Runners help cancer patients 'Fuel The Fight'

Colorful balloons representing different types of cancer adorned the finish line at Frenchtown Pond State Park on Sept. 30 at the second annual Fuel the Fight 5K and 1 Mile Fun Run. The event is a fundraiser to provide pre-paid fuel cards to help cancer patients in rural communities around Missoula off-set the costs of traveling to and from their treatments.

Energy Partners in Superior under new management

Energy Partners in Superior has a new general manager, Garth Riebe. He stepped in after long-time manager Kirby Smith left Energy Partners to pursue other opportunities. Kirby had been with the company for over 30 years and the transition is a big one, Riebe said.

County works to attract guards to re-open jail facility

Following a failed attempt to reopen the Mineral County Jail with a private company last month, county officials met July 12 to brainstorm ideas to market the vacant detention officer positions.

Superior/Alberton Tennis cancelled due to rain

RONAN - When it rains, it pours.

Three-phase power becoming closer to reality for airport area

Superior working to build new pool

Ambition and determination, when focused in a positive way and coupled with community support, can often overcome challenging obstacles.

Alberton Student Spotlight: Jordan Taapken

Name: Jordan Taapken

Mineral County spared from major floods

Mineral County has been spared this year from any real big flooding said Missoula National Weather Service hydrologist Ray Nicolas.

New undersheriff selected

After nearly a month in office, Sheriff Ernie Ornelas now has a new undersheriff. Deputy Mike Boone was selected as the new undersheriff by the board that Ornelas convened.

Everetta Ellen Proctor

Everetta Ellen Walls was born in Missoula on September 22, 1910. She passed away March 15, 2010, in Plains. She was the oldest child of Everett Walls and Clara Price Walls. The family lived for several years in a cabin in the Trout Creek area near Superior.

Wayne Curtis Sorenson

Wayne Curtis Sorenson passed away at Hillside Manor Hospice Center in Missoula, Montana on April 2nd 2011, of lung cancer.  He was 55 years old.  He was preceded in death by his mother, Edith Frances “Terri” Sorenson.

Dorothy Joan Levina (Vacura) Noll

Dorothy Joan Levina (Vacura) Noll (1926 – 2013)

Officials prepare for coming wildfire season

If the Clark Fork River hasn’t flooded by the first part of June, area residents can usually breath easier.

Blood donors eligible for $1,000 gift cards

With no substitute for blood and no way to manufacture it, volunteer donors are essential for hospital patients in need of transfusions...

Alberton woman's revelation leads to clothes closet

On a drive into Missoula one day, Alberton resident Betsi Wood Baker glanced back at her vehicle loaded with bags of clothing needed to be donated and had a revelation.

Longtime Clark Fork Coalition leader retiring

The Clark Fork Coalition is headquartered in Missoula, but their entire mission is dedicated to protecting and restoring the Clark Fork River basin. That includes Mineral County and Sanders County to where the river joins the Flathead River at Paradise.

Wild winds challenge Mack Days anglers

Big, whopping, unrelenting wind hit Flathead Lake over the eighth week of 2022 Fall Mack Days.

Norman Keith “Pete” Balison, 94

Norman Keith “Pete” Balison, 94, a logger, miner, and dreamer ended his journey on this Earth after a losing battle with Covid.

Beloved former Plains resident perishes in fishing accident

A beloved former Plains resident drowned in Lower Thompson Lake in a fishing accident Monday.

Dale Miller

Dale “Butch” Miller