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Ronan firefighters jumped out of bed at about 3:40 a.m. Sunday to respond to the call of smoke coming from the Pheasant Lounge in Ronan.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Randy Scott Drollinger, 61, of Kalispell died Monday when a tree fell on him at a logging camp near Lake Mary Ronan.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 8 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
An uncooperative woman injured two Lake County sheriff’s deputies after she attempted to ram their vehicles in Finley Point at about 5 a.m. Friday.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
A shooting at a home in Pablo at about 1 p.m. Monday wounded a woman and forced the lockdown of Pablo Elementary School.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
When I go to Walmart, I want to party. And I like to think its employees do too.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
A small, single-engine private plane crashed in a field near St. Mary Lake Road and Repass Trail in St. Ignatius at about 9:30 a.m. Monday.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Attorneys for the Flathead Joint Board of Control on Wednesday added a new defendant — the state of Montana — to a lawsuit over the water rights compact for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Several students were injured — none seriously — when a pickup truck driving at 78 mph slammed into the back of a school bus near Polson on Monday afternoon.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO
Three Blue Bay residents were wounded by gunshots at their home on Friday.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 9 YEARS, 12 MONTHS AGO
The National Weather Service in Missoula issued both freeze and wind warnings for the Flathead and Mission Valleys during the next 48 hours.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
POLSON – A CSKT officer making regular rounds found a “wanted” man near the intersection of 11th Ave. and 4th Street West, but lost after two foot chases and two attempted take-downs, said CSKT Captain Louie Fiddler.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
FLATHEAD LAKE – Dispatchers received two Flathead Lake water emergency calls around 7 p.m. Aug. 2.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
ARLEE – Good fortune turned to bad luck and a life-and-death emergency for one family who traveled to the Polson area to buy a motor home Saturday.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
RONAN – An elderly Whitefish man was found dead in a field near his rented car in Ronan Aug. 21, said Lake County Undersheriff Dan Yonkin, but authorities do not know why.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Crime doesn't pay in Lake County. Neither do infractions.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
SEELY – Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Elder Pat Pierre inspired firefighters at 7 a.m. briefing today (Aug. 17.) with a homily delivered in Salish and English.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
POLSON – Murder charges against Clifford Oldhorn will be dismissed if both sides can agree on one word: Prejudice.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
POLSON BAY - Rescuers found the body of missing Polson doctor, Robert W. McDonald around 2:45 p.m., July 25 in Flathead Lake south of Big Bull Island.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
ST. IGNATIUS – A two-year-old male bobcat is on the loose in Mission and its owners concerned.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
“They got four good bites up one leg and another one on the other thigh,” Zack’s mother Kelly Whipple said.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
POLSON – Barbara Buchli spent the last three weeks in the hot Polson sun perched on a hydraulic lift with a paint brush in her hand.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
(These public records were obtained at the Lake County Court after defendants appeared before Judge Deborah Kim Christopher July 10.)
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
POLSON – Shannon Turner’s kids used to walk from their Polson schools to the courthouse each afternoon to wait for their mom to get off work.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
My husband was offended when I told him he was so lazy his eyelids didn’t open all the way.
LAKE COUNTY LEADER | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
