'It's starting to happen' Bicycle touring an emerging tourism market

A new report verifies what local business owners have known for some time: The Flathead Valley is a superhighway for bicycle touring groups that bolster the local economy as they pass through.

Examining the benefits of a local port district

Port of Moses Lake executive director talks about the economic benefits of the port

MOSES LAKE — Don Kersey, executive director of the Port of Moses Lakes, sat in his corner office overlooking the Grant County International Airport thinking about a line he heard a lot growing up here. “We always knew that Moses Lake was going to grow, going to pop. It was always that’ll be next year and the next five years, but it’s gonna happen. It’s gonna happen,” Kersey said. “And we all sound like broken records.” ...

Proposal for old hospital site draws traffic concerns

The potential for increased traffic resulting from a proposed large apartment project on U.S. Highway 93 seemed to garner the top spot of concern last week for both the public and members of the Whitefish Planning Board.

10 dead, suspect arrested in mass shooting at supermarket

The suspected gunman was later identified as Payton Gendron, 18, of Conklin

Price uses illness to snuff smoking

Ray Price spends every hour of every day harnessed by plastic tubes to an oxygen bottle.

Moses Lake upset with fairgrounds proposal

MOSES LAKE — Some Moses Lake City Councilmembers oppose Grant County's attempt to install septic tanks and sewage drain fields at the fairgrounds.

Whitefish mulls downtown retail mandates

A mandate to require ground-floor retail space in downtown Whitefish is one of five downtown master-plan amendments that are the focus of a public hearing on Thursday before the Whitefish City-County Planning Board.

State approves purchase of Cabinet Mountains conservation easement

A second phase of the Upper Thompson Conservation Easement, encompassing another 13,297 acres in the area, will likely go before the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission for review in the coming years.

State approves purchase of Cabinet Mountains conservation easement

A second phase of the Upper Thompson Conservation Easement, encompassing another 13,297 acres in the area, will likely go before the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission for review in the coming years.

State approves purchase of Cabinet Mountains conservation easement

A second phase of the Upper Thompson Conservation Easement, encompassing another 13,297 acres in the area, will likely go before the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission for review in the coming years.

State approves purchase of 35,000-acre conservation easement in Cabinet Mountains

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission unanimously approved the purchase of a 34,610-acre conservation easement in the Cabinet Mountains at its June 11 meeting.

Lebanese leaders begin talks to form new crisis government

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's prime minister-designate began consultations on Wednesday to form a new, crisis Cabinet, a day after French President Emmanuel Macron said Lebanese politicians had committed to a road map that begins with the formation of a government within two weeks to enact reforms.

The Latest: WHO: Northern hemisphere at 'critical juncture'

GENEVA — The head of the World Health Organization warns that countries in the Northern hemisphere are at a “critical juncture” with rising cases and deaths.

EarthCache trail teaches geology of Missouri River

Staying sharp for four generations

Buck Knives continues to grow, evolve while honoring tradition

The first Buck knife was forged in 1902 and the rest of the Buck Knives legacy is history.

Poll shows disdain for Obamacare

There's no doubt about this one: Obamacare is reviled.

LAW ROUNDUP: Bike believed to be stolen

A woman on Edgewood Place reported to

Annual Desert Aire clean-up slated for April

DESERT AIRE - The annual Desert Aire clean-up has been set for April 20.

Free potatoes on Saturday

Free potatoes will be offered 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Heart of the City Church.

Sheriff says several unaccounted for in Lake Tahoe avalanche

Crews were responding to an avalanche at a Northern California ski resort Friday and several people were unaccounted for, the Placer County sheriff's office said in a tweet.