Two events Friday and a host of activities on Monday mark observance of Memorial Day in the Flathead Valley:

Motorists soon may be able to drive 65 miles per hour once again along the stretch of U.S. 2 from Evergreen to Montana 40.

The Flathead County commissioners have turned down a proposal that would have combined dog licensing for the cities of Kalispell and Whitefish with the county licensing program.

SINGAPORE (AP) — The parents of an American software engineer who believe their son was murdered last year in Singapore withdrew from the inquest Wednesday, saying they have no confidence in the city-

Hikers and bikers can enjoy unrestricted access on Going-to-the-Sun Road over the Memorial Day weekend at Glacier National Park.

The meaning of music is impossible to define, since it means different things to different people. But as a language, music has distinct patterns, a near-universal means of communication. It can indicate a broad time and place, or it can be a feeling, a form of expression unique to those who create it. For Erica von Kleist, music is the force that has driven her life for the past 12 years. It ...

Softballs were already firing across the Glacier High School gymnasium just after 6 a.m. last week. With gloves and bats in hand, the Wolfpack were wide awake and at work, their conviction strong and their mission clear. “We’re not done,” said Glacier’s senior leader, Jena Willis. “I believe in these girls.” The Wolfpack have made believers out of a lot of people this season. After missing out ...

WASHINGTON — House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to avoid environmental review. The bill was approved, 241-175, largely along party lines.

The letter arrived in the governor's office in January, the request coming from students in a 104-year-old one-room school in one of the farthest reaches of Montana. Would Steve Bullock, recently sworn in as Montana's 24th governor, travel to the northwest corner of the state in May to serve as commencement speaker at McCormick School's eighth-grade graduation?

The National Weather Service in Missoula has issued an urban flood advisory in Flathead and Lake counties until 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. Heavy rainfall in the area could lead to road flooding, according to the weather service. The weather service said that Doppler radar has indicated moderate to heavy rainfall in the Mission Valley and that the storm will move north into the Flathead throughout the ...

KALISPELL - We celebrate outstanding athletic achievements by our athletes of the week every Wednesday night, but rarely do we get to talk about perfection.

GREAT FALLS - A man was given a six-year deferred sentence for sexually abusing a young girl for years.

HELENA - A pair of Montana Lottery players each have claimed a top prize for a Scratch game, including a woman from Western Montana.

WHITEHALL - A semi truck crash is disrupting travel on Montana Highway 55 south of Whitehall.

BELGRADE - A manhunt is continuing for a suspect who reportedly stole three vehicles and broke into a house on Thursday morning.

Keep checking here for updated results from all three state softball tournaments going on this week:

Federal officials have lifted their temporary hold on funding for a $361 million water pipeline for a Native American reservation in northern Montana.

Nearly 1,700 miles away in the Flathead, one student looks to give away what he has to survivors of the Oklahoma tornado.

Libby and Corvallis come out strong in Air Toxics Under The Big Sky Symposium.

Last fall, we told you how a Kalispell resident quit his job and went back to school to become a teacher. As the school year draws to a close, we revisit Flathead High School's Pat Reilly and talk about what his second career has taught him.

The Missoula Police Department has a new “zero tolerance” plan to enforce the law against blasting fireworks in city limits.

A Washington woman accused of driving really drunk on Interstate 90 in Montana probably won’t be going home anytime soon.

Search dogs led a pack of plant vigilantes up Mount Sentinel this week, scouring the hillside for a foreign invader.

While the self-proclaimed “tool girls” from Hellgate High School toiled under the May sun, singing the songs of a chain gang while swinging Pulaskis, their male counterparts ran screaming like grade-schoolers from a swarm of docile honeybees.

U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell told a congressional subcommittee Wednesday that he’s considering overriding Neptune Aviation’s protest of next-generation air tanker contracts in order to have firefighting planes available for this summer.

WHITEHALL - A semi truck crash is disrupting travel on Montana Highway 55 south of Whitehall.

BELGRADE - A manhunt is continuing for a suspect who reportedly stole three vehicles and broke into a house on Thursday morning.

HELENA - More than 80 WWII veterans returned to the Treasure State on Monday after participating in the fourth Big Sky Honor Flight.

WASHINGTON, DC - Senator Jon Tester believes the U.S. Forest Service could have saved millions of dollars if it had decided to hire air tankers that are already to fly and fight fires this summer, thereby preventing damage from wildfires.

ST. REGIS - It's a situation many visitor's information centers in Montana face, but the lack of funding for the one in St. Regis could mean that it'll shutdown.