State wildfire season costs $95M

Montana escaped the 2018 fire season bearing a fraction of the damage incurred in 2017, with a total of 1,239 fire starts accounting for a loss of approximately 96,000 acres, according to a year-to-date report by the Northern Rockies Coordination Center.

Pilot pens book on hang gliding, other flying adventures

Third generation Montanan, Robert Combs of Bigfork has published a book, “The Wings of Men,” covering his 50 years of flying hang gliders and light sport trikes around the world and featuring an introduction from Darlene Cecil, managing editor of the Daily Inter Lake in the early 1980s.

New game warden excited to explore Mineral County

Growing up in Helena, Cody Stipcich thoroughly enjoyed hunting and fishing with his dad, but becoming a game warden was not a childhood dream.

Taxing dilemmas

The plight of a legislator might be something like this; you wake up well before dawn with a math problem before you. In my case, here’s the problem: There are 6,485 residential properties valued at between 1.75 million and 3 million dollars. Within that subgroup, there are a percentage of homeowners who are cash poor and increasingly, property rich.

Protests force Target, CVS and Walmart to close some stores

U.S. retailers large and small have closed some of their stores across the country because of disruptions caused by the widespread street protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Country Store moves to new location

Snowflakes as big as quarters didn’t deter the Country Store crew on Saturday morning as they hauled boxes of household goods, toys and clothing racks to a waiting trailer. As soon as the racks were in the trailer, volunteers carried out armloads of clothes on hangers and re-hung them for the short trip to their new digs, around the corner at the former Odyssey Auto Glass building at 5 4th Ave. West in Polson.

Protests force Target, CVS and Walmart to close some stores

U.S. retailers large and small have closed some of their stores across the country because of disruptions caused by the widespread street protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

Protests force Target, CVS and Walmart to close some stores

U.S. retailers large and small have closed some of their stores across the country because of disruptions caused by the widespread street protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

The Latest: China's Xi calls for cooperation on vaccine

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping is calling for closer international cooperation on making a vaccine for the coronavirus available.

SUV goes from All-American to global star

Target's here, record's bunk, Miller's got a gun, Young's old and Woodruff will rock

It's official, Target has a bull's eye on us.

Child tax credit starts hitting US families' bank accounts

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Child tax credit starts hitting US families' bank accounts

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Child tax credit starts hitting US families' bank accounts

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Child tax credit starts hitting US families' bank accounts

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Money in the bank: Child tax credit dollars head to parents

WASHINGTON (AP) — The child tax credit had always been an empty gesture to millions of parents like Tamika Daniel.

Money in the bank: Child tax credit dollars head to parents

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Child tax credit starts hitting US families' bank accounts

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G-7 gathers to pledge 1B coronavirus vaccine shots for world

CARBIS BAY, England (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson greeted world leaders on a wooden boardwalk atop the freshly raked sand of Carbis Bay to open the Group of Seven summit Friday, offering elbow bumps to dignitaries and urging countries not to let the pandemic leave a lasting scar of inequality.

Bumper crop of morels hits Flathead Valley

It’s prime time for morel mushroom hunting in the Flathead Valley. The oblong fungi draw truckloads of harvesters to the forest from early May through August in search of these natural treasures. Morels are lauded for their nutty, earthy flavors and make appearances on local menus in the form of sauces, soups and burger toppings.