Daily Inter Lake

The Daily Inter Lake is a daily newspaper located in Kalispell, Montana, which serves as the county seat of Flathead County. It was established in 1889 by a local couple, Clayton and Emma Ingalls, in the earlier town of Demersville. Just two years later, the newspaper relocated to the newly developed city of Kalispell.

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Plan for new Kalispell library branch hits funding snags

8 hours ago | dailyinterlake.com | Kate Heston

Funding worries have temporarily shelved the purchase of land near the Kalispell Center Mall for a future library branch. “We’re feeling pretty insecure right now about funding,” said Flathead County Library Trustee Jane Wheeler at Tuesday’s meeting of the board’s facilities committee. “It looks like the county will not release anything ...
Online cooking show aims to revive indigenous traditions in the kitchen

1 day ago | dailyinterlake.com | Kate Heston

Mariah Gladstone pulls a butternut squash out of her bag and places it on a cutting board in a classroom at Flathead Valley Community College. The keynote speaker for the annual Earth Day expo, Gladstone owns Indigikitchen, an online cooking show dedicated to re-indigenizing diets by providing knowledge on how to find and prepare foods for health, but in the case of Natives also for the added benefit of cultural revitalization. The name comes from combining Indigenous, digital and kitchen.
Transformation of Kalispell Center Mall aims to make it a downtown destination

4 days ago | dailyinterlake.com | Kate Heston

Future plans for the Kalispell Center Mall include redesigning the Main Street property to include an event space, new retail spots, restaurants, and potentially adding a national grocery chain as part of a vision to make it an “active18-hour spot.” “It’s an asset that’s been under-utilized for a good bit of time,” said John Doubleday with SHOP Companies, the Texas company that acquired the mall last year.
Todd Pratt: New yet familiar face

4 days ago | dailyinterlake.com | Josh Amick

Since their inception in 2022, the Glacier Range Riders have hired a new manager every offseason with the hiring of Todd Pratt in November making it four straight seasons under new leadership. But Pratt is far from new to the team. Before clubhouses were installed in the stadium and Glacier Bank Park became the ballpark it is today, Pratt had the opportunity to take the reins as manager the Riders’ inaugural season. The timing wasn’t right for him and his family. Now it is.
Nonprofits warn AmeriCorps cuts will reduce community services

4 days ago | dailyinterlake.com | Hailey Smalley

Cuts to national AmeriCorps programs are creating uncertainty for community organizations that have long relied on the program to fill staffing gaps. The Trump administration last month rescinded about $400 million in grant funds supporting AmeriCorps members serving in local and regional programs. About 80 members stationed in Montana were abruptly released from service as a result, according to a May 7 press release from the Montana AmeriCorps Alumni Council.
New coffee shop Glacier Grinds brews up in Kalispell

4 days ago | dailyinterlake.com | Kate Heston

On a sunny Friday morning in April, Glacier Grinds, one of Kalispell’s newest coffee shops, is full of energy. The espresso machine grinds behind the shop’s bar counter as baristas make variations of coffee and energy drinks. A mom sits at the bar, talking to the baristas as they work, while her daughter sits to the side and makes her own coffee on a toy coffee machine. It’s the sort of place owner Hailey Owens hoped to eventually see and one she hopes to continue to grow.
Tune in to the next cheeky episode of Whitefish Cabaret

4 days ago | dailyinterlake.com | Hilary Matheson

With a satiric song in their heart and a bawdy joke on their minds, the Whitefish Cabaret has slipped into something more comfortable for the summer season. During a Saturday morning rehearsal in April, company members David Blair, Becky Rygg, Collette Strean, Mikey Winn and production manager Kelsie Gripentrog gathered at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish to give a sneak preview of what's in store ahead of the show’s opening.
Author weaves journey of motherhood into novel

4 days ago | dailyinterlake.com | Kate Heston

Motherhood is beautiful and challenging, a concept many mothers may resonate with, Sierra Zemke says. A mother of two young children, Zemke, has taken her experiences with motherhood as inspiration in writing her first fiction novel. Sitting in a Kalispell park, while her children Elijah and Cherish played on the monkey bars Zemke talks about the book, along with the difficulties and joys that come with motherhood that ultimately inspired the book. “It’s worth it,” she says of being a mom.
Columbia Falls downs Whitefish, secures North conference

5 days ago | dailyinterlake.com | Josh Amick

WHITEFISH — On a warm Friday evening, Columbia Falls head coach Chad Green was showered off with a water bucket as the team celebrated their 12-0 victory over their rival Whitefish in high school baseball at Smith Fields. “He’s kind of a grumpy guy so we figured let’s get him fired up a little bit with the water bucket,” senior Reggie Sapa said. The Wildcats won their eighth straight game to improve to 13-1 on the season and officially clinched the North conference.
Property owners' coalition is taking fight against Happy's Inn RV park to state Supreme Court

6 days ago | dailyinterlake.com | Scott Shindledecker

A coalition of property owners in the Thompson Chain of Lakes area is not giving up its fight to stop a developer from building a large RV park in Happy’s Inn. A few months ago, Lincoln County District Judge Matt Cuffe ruled in favor of the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners and Parks Family Real Estate. Parks Family Real Estate and Happy’s RV Park wants to build a 21-acre park which would include 63 recreational vehicle sites and 20 tent sites.