The board of commissioners in Lincoln County last week petitioned the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for a more permissive water quality standard at the U.S.-Canada border, where the ...

Construction to replace Sportsman’s Bridge northwest of Bigfork is slated to begin in early August, the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) announced Tuesday.  MDT plans to replace the current ...

I wrote a guest column outlining the scale of housing affordability challenges facing Whitefish. The thrust of the letter was this: Whitefish is the least affordable community in the fastest-growing ...

At the end of last summer, the Backslope Brewing crew was exhausted.  That could be said for just about any summer and at ...

Search teams located the site of an airplane crash that killed three people near Yellowstone National Park using the last ...

Big Mountain Ranch in Whitefish was once again filled with a sea of cowboy hats and sunburnt shoulders for the sixth iteration of Under the Big Sky music festival over the weekend of July 18-20. Folk ...

Scenes from the first day of Under the Big Sky Music Festival in Whitefish on July 18, 2025.

A star-studded lineup performed at Big Mountain Ranch outside Whitefish as part of this year’s Under the Big Sky music ...

What: Three-bedroom, three-bath home Square Feet: 3,123 This stunning single-level home sits 1.13 acres and features ...

Sometimes a policy decision is so reckless, so immoral, and so contrary to basic human decency that we have no choice but to name it for what it is. The Republican-led cuts to the United States Agency ...

The three-step drop is a fundamental part of any quarterback’s toolbox. After the snap the quarterback opens up their hips, takes a backwards crossover step with their front foot, and then plants on ...

In a recent letter to the Beacon, to which many of my legislative colleagues from the Flathead signed on to, it is postulated that real property tax reform was not yielded through SB 542. I agree with ...