Libby Loggers volleyball sweeps Browning

Each set featured lengthy point runs and rallies that kept fans from both sides on the edge of their seats in the Pink Game that helped raise money and awareness for breast cancer awareness and research.

FAST FIVE Uncork a good time with Trevor Treller

Meet Trevor Treller, one of Idaho’s few credentialed sommeliers.

Whitefish overpowers Butte Central

WHITEFISH — There were a few tricks and a lot of treats Friday as Whitefish defeated Butte Central 52-6 in a Class A football playoffs first round game.

California Daybook

Associated Press California Daybook for Friday, Jan. 17.

US official visiting Lebanon says the FBI will join Lebanese and international investigators in the Beirut blast probe

BEIRUT (AP) — US official visiting Lebanon says the FBI will join Lebanese and international investigators in the Beirut blast probe.

The Latest: Americans on ship to be taken to military bases

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The Latest: US Democratic leaders call for paid sick leave

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Glacier National Park caps off busy year while preparing for the next

All the while visitation to the park continues hovering at around 3 million per year. Through November of this year, the park saw 2,918,770 visitors, according to the National Park Service, which is already ahead of the 2022 visitor total of 2,908,458.

Inmate advocates say Montana’s reliance on private prisons comes at a cost

This January, CoreCivic announced a two-year contract with Montana to hold inmates at the Tallahatchie prison, an announcement that followed other contracts with CoreCivic’s Saguaro Correctional Center in Eloy, Ariz. In total, about 600 male inmates — roughly 20 percent of Montana’s adult male prison population — are imprisoned out of state.

The Latest: Russia’s vaccine available at Moscow facilities

MOSCOW — Russia’s coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V will be available for people in high-risk groups at 70 medical facilities in Moscow starting on Saturday.

Legals for March, 15 2021

PREP WRESTLING: Sandpoint's Tyler rallies for Rollie Lane title

Results from Saturday's Rollie Lane Invitational in Nampa, The Clash in Wisconsin, Pacific Northwest Classic in Spokane Valley and Orofino Invitational.

Part of the flock: Young fair competitors continue family tradition of showing sheep

Montana is one of the leading sheep-producing states in the U.S., with much of the state being well suited for sheep production, according to Montana State University.

The Latest: Virus pandemic changes shape of UN elections

UNITED NATIONS — The president of the United Nations General Assembly has banged his gavel to open U.N. elections under dramatically different voting procedures because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Nats' Strasburg cools down Reds

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Gifts of Love visits Montana Veterans Home

Residents of the Montana Veterans Home in Columbia Falls got a special treat right before Christmas as they were paid a special visit by a “wheelchair angel” as part of the Moving Forward Adaptive Sports Gifts of Love Program.

CLOSE UP: Bigfork students get firsthand look at U.S. Capitol

Thirty-seven Bigfork Middle School students got a close-up view of Washington, D.C., Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg recently.

Instructors for virtual class visit in person

MOSES LAKE — Four industry-based instructors visited the Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center on May 24, and video game programming student Logan Beck remarked on the change in perspective – from virtual to in-person learning for the first time this school year.

[Mary] Joan Davis-Gause, 94

[Mary] Joan Davis-Gause, 94

2021 was Glacier's 2nd busiest ever

Despite December visitation numbers being down 37% from a year ago, Glacier National Park finished 2021 with the second highest visitation on record, according to preliminary statistics released by the National Park Service on Monday.