting and fishing in remote corners of northwest Montana while […]

The teenager who was found unresponsive at a party on Jewel Basin Road near Bigfork earlier this month and died during transport to the hospital has been identified as 18-year-old Xander Snake, according to Flathead County Sheriff Brian Heino. Snake was reportedly at a party where numerous juveniles and young adults were gathering in the […]

Jim Peterson’s column (The Road to One Man’s Kingdom) asks readers to believe that Art Wittich somehow seized control of the Montana Republican Party through the backing of a small faction. That claim ignores the most important fact in the entire debate: Art Wittich was elected chairman by more than 200 members of the Montana […]

New membership bylaws adopted by the Montana Republican Party have raised alarm bells for some legislators already at loggerheads with the state GOP, inciting new fears that their futures in the party could be at stake. Among other changes, the new rules allow a pathway for party members to be suspended or terminated, without explicitly spelling out reasons that could cause one’s party membership to be terminated.

Construction crews have broken ground on a 353-lot, single-family residential development located on 110 acres on Tronstad Road east of U.S. Highway 93 in north Kalispell, a project that city councilors approved in 2024. Homebuilders Terry Homes and Iron Star Construction have secured 70% of phase one lots, which includes 101 lots. There will be […]

Credit: Montana Legislative Fiscal Division

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People gather at the Flathead County South Campus building, which includes the Senior Center and Agency on Aging. Beacon file photo

Glacier National Park employees joined a National Park Service employee union pending the certification of election results, which was slated for late Thursday afternoon. Employees from 12 parks across the intermountain west voted for the National Treasury Employees Union to represent them. According to election results collected by the Federal Labor Relations Authority, park service […]

Visitors to the Hungry Horse Dam will have to skip the visitor center this summer, which is closed for the season. The top of the dam is still open to pedestrian and vehicle traffic, and new interpretive panels have been added around the dam to ensure the public still has access to information about the […]