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  • 3 days ago | flatheadbeacon.com | Maggie Dresser

    Transportation GPIA will be closed from Monday evening to Friday morning over four consecutive weeks next July as crews rehabilitate the main airport runway By Maggie Dresser June 24, 2025 Glacier Park International Airport (GPIA) officials announced today that there will be limited aircraft operations in July 2026 to complete a critical rehabilitation project, an infrastructure improvement that local business leaders say will disrupt tourism during peak visitation in northwest Montana....

  • 1 week ago | flatheadbeacon.com | Maggie Dresser

    Courts A Flathead County jury in April convicted 39-year-old Derrick James Jackson of murdering his mother's boyfriend at the family's Bigfork residence in 2022, but acquitted him in the death of his 62-year-old mother By Maggie Dresser June 17, 2025 A 39-year-old man convicted of fatally shooting his mother’s boyfriend in their Bigfork home was sentenced Tuesday to 100 years in the Montana State Prison, a punishment the judge said accounts for the defendant’s lengthy criminal history, drug...

  • 2 weeks ago | flatheadbeacon.com | Maggie Dresser

    Environment Séliš Ksanka Ql’ispé (SKQ) Dam in Polson plans to reduce its outflows by 45%, a tradeoff that will limit water to the lower river's fisheries and reduce electricity production By Maggie Dresser June 13, 2025 As water levels on Flathead Lake are projected to reach historic lows, the U.S. Secretary of Interior today approved a plan allowing operators at the Séliš Ksanka Ql’ispé (SKQ) Dam in Polson to implement a 45% reduction in minimum outflows, a stopgap measure that will keep...

  • 2 weeks ago | flatheadbeacon.com | Maggie Dresser

    Crime A scam that claims to be from the Montana Department of Motor Vehicles directs recipients to a fraudulent website designed to steal personal and financial information By Maggie Dresser June 11, 2025 The Kalispell Police Department has issued a scam warning regarding fraudulent Montana Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) messages that threaten enforcement actions unless unpaid traffic tickets are resolved.

  • 2 weeks ago | flatheadbeacon.com | Maggie Dresser

    Monday, May 2612:42 p.m. An off-leash poodle was playing fetch but a fellow park-goer “did not like it.”7:30 p.m. “Many trucks and motorcycles” were “zooming” and revving engines on the streets of Kalispell. 9:35 p.m. A young man was residing in a tree behind the church. Tuesday, May 275:09 p.m. The victim of an e-bike theft suspected the “people that she knows that do drugs” probably stole it.

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Derick Perkins

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Jack Underhill

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Sean Wells

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Sean Wells primarily covers news in the Flathead Valley region of Montana, United States, including areas around Kalispell and Whitefish.

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10 May 21

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