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News from Bryan Moser, Rapid City South Dakota News PIERRE SOUTH DAKOTA — Teammates Ron Couture of Ronan and Monty Marengo of Polson brought back five gold medals from the 2023 South Dakota Senior Olympics’ played on Sept. 7 in Pierre, South Dakota. Couture won the singles (ages 54-58 age group) round robin tournament play with a 2-1 record and teamed up with Marengo to also win the tournament men’s doubles play. It was the first of many tournaments for Couture who stated he will also play singles and doubles next August in Cheyenne, Wyoming, senior games. All 50 states have senior Olympics games starting at the age of 50 plus and in most cases offer over sixtee...

Story from the Aug. 30, 1912 issue of the Ronan Pioneer History of Ronan will date hereafter from August 24, 1912, the date of the big fire. On that day at between 2:30 and 2:45 p.m., the exact minute being in dispute, a fire was discovered in the automobile garage of Crawford & Clairmont, in the al...

KALISPELL — Advocates for the homeless are calling for compassion in Flathead County after a homeless man was murdered in Kalispell early Sunday morning.  The killing comes as the community struggles to deal with a growing homeless population that has become the subject of strong rhetoric from ...

FLATHEAD RESERVATION — “The American Buffalo,” Ken Burns’ upcoming documentary, took four years to produce, but the idea behind it can be traced back more than 30 years. Burns recently found an earlier version of a proposal for a film about bison in his files. It had been written i...

WHITEFISH — This weekend, skiers and riders on Whitefish’s Big Mountain were whooping and hollering as they plowed through deep powder during one of the rare instances where a significant winter storm overlapped with a long weekend when lots of people were planning to hit the slopes anyway. As Wh...

ST. IGNATIUS — Tribal Health recently invited nonprofit Tamarack Grief Resource to bring grief education and resources into the Flathead Valley. Tamarack, which has its primary office in Missoula with another location in Kalispell and a remote office in Browning, is the only year-round comprehensive...

News from Life in the Land MONTANA — Throughout Montana, human activity is directly intertwined within natural systems, creating a great opportunity to inspire healthy coexistence worldwide. Across the state, there are varying value systems and methods of interacting with the land and the life it ...

News from Janie Osborne, Montana Free Press BOZEMAN — The average cost to rent a one-bedroom apartment in Bozeman is nearing $2,000 a month.  Renters report dramatic monthly increases when their leases are up, and the vacancy rate is consistently below 2%. In short, you’re lucky to find...