St. Regis boys No. 1 seed for 14C tourney

The results are in, and the St. Regis boys are the basketball winners.

County kids receive free vaccinations

Bison range to celebrate migratory birds

MOIESE - Celebrate International Migratory Bird Day 2014 at the National Bison Range on Saturday, May 10, 2014. This year’s theme, “Why Birds Matter”, focuses on the benefits of birds to humans and nature. We will share the many ways in which birds matter to the earth, to ecosystems, and of course, to us.

Fate of Mineral County Detention Center in limbo

Mineral County officials are currently deciding whether or not to close the Detention Center, which closed temporarily in early February, due to a detention officer shortage. Staff shortages caused a previous closure in 2017.

Community Notes

From “The Thing About Jellyfish” to “Call of the Osprey”; from “The Bear and the Piano” to “Feathers: Not Just For Flying” — these are just a few of the new children’s books available at the Mineral County Library thanks to a Children’s Book Project grant award from the Pilcrow Foundation.

Noxon bridge assessed for repairs

Bridges are divided into three parts. The deck, which is the part driven on. A super-structure, which holds the deck up, and then a sub-structure which takes the load from the super-structure and transfers it into the ground which is the foundation.

An update from the House

Weekly Update House District 14

Hunter and bowhunter education classes offered

Hunter and bowhunter education classes are scheduled for west-central Montana communities this year

RSVP offers child safety files

The Department of Justice reported in 2002 that nearly 800,000 children are reported missing each year. The average victim of abduction is an 11 year old girl who is a “low risk”, “normal” child from a middle class neighborhood. 300,000 children end up being sexually exploited in the fastest growing crime in the world-child trafficking. Child trafficking is the 2nd largest crime, second only to the sale of illegal drugs.

Mineral County Sheriff's Office calls

Mineral County Sheriff's Office calls

Thompson Falls to host blood donor drive

Emergency blood shortage persists as patient needs continue over holiday season.

Community Calendar

Community Calendar

Montana Viewpoint: A rainy night in Georgia

The point of the 253 bills that have been introduced by Republicans in 43 states is to make it more difficult...

Support hemp legalization

Call MT USA Representative Denny Rehberg today — requesting a YES VOTE on the bill [HR1009] federally legalizing cultivation of Industrial hemp in the USA changing jurisdiction from the DEA to the Department of Agriculture.

Valley Press and Independent introduce new digital access model

As the publisher of your community newspapers, I am partly in the business of reporting on change, and nothing has changed more than the news business in the past two decades.

Whitefish hosts Sanders County track athletes

WHITEFISH - Over the weekend track and field athletes from Plains, Thompson Falls and Hot Springs traveled north to Whitefish to take part in the Whitefish ARM Invitational meet last Saturday.

Legals for August, 10 2022

Six elk killed by freight train passing through Mineral County

Six elk were killed early Monday morning, March 25 by a BNSF Railway freight train where Cedar Creek meets Diamond Road.

Trio of Superior wrestlers undefeated at Mission Invite

Superior wrestling coach Charlie Crabb is a modest man of few words.