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Watch and Listen to the News Now Podcast by the Daily Inter Lake. We cover Headlines weekly and keep you up to date on the best happenings in Northwest Montana with our Local Events episodes. Find all our podcasts and videos on the Daily Inter Lake You Tube channel. | August 2, 2025 10:00 AM

Join Daily Inter Lake reporter Taylor Inman as she goes over some of the week’s biggest headlines for northwest Montana. 

This week, we’ll learn about open dispatcher and custodial positions that Flathead County officials are struggling to fill, hear about some alternative funding options to continue the hotspot program at Flathead County Library and why Northwest Montana History Museum leaders want to take over ownership of the historic school building they lease from the city.  


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Flathead County struggles to fill dispatcher, custodial positions

Flathead County Library to look at alternative funding options for hotspots

Kalispell City Council considers transferring Central School building to museum



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ARTICLES BY NEWS NOW PODCAST

Headlines: Truck theft arrest, council resignation, and rising park fees
July 15, 2026 9:15 a.m.

Headlines: Truck theft arrest, council resignation, and rising park fees

State pitches price hikes for parks and campsites, 89 nonprofits selected for Great Fish Challenge, opening on Columbia Falls City Council after resignation, man allegedly steals and crashes a pickup in Coram.

Headlines: Cat crisis, Glacier Park flooding and airport runway shutdown
July 6, 2026 10:40 a.m.

Headlines: Cat crisis, Glacier Park flooding and airport runway shutdown

Glacier slowly reopens after week of flooding, runway work at Glacier Park International Airport begins next week, efforts being made to reopen shuttered crisis stabilization facility and local shelters see increase in pet surrenders.

Headlines: Montana teacher investigation, Glacier Wrestling verdict and the future of Bigfork Dam
June 30, 2026 2:25 p.m.

Headlines: Montana teacher investigation, Glacier Wrestling verdict and the future of Bigfork Dam

PacifiCorp announces intentions to dispose of Bigfork dam, jury rules in favor of father and son in Title IX lawsuit, judge pauses contested water permit hearing after critics sue, Glacier Institute going gangbusters as summer arrives, nonprofit opens RV park in Kalispell, authorities investigating allegations against a Hot Springs teacher.