Dogs stun top-ranked Cats

WHITEFISH — Anything can happen in a rivalry game — like the No. 1 team in the state dropping its first game of the season to an opponent on a two-game losing streak.

Trivia trend spreads across the Flathead Valley

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Question: Which country in the world produces the most coffee?

Educator's life shaped by rural-school experience

With 354 undergraduate credits and a college career at the University of Montana that spanned eight years before he got his teaching degree, Jack Eggensperger has a simple explantion: “I loved going to school.”

No 'stand down' order in Benghazi

WASHINGTON (AP) — The testimony of nine military officers undermines contentions by Republican lawmakers that a “stand-down order” held back military assets that could have saved the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans killed at a diplomatic outpost and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya.

Wildcats rely on defense to down Wolfpack

After pledging to play with more intensity on defense, the visiting Columbia Falls boys (6-2 overall) found their form in the second quarter against Glacier (4-3), holding the Wolfpack to just five points in the frame, building a 15-point halftime lead that would hold up under pressure in the second half to win 65-57 in a nonconference basketball game Thursday night.

Defense does it for Columbia Falls

Luke Kazlauskas picked the perfect moment to prove Cary Finberg's point.

Whitefish townsfolk: City Hall should stay

Electronic poll taken on possible sites

The majority of people at a town meeting Thursday to study site options for a new City Hall in Whitefish believe a new facility should be rebuilt on the current City Hall site.

Capital slips past Flathead

For the second time this season, the Flathead boys played neck and neck with Helena Capital but came up short. The Braves frustrated Capital all night but couldn't make enough shots at the end, losing 48-42 at home on Friday.

Othello Chamber hosts annual awards banquet

OTHELLO — The Othello Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual awards banquet on Friday night at Bethel Assembly of God Church in Othello.

Draghi takes helm in Italy, focused on pandemic recovery aid

ROME (AP) — Mario Draghi, the man largely credited with saving the euro currency, took the helm as Italy's premier Saturday after assembling a government of economic experts and other technocrats along with career politicians from across the spectrum to guide the pandemic-devastated nation toward recovery.

McCain Foods one of many Washington companies honored for hiring veterans

OLYMPIA — The state Employment Security Department has recognized 12 Washington businesses/agencies for their efforts to employ military veteran in 2017. 

Lawmakers consider expanding affordable housing financing program

The program offers loans against Montana’s coal trust fund to subsidize apartments priced at rents affordable for lower-income Montanans. A pending bill would double its funding.

Draghi takes helm in Italy, focused on pandemic recovery aid

ROME (AP) — Mario Draghi, the man largely credited with saving the euro currency, took the helm as Italy's premier Saturday after assembling a government of economic experts and other technocrats along with career politicians from across the spectrum to guide the pandemic-devastated nation toward recovery.

Draghi takes helm in Italy, focused on pandemic recovery aid

ROME (AP) — Mario Draghi, the man largely credited with saving the euro currency, took the helm as Italy's premier Saturday after assembling a government of economic experts and other technocrats along with career politicians from across the spectrum to guide the pandemic-devastated nation toward recovery.

Draghi takes helm in Italy, focused on pandemic recovery aid

ROME (AP) — Mario Draghi, the man largely credited with saving the euro currency, took the helm as Italy's premier Saturday after assembling a government of economic experts and other technocrats along with career politicians from across the spectrum to guide the pandemic-devastated nation toward recovery.

Biden sets May 1 target to have all adults vaccine-eligible

WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after the nation was brought to a near-standstill by the coronavirus, President Joe Biden used his first prime-time address Thursday night to announce his plan to make all adults vaccine-eligible by May 1 and “begin to mark our independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July. He offered Americans fresh hope and appealed anew for their help.

Biden aims for quicker shots, virus 'independence' by July 4

WASHINGTON (AP) — One year after the nation was brought to a near-standstill by the coronavirus, President Joe Biden pledged in his first prime-time address Thursday night to make all adults eligible for vaccines by May 1 and raised the prospect of “independence from this virus” by the Fourth of July. He offered Americans fresh hope and appealed anew for their help.

Retained jurisdiction in sex offense case

Jacob James Orville Gunter, 29, will proceed through the courts retained jurisdiction program for a count of lewd conduct. Another sexual assault case involving Gunter was sentenced in tandem with the first, a third sexual assault case was dismissed during the court process.

As Native Americans fight virus, basketball takes a timeout

PHOENIX (AP) — Basketball is woven into the fabric of Native American life.

As Native Americans fight virus, basketball takes a timeout

PHOENIX (AP) — Basketball is woven into the fabric of Native American life.