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Multiple fires crop up along Montana 200
Active fire weather sparked up a new blaze near Paradise over the weekend.
Thompson Falls homicide suspect enters 'not guilty' plea
Danielle Jeanette Wood appeared by video before District Court Judge Deborah “Kim” Christopher at the Sanders County Courthouse in Thompson Falls on Tuesday, A…
Noxon's Stogner receives Navy Cross Medal
James Stogner of Noxon received the prestigious Navy Cross Medal during a special ceremony Friday afternoon, April 5 at the VFW in Polson.
Woman arrested, charged with murder of Thompson Falls man
The Sanders County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday announced the arrest of a Polson woman charged with the murder of Matthew George LaFriniere of Thompson Falls, who was killed nearly one year ago.
Pickup struck my BNSF train west of Cyr Exit off I-90
A pickup truck was struck by a train just west of the Cyr Exit on Tuesday morning, Feb. 19. The incident occurred around 9:30 a.m. at the railroad crossing off…
Blackfoot voice & data communications in western Sanders County restored
Blackfoot Telecommunications crews worked throughout the day New Year’s Eve to lay a ground-based cable restoring voice and data communications after a two-day outage to western Sanders County.
Damage to Blackfoot line causes communications outage in western Sanders County
A large team of specialists, including cable and fiber-optic technicians and engineers, was assembling along the Clark Fork River on New Year’s Eve to solve a major communications disruption in Thompson Falls and w…
Trout Creek man jailed after lengthy standoff
A team effort by Northwest Montana law enforcement agencies helped put a suspect in a Trout Creek shooting incident behind bars Friday.
Man fires gunshots in Trout Creek
At approximately 5:35 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 14, Sanders County Sheriff’s Office dispatch received a call that a male subject was attempting to start a fire at the Lakeside Motel in Trout Creek. The male had also …
Supporting Hot Springs & Plains teams
Sanders County was a hotbed of high school sports activity late last week. The Hot Springs Savage Heat defeated Denton-Geyser-Stanford 49-24 in the first round…
New Sanders County blaze under investigation
A new wildfire sparked Thursday, Aug. 30, approximately 10 miles northeast of Hot Springs in Sanders County, according to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Division of Fire.
Weeksville Fire spreading
A trailer house is on fire Friday afternoon at Highway 200 in Weeksville. The fire is at approximately mile marker 67. There are reports that a propane tank has exploded and is spreading northbound up the hill, acc…
Hot Springs fire triples in size overnight
The Garden Creek Fire burning on tribal land near Hot Springs took a drastic turn Tuesday night, growing from 500 acres to nearly 1,800 acres, making it the largest fire in the state so far this season.
Stage I fire restrictions in Sanders County
Late Thursday afternoon, Aug. 2, the Sanders County Board of Commissioners adopted a resolution stating that Stage I fire restrictions be in place on all land in the county, effective at 1 a.m. Friday, Aug. 3. The …
Garden Creek Fire grows to 500 acres
The Garden Creek Fire, burning on the Flathead Reservation about 2 miles north of Hot Springs, made a run Friday, Aug. 3, expanding to a total of 500 acres by …
River erosion puts Plains wastewater ponds at risk
A Declaration of Emergency was issued May 3 as the banks of the Clark Fork River behind the wastewater treatment lagoons in Plains began to cut away due to rec…