Heavy snow predicted for Northeast as Midwest still struggles with Thanksgiving weather snarls

About 300 flights into and out of O’Hare had been canceled by early Sunday evening, while about 1,600 had been delayed, according to the tracking site FlightAware. Dozens remained canceled or delayed there into Monday, and commuting conditions on roads were expected to remain dangerous in some areas well into Monday night.

Mayor says state of city is 'strong'

Whitefish is a booming city with more commercial and residential growth occurring every year, along with that it experiences spike in population in the summer months from visitors and residents alike.

Vatican indicates support to exhume babies at Irish home

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has indicated its support for a campaign to provide a proper Christian burial for hundreds of babies and toddlers by first exhuming their bodies from the grounds of a Catholic-run Irish home for unwed mothers.

Nixon library offers new take on Watergate

YORBA LINDA, Calif. - For years, Richard Nixon's presidential library was accused of committing another Watergate cover-up. But now, archivists say, the stonewalling is over.

Popularity soars for Kalispell day camps

Kalispell’s day camps for area youngsters at Woodland Park are proving exceedingly popular this summer, among both working parents and their children.

THE READERS ROAR

Letters pour in on controversial mask mandate reversal

Most readers furious with health board decision.

The Latest: India has another biggest 1-day jump in cases

NEW DELHI: India reported 9,971 new coronavirus cases Sunday in another biggest single-day spike, a day before it prepares to reopen shopping malls, hotels and religious places after a 10-week lockdown.

County officials continue effort to improve animal shelter

The commissioners were unanimous in their support for the county to run the facility.

Business Highlights

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Neighborhood of the week: Hayden Homes at Tullamore

Tullamore is a master planned community conveniently located at the intersection of Highway 41 and Poleline Avenue in Post Falls. Although there were a number of builders involved when the community began in 2007, Hayden Homes is now the primary organization designing and building attractive, affordable one- and two-story homes in this neighborhood.

Earthquake and aftershocks rattle Western Montana

LINCOLN — An earthquake strong enough to rouse sleeping residents more than 100 miles from its epicenter struck Western Montana early Thursday.

Surviving in America's Black Belt amid pandemic and job loss

SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Life can be tough even on a good day in the Black Belt, where some of the poorest people in America are, as usual, depending on each other to survive. Their struggle has become even more difficult with unemployment intensifying and

Hedges offer beauty, privacy and enhancement

Many years ago, Valle wrote of hedgerows — the type that once bordered cultivated fields in the U.S. and still exist in great numbers in the British Isles. Today, I tone down that beautiful practice into a very practical land-scape planting consideration, hedges.

Earthquake and aftershocks rattle Western Montana

LINCOLN — An earthquake strong enough to rouse sleeping residents more than 100 miles from its epicenter struck Western Montana early Thursday.

Quake rouses slumbering residents

LINCOLN — An earthquake strong enough to rouse sleeping residents more than 100 miles from its epicenter struck Western Montana early Thursday.

Top contenders still around for Week 2

WIMBLEDON, England - About 18 months removed from his last Grand Slam championship, Roger Federer figures it's about time for another - his record-tying seventh at Wimbledon.

Legals August 16, 2019

No. 26437 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: ABANDONMENT OF PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY PETITION NO. 504 - PORTION 5TH STREET WEST, HUNGRY HORSE, MT Notice is hereby given that the Board of Viewers has reported to the Flathead County Board of Commissioners on the abandonment of that certain public right-of-way on a portion of 5th Street West in Hungry Horse, MT that can legally be described as follows: A tract of land, situated, lying, and being in a portion of 5th Street West, as shown on the plat of first addition to Hungry Horse City, and in Government Lot 9 and the Southeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 6, Township 30 North, Range 19 West, Flathead County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows to wit: Commencing at a found iron pin being in the southwest corner of Lot 39, Block 14 of the plat of First Addition to Hungry Horse City (records of Flathead County, Montana), which is on the east right-of-way of 5th Street West; Thence West 60.00 feet to the true point of beginning of the tract of land herein described: Thence South 720.08 feet; Thence West 20.85 feet to the northeast corner of Lot 13, Block 5, of the plat of South Fork (records of Flathead County, Montana), which is on the west right-of-way of 5th Street West; Thence North 989.63 feet to a round iron pin being the southwest corner of Lot 26, Block 15 of the plat of First Addition to Hungry Horse City (records of Flathead County, Montana), which is on the south right-of-way of River Drive; Thence along said right-of-way S54o31'47"E 25.60 feet; Thence South 254.69 feet to the point of beginning and containing .470 ACRE. Notice is hereby given to the petitioners or landowners, as disclosed by the last assessment roll of Flathead County, owning land abutting the portion of the right-of-way on 5th Street West in Hungry Horse, as described above, that it is being considered for abandonment. The public hearing on this petition for the proposed abandonment is set for Wednesday, August 28, 2019 at 9:15 o'clock a.m. in the Commissioners' Chambers, Third Floor, County Courthouse, 800 South Main, Kalispell, Montana. For further information, please call 758-5537. DATED this 13th day of August, 2019. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Flathead County, Montana By: /s/ Philip B. Mitchell Philip B. Mitchell, Chairperson August 16, 23, 2019 MNAXLP ______________________

10 Scenic Drives, 10,000 miles, 47 days

With a love for road trips, Sheri Wallace and her family decided to drive the Top 10 Scenic Drives in the Northern Rockies for their summer vacation. They stopped in Bonners Ferry on July 22, while traveling the International Selkirk Loop.

Jim and Melissa Hightower: Domino's Dynamic Duo

IN PERSON

COEUR d'ALENE - Jim and Melissa Hightower are husband and wife, best friends and business partners. And believe it or not, they're still smiling, laughing and having fun.

Argentine Jorge Bergoglio elected Pope Francis

VATICAN CITY (AP) - From "the end of the earth," the Catholic Church found a surprising new leader Wednesday, a pioneer pope from Argentina who took the name Francis, a pastor rather than a manager to resurrect a church and faith in crisis. He is the first pontiff from the New World and the first non-European since the Middle Ages.