Local News
News from Friends of Children - Western Montana Partners POLSON — Friends of the Children – Western Montana is partnering with Valley Bank in Polson and the Lake County Courthouse to help bring joy and warmth to the 32 children enrolled in the organization’s Flathead Nation program this holiday season. Through the annual Friends Giving Tree initiative, community members are invited to visit Valley Bank (213 1st St. W, Polson) or the Lake County Courthouse (106 4th Ave. E, Polson) to adopt a Giving Tree tag. Each tag represents a child and includes gift wishes that will help them feel cared for, valued, and supported during the holidays. “Our children deser...
News from Flathead Valley Community College KALISPELL — Flathead Valley Community College’s Art Department is offering two ways for the community to support art students as they finish up the fall semester. First up is the FVCC Art Department’s annual Student Art Club Sale on ...
POLSON — On Wednesday Dec. 3, at approximately 3:30 p.m. the City of Polson Fire Department was dispatched to a report of a vehicle submerged in the river, off the corner of 7th Ave. W and Kerr Dam Road. Arriving units found no occupants around the vehicle, and a search with underwater drone found no o...
News from The Montana ShamRockers POLSON — The Montana ShamRockers, Polson’s own premiere Irish folk group, presents a free Christmas Concert at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13, at Polson’s beautiful Theatre on the Lake, home of Port Polson Players. The family-friendly program features tra...
News from the Lake County Planning Board LAKE COUNTY — The Lake County Planning Board is currently seeking volunteers to serve on the following boards: Lake County Planning Board, Board of Adjustment, Planning & Zoning Commission, and City County Planning Board. Appointments begin on Jan...
By MHP Colonel Kurt Sager MONTANA — This holiday season, we want every Montanan and visitor to get to and from their destination safely. December is National Impaired Driving Prevention Month because during the holidays we tend to see an increase in DUI crashes and fatalities as there ar...
BOZEMAN — Montana State University will select educators and organizations in five rural Montana communities to host a fully sponsored Geospatial Skills Camp for high school students in June 2026. The camp is being made possible thanks to a $430,000, three-year grant awarded to MSU’s Science M...
BOZEMAN — Montana State University and Gallatin Valley communities donated the equivalent of more than one million pounds of food, a record amount, to the Gallatin Valley Food Bank and MSU’s Bounty of the Bridgers food pantry as part of the 26th annual Can the Griz food drive. Can the Gr...
Join Helping Hands in supporting our community this Holiday Season News from Helping Hands POLSON — This holiday season, Helping Hands is inviting you to be part of our “Holiday Hands” Campaign. We are seeking volunteers to help man our green buckets, collecting donations that wil...
News from the office of Governor Gianforte HELENA — On Nov. 25, Governor Greg Gianforte and First Lady Susan Gianforte joined staff and volunteers at Helena Food Share to help assemble meal packs distributed weekly to students and to encourage all Montanans to support their local food bank this ho...
