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Taylor Inman goes over the week’s biggest headlines for Northwest Montana. A bat found dead in the St. Mary area has tested positive for white nose syndrome, the first confirmed case inside Glacier National Park, while conservation groups say Glacier maintenance projects appear on a leaked Park Service cut list. General big game season opens Saturday, Oct. 24, with Chronic Wasting Disease sampling...

This week, host Taylor Inman covers the biggest headlines from Northwest Montana, including a deadly shooting in Kalispell, a standoff and arrest in Whitefish, another delay for the Territory 1889 resort near Lakeside, and a rare bacterial disease detected in wildlife in Glacier National Park. One person was arrested following a shooting in Kalispell that left a 19-year-old man dead and three othe...

Daily Inter Lake reporter Taylor Inman was at the Majestic Valley Arena in Kalispell for President Donald Trump’s Wednesday, Oct. 14 rally, speaking with attendees as they waited in line for the doors to open. The rally was one of several late campaign stops ahead of the 2026 midterm election, held in a county where about 65% of voters backed Trump in 2024. Republican Aaron Flint, who is facing De...

Host Taylor Inman covers four stories from Northwest Montana this week. A Flathead Valley man faces a felony charge after allegedly biting a deputy near Kalispell, and the Forest Service begins screening a proposed Columbia Mountain tramway. Mineral County is still waiting on three patrol vehicles from a supplier facing fraud allegations in multiple states, and Flathead County receives a roughly $...

Host Taylor Inman covers this week's biggest Northwest Montana headlines - a Trego man's self-defense grizzly bear shooting, County Attorney Travis Ahner's bid for a district court vacancy, a dismissed federal lawsuit over EPA Superfund disclosure, approval for the first phase of the Territory 1889 development in Lakeside, and Whitefish musician Ethan Thompson's breakout moment...

October in the Flathead Valley comes with lederhosen, ghost stories, haunted hayrides and a dog costume contest. Host Melissa Wells has the full rundown of this month's events, from Oktoberfest in Whitefish to Peter and the Wolf with the Glacier Symphony.  Listen now and find every event at DailyInterLake.com/events . Northwest Montana deserves strong news reporting. Your donation helps conti...

Host Taylor Inman covers this week's biggest Northwest Montana headlines - a new emergency bear ordinance in Columbia Falls, a Governor and EPA-led tour of the Columbia Falls Aluminum Superfund site, PacifiCorp's process to sell the Bigfork Hydroelectric Dam, and a proposal for inflatable dams on St. Mary and Lower St. Mary lakes.  Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 00:42 - Columbia Falls passes em...

Host Taylor Inman covers this week's biggest Northwest Montana headlines - a contentious Mineral County sheriff standoff over missing patrol vehicles, the Montana Supreme Court's decision to uphold a Kalispell murder conviction, a small plane crash landing at Polson Airport, and a GoFundMe for a Columbia Falls woman recovering from a grizzly bear mauling. Link to Aubrey Scott's GoFu...

Host Taylor Inman covers a Kalispell police shooting during a weekend arrest, the wrap-up of Glacier National Park's timed parking pilot at Logan Pass, a $75.9 million Columbia Falls high school bond vote with ballots due Sept. 29, a record-breaking year for Flathead Electric's Ribeye Raffle benefiting local food banks, and a new paddle map for floating the Whitefish River.  Chapters: 00...

This spring, the Daily Inter Lake partnered with Kalispell Public Schools on Civic Voices, a news literacy course teaching Kalispell Middle School eighth graders the fundamentals of journalism. This August, six of those students returned as rising freshmen for a Storytelling Bootcamp, where they built on that foundation with hands-on interviewing and profile writing, telling the stories of six peo...

This spring, the Daily Inter Lake partnered with Kalispell Public Schools on Civic Voices, a news literacy course teaching Kalispell Middle School eighth graders the fundamentals of journalism. This August, six of those students returned as rising freshmen for a Storytelling Bootcamp, where they built on that foundation with hands-on interviewing and profile writing, telling the stories of six peo...

This spring, the Daily Inter Lake partnered with Kalispell Public Schools on Civic Voices, a news literacy course teaching Kalispell Middle School eighth graders the fundamentals of journalism. This August, six of those students returned as rising freshmen for a Storytelling Bootcamp, where they built on that foundation with hands-on interviewing and profile writing, telling the stories of six peo...

