Family-friendly fun on Halloween

The Flathead Lake Brewing Co. Pubhouse in Bigfork will be holding a costume party on Saturday, Oct. 28. Come dressed in your best Halloween costume for a chance to win prizes, including lift tickets to Whitefish Mountain Resort. Costume categories will be scariest, funniest, best couple and best overall costumes. Judging will be at 8 p.m. There will also be treats for all children who come dressed up.

Longview group buys I-90 auto dealership

Father, sons now own Moses Lake business

MOSES LAKE — The Longview, Wash.,-based Bud Clary Auto Group purchased I-90 Auto Group from owner Heidi Pehl, adding Moses Lake as its newest location for Chevrolets and Toyotas.

Can buildings help keep you healthy?

(ARA) - We spend 90 percent of our lives indoors, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). A typical day can include traveling from home to work and back home again with a few periodic trips to schools, the grocery store, the bank, malls and entertainment venues. We depend on our homes, offices, retail stores and other structures to keep us safe; but can buildings also help keep us healthy?

Washington may privatize liquor sales

SEATTLE - Thousands of cases of whiskey, vodka and rum zip along three miles of conveyor belts inside a massive distribution center in industrial south Seattle, the sole location for shipping booze to liquor stores across Washington state.

One Lakeside construction planned

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One Lakeside. That's evidently the name and address of the controversial 14-story condominium building planned for 1 Lakeside Ave., across the street from the Chamber of Commerce building. Demolition will probably start soon on the 12-unit apartment building there now.

'Everybody stops in there' (with video)

Bayview Mercantile set to reopen at end of the month

BAYVIEW - Visitors and residents can pick up that jug of milk soon.

End of an Era

It’s the end of an era in Columbia Falls. The Klothes Kloset thrift store at the north end of Nucleus Avenue will close in December, after about 70 years of giving back to the community.

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Pandemic backlash jeopardizes public health powers, leaders

Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone.

Pandemic backlash jeopardizes public health powers, leaders

Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone.

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Olive's Pastry opens in Post Falls

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Asia Today: Australian virus hot spot adds hospital beds

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s coronavirus hot spot, Victoria state, moved to increase available hospital beds Thursday and reported a record 317 new infections.

Asia Today: Australian virus hot spot adds hospital beds

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s coronavirus hot spot, Victoria state, moved to increase available hospital beds Thursday and reported a record 317 new infections.

Grant County Animal Outreach wants control

Outreach hopes to replace current shelter board

Area employers address high school students

Panel emphasizes work ethic, team player qualities

Microsoft brings Office to iPhone, but not tablets

Canyon celebrations rowdy as usual

Flathead County sheriff's deputies made six arrests during another year of unruly celebrations on the Fourth of July Saturday night in Hungry Horse.

Food purveyors get grades to display for public

The Flathead County Board of Health unanimously has approved a new program providing sanitation grades from A+ to F for restaurants and all retail food purveyors to post for the public to see.

Soap Lake residents voice concern over audit findings

SOAP LAKE — Soap Lake residents came out in full force to Wednesday night’s city council meeting to voice concern over a recent state audit that took issue with the Soap Lake Police Department’s use of equipment that was provided to the department through a surplus military program.