Flathead Beacon

10/18/2025

Our 2025 Glacier National Park posters are here!

Featuring stunning illustrations of iconic sights like Red Jammer Bus, Chief Mountain, and Swiftcurrent Bears, these high-quality prints make the perfect gift for nature lovers this year!

Explore the collection now at glaciernationalparkprints.com and bring the beauty of Glacier home.

https://glaciernationalparkprints.com/

️

10/17/2025

Four local teams will have home-field advantage this weekend as they look to advance to the next round of the state playoff tournament.

From calculators to computers to smart phones, the education field often lies on the front lines of technological innovations, trying to marry teaching students critical skills, along with how to use new tools responsibly.

10/17/2025

How heavy music is transforming lives in the Blackfeet Nation.

A junior at Browning High School, Reb Po***ck has had an experience unlike most other high schoolers — or adults for that matter. She’s designed t-shirts for two of her music idols, the world-renowned Old Norse-rooted Wardruna and the Norwegian black-metal Old Man’s Child. This past summer, sh...

10/17/2025

In the Lone Peak Big Horns, Columbia Falls head coach O'Brien Byrd sees a team with an offense revolving around counter attacks.

Heading into the start of summer workouts for the 2025 season, Columbia Falls boys soccer head coach O’Brien Byrd had come to the reasonable conclusion that his team would be in a rebuilding year. With nine starters from the 2024 season having graduated, and two returning starters moving over to n...

10/16/2025

A group of 22 plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit over three environmental executive orders, alleging violations to their constitutional rights.

From calculators to computers to smart phones, the education field often lies on the front lines of technological innovations, trying to marry teaching students critical skills, along with how to use new tools responsibly.

10/16/2025

Half the council’s seats are on the ballot this year, along with the mayor.

Four candidates are running for three vacant seats on the Columbia Falls city council, setting up a competitive council race between one incumbent and several newcomers.

10/16/2025

The team is undefeated at 10-0-2 and has accumulated a goal differential of 71-3 on the year.

As the Columbia Falls girls soccer team prepares for its home Montana Class A quarterfinal match against defending state champions Billings Central this Saturday, head coach Thomas Clark says his players are excited for the matchup. The seniors on the team have only ever lost playoff games to the ev...

10/15/2025

Featuring country star Drake Milligan, the benefit concert is Flathead Food Bank’s biggest push to distribute 1.8 million pounds of food annually.

As the cost of living continues to soar across western Montana, the Flathead Food Bank is turning up the volume.  On November 13, the food bank is hosting its fourth annual “Feed the Need” Benefit Concert in collaboration with Kalispell Toyota. Using a “pay what you can” model, the concert ...

10/15/2025

The guidelines on how to integrate AI into education were developed by OPI and the Frontier Learning Lab at the Montana Digital Academy.

From calculators to computers to smart phones, the education field often lies on the front lines of technological innovations, trying to marry teaching students critical skills, along with how to use new tools responsibly.

10/15/2025

As Big Mountain Ciderworks marks its five-year anniversary in the Flathead Valley, it maintains close ties to its primitive roots.

Even in the stone ages, our ancestors realized that anything containing sugar could be reliably transformed through fermentation into an alcoholic elixir. Take, for example, the beautiful simplicity of cider: squeeze, then wait. The ease and simplicity of cider has led most historians to believe tha...

10/15/2025

Flathead County officials say the public safety bond would double capacity and enhance safety at a new location in south Kalispell; ballots for the general election will be sent out Oct. 17.

Nearly a decade after new justice center plans began evolving in Flathead County, voters this general election on Nov. 4 will decide on a $105 million jail bond that would double the current inmate capacity of the detention center and relocate the facility to south Kalispell. The new public safety f...

10/14/2025

The road in Glacier National Park is now closed for the season from the westside at Avalanche; length of east side closure will depend on the weather.

Glacier National Park officials closed part of the alpine section of the Going-to-the-Sun Road for the season on Tuesday afternoon with snow and icy conditions blanketing Logan Pass. Visitors can still drive from the West Entrance to Avalanche Creek, or on the east side from St. Mary to Rising Sun.....