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Helicopter crash kills Whitefish banker
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Two men, including the founder of a Whitefish bank, were killed Wednesday in a helicopter crash at a Southern California airport.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO
Appeals court to hear Glacier Park murder case
A federal appeals court will hear arguments in the case of a Kalispell woman who pleaded guilty to pushing her new husband to his death from a cliff in Glacier National Park.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Wildfires across Montana have covered 334,000 acres
HELENA — Montana’s fire season has grown to the second-largest so far this decade after lightning storms last month ignited a rash of fires that spread rapidly amid bone-dry conditions.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO
Crowds pouring into national parks
Visitors heading to the Grand Canyon lately know they are going to get two things when they arrive: breathtaking views and long waits, whether it is to get into the national park itself or to find a parking spot inside. A few frustrated tourists have even turned around and left.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Settlement may allow logging to resume
The state Land Board on Monday approved a proposed lawsuit settlement between Montana and three conservation groups that would protect grizzly bears while still allowing logging in two state forests west of Glacier National Park.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO
Yellowstone joins Glacier in rising visitor popularity
As Yellowstone National Park moves into the busiest part of the year, June saw record-setting attendance numbers.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AGO
Unemployment report includes reservation data
HELENA — Montana officials for the first time are compiling monthly unemployment rates for the state’s seven Indian reservations.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Lincoln County native at center of race dispute
SPOKANE — Rachel Dolezal, a native of Lincoln County, leads the Spokane chapter of the NAACP, teaches African studies to college students and sits on a police oversight commission.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Court upholds $618,000 restitution for crash
HELENA — The Montana Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that a Bigfork man must pay over $618,000 in restitution to a woman whose leg was amputated after a vehicle crash.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Bigfork man guilty of crashing into bus
A 19-year-old Bigfork man has pleaded guilty to criminal endangerment and drunk-driving charges for rear-ending a school bus that had stopped to drop off students near Polson.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO
Judge dismisses tribes' lawsuit over Flathead water
A federal judge has refused to get involved in a fight over water rights between the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and nontribal farmers and ranchers on the Flathead Indian Reservation.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AGO
Bird flu detected in Judith Basin County chickens
State Department of Livestock officials say bird flu has been confirmed in chickens in Judith Basin County less than a week after the disease killed a captive falcon in Columbia Falls.
DAILY INTER-LAKE | UPDATED 11 YEARS AGO