This spring, the Daily Inter Lake partnered with Kalispell Public Schools on Civic Voices, a news literacy course teaching Kalispell Middle School eighth graders the fundamentals of journalism. This August, six of those students returned as rising freshmen for a Storytelling Bootcamp, where they built on that foundation with hands-on interviewing and profile writing, telling the stories of six peo...

This spring, the Daily Inter Lake partnered with Kalispell Public Schools on Civic Voices, a news literacy course teaching Kalispell Middle School eighth graders the fundamentals of journalism. This August, six of those students returned as rising freshmen for a Storytelling Bootcamp, where they built on that foundation with hands-on interviewing and profile writing, telling the stories of six peo...

This spring, the Daily Inter Lake partnered with Kalispell Public Schools on Civic Voices, a news literacy course teaching Kalispell Middle School eighth graders the fundamentals of journalism. This August, six of those students returned as rising freshmen for a Storytelling Bootcamp, where they built on that foundation with hands-on interviewing and profile writing, telling the stories of six peo...

Host Taylor Inman covers the week's biggest Northwest Montana headlines - a bear attack that closed a Columbia Falls trail, a Kalispell man's not guilty plea in a school arson case, confirmation that the Deer Creek Fire was human-caused, pushback on proposed license plate readers at a Kalispell town hall, and a Libby structure fire that hospitalized two men.   Chapters:  00:00 - Intro  0...

Host Taylor Inman covers the week's biggest headlines from Northwest Montana. Columbia Falls Community Market is racing to raise $1 million by Sept. 7 to buy the land it operates on, while Flathead County has picked an architect to rebuild the 118-year-old grandstands at the fairgrounds. Crews finished capping a leaking, century-old oil well near Kintla Lake in Glacier National Park, and oper...

Host Melissa Wells rounds up the biggest events on tap across Northwest Montana this September, from the Whitefish Songwriter Festival and the 10th annual Clash of the Carvers in Libby to the debut of Treetop Volume 001 at Blacktail Mountain and a Fleetwood Mac tribute at the O'Shaughnessy. Along the way, catch a Nashville songwriter collaboration with the Glacier Symphony, a Phil Collins tri...

Host Taylor Inman covers the biggest headlines shaping Northwest Montana this week - a felony assault charge against a Nevada man tied to a brutal beating near Glacier Park International Airport, a court ruling upholding Lakeside's wastewater expansion permit despite a challenge from local watchdog groups, a small BNSF-sparked fire near Trout Creek that was quickly contained, and a vaccine ef...

Taylor Inman rounds up the week's biggest stories from Northwest Montana from this week. Developers behind a proposed 97-slip marina in Bigfork Bay pulled their permit application after pushback from the community. A Flathead County lawsuit accuses a Kalispell man of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his father, the longtime Conrad Cemetery groundskeeper, and forcing him into uns...

Taylor Inman breaks down five major stories shaping Northwest Montana - from a tense standoff in Kalispell to bears pushing into town as the huckleberry crop comes up short. A suspect is in custody after Kalispell Police responded to reports of a man threatening violence on Airport Road. 43-year-old Brian Weidner was taken into custody without incident after negotiations, with help from the Northw...

Five major stories shaping Northwest Montana this week - from a fatal fire at a Kalispell roofing business to a deadly rockfall on Going-to-the-Sun Road. Daily Inter Lake reporter Taylor Inman breaks down the headlines you need to know. The cause of a fatal fire at a roofing business west of Kalispell remained under investigation this week, after one man died in a multi-alarm blaze that tore throu...

August is one of the busiest months of the year in Northwest Montana, and Melissa Wells is back with your complete guide to everything happening across the Flathead Valley. From the beloved Huckleberry Days Art Festival in Whitefish to the Northwest Montana Fair & Rodeo in Kalispell, this month's episode covers the can't-miss festivals, concerts, fairs, family events, food, arts, liv...

Join host Taylor Inman for 4 major stories shaping Northwest Montana - from Glacier's Logan Pass shuttle system holding steady through peak season to a bison baby boom on the Flathead Reservation. Glacier's new Logan Pass shuttle system is running full since the Highline Trail opened, according to Superintendent David Roemer. The park now limits parking to three hours at Logan Pass and t...

Join Daily Inter Lake reporter Taylor Inman as she goes over five major stories shaping Northwest Montana this week - from forever chemicals detected in the Flathead Watershed to a new flood-resilient bridge for Farm to Market Road. The University of Montana's Flathead Lake Biological Station has confirmed the presence of forever chemicals and pharmaceutical compounds in the Flathead Watershe...