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Kate Heston covers politics and natural resources for the Daily Inter Lake. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa's journalism program, previously worked as photo editor at the Daily Iowan and was a News21 fellow in Phoenix. She can be reached at kheston@dailyinterlake.com or 406-758-4459.

ARTICLES BY KATE HESTON

New medical imaging center opens in North Kalispell

The Montana Imaging Center, located just next to the water tower on U.S. 93, offers both magnetic resonance imaging, also called an MRI, and computerized tomography scans, also known as CT using Canon brand machines.
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Whooping cough cases jump in Flathead Valley

Flathead County has seen a spike in pertussis, or whooping cough, cases in recent months.
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Logan Health adds gynecological cancer services

Three experts on a Billings Clinic–Logan Health outreach team are providing the new service.
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Logan Health adds gynecological cancer services

Three experts on a Billings Clinic–Logan Health outreach team are providing the new service.
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Registration open for Logan Health fundraiser CycleMT

Logan Health will host its third annual stationary bike relay event in March to raise money for Montana children and young adults facing medical hardships.
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Kalispell’s Fair Trade Tattoo focuses on traditional tattoos

From opening a massive shop with Zac Brown from the Zac Brown Band in Georgia to competing on the TV show Ink Masters to making a name for himself in Hawaii, he has a breadth of experience in tattooing.
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Skin care company focuses on natural ingredients

Products that are all natural, all organic and sourced from the woods of Montana when possible.
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Skin care company focuses on natural ingredients

Upon entering the production facility and storefront in Bigfork, patrons are hit with the clean smells of herbs and natural ingredients.
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Logan Health to close inpatient rehabilitation unit

Logan Health is closing its inpatient rehabilitation facility in February with plans to turn the facility into a surgical unit. It’s a decision hospital Co-CEO Kevin Abell announced at the beginning of December in an email to staff.
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Community rallies for Kalispell business destroyed by fire

A fire ripped through Tanner and Jana Roach’s Kalispell business, Beck and Cap, in the early morning hours of Dec. 17, destroying everything within its walls.
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Logan Health to close inpatient rehabilitation unit

Logan Health is closing its inpatient rehabilitation facility in February with plans to turn the facility into a surgical unit. It’s a decision hospital Co-CEO Kevin Abell announced at the beginning of December in an email to staff.
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North Kalispell bustling with construction while more on the horizon

Some of the projects were approved just last year and others have been in the works for more than a decade. Construction is underway on a hotel on the west side of U.S. 93, while plans have been submitted to the city for a new Costco warehouse to the east.
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Led by faith, couple serves others around the globe

On Jan. 15, the couple is set to embark on their latest adventure: serving on a medical vessel with Mercy Ships in Papa New Guinea, the eastern half of the island New Guinea, just northwest of Australia.
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Kalispell massage therapist focuses on mind-body connection

Aly Aiyn George, born and raised in Eureka, opened her shop just across the street from Elrod Elementary in April. A year of renovations and work later, the building — originally built in 1893 — has a new, welcoming, fantasy sort of look with curving wood features.
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Dazzling Christmas light show awes viewers while giving to nonprofit

The lights, synchronized to music and displayed on the house and across the front lawn, have raised nearly $10,000 over the years.
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