ALERT was dispatched to the North Fork area after an approximately 25-year-old woman on a snowmobile struck a tree about three miles up the trail from Canyon Creek. Luckily for the woman, also at the scene of the accident were an area fire chief and a paramedic. The woman was transported by snowmobile to a spot where the helicopter could land, and she was taken to a hospital for treatment of a facial abrasion, lower abdominal pain and right upper femur pain.

Bigfork Fire Department and Ferndale Fire Department personnel as well as other emergency responders were dispatched to Mont. 209 and Swan River Road after a motorist rolled a vehicle into the Swan River. The driver and passenger were able to exit the vehicle but one of the occupants was having trouble breathing before losing consciousness and undergoing CPR.

Kalispell Police Department officers arrested two men after a fight during which one suffered a stab wound and a woman was left bleeding from her face. A knife was found at the scene.

A shocked shopper reported he accidentally cut off a man when he turned into a Hutton Ranch Road parking lot, that the man followed him inside and that when he asked if the man really wanted to fight him the man pulled back his jacket, revealing a gun. A responding officer counseled both men on their behavior and reported it was a mutual argument.

A woman reported she sold her vehicle to a man a year ago and had recently received a parking ticket connected to the vehicle. The letter said her driver’s license would be suspended, so she paid the ticket and called the man and told him to get the vehicle registered in his own name, but he told her he didn’t have any money.

A woman used a cellphone from the bartender at a U.S. 93 bar to call police after another woman kicked her and her friend at the bar, also throwing and breaking her phone.

A motorist talking on a cellphone swerved all over Idaho Street before eventually jumping the curb while pulling into the parking lot of an ice cream shop.

A pair of women were reported to police after trying to flee a Hutton Ranch Road business with two shopping carts full of items they hadn’t paid for.

Someone tried to break into a room at a U.S. 93 South property, damaging the lock on the door.

A worried woman reported a group of people followed her from a gas station to her home.

A man escaped from a West Idaho Street business with a stolen case of beer.

Someone egged a vehicle on Seventh Avenue East, and it wasn’t the first time.

A man stole $1,600 from a Third Avenue West property.

An irate Iowa Avenue resident contacted the Whitefish Police Department to report their drunken father slashed the tires on their vehicle.

An officer arrested a man on Central Avenue for disorderly conduct after being flagged down due the man’s behavior.

An upset Sixth Avenue East North woman called the Columbia Falls Police Department to complain about a probation officer who she said stopped by her house and knocked over her mailbox. She wanted charges pressed against the probation officer and to have him forced to come fix the mailbox. The mailbox in question was attached to an old wheel, and an officer reported they were “picking it up and will be done with the complaint!”

Someone tried to break into an Evening Star Lane home, ripping off a lock box and screens and trying to kick the door in.

The girlfriend of a Martha Road man reported he was abusing cats by not providing a litter box and locking them outside all day.