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Building a survival fire takes more than combustion, fuel and oxygen. It also takes a heavy dose of patience and preparation before the fire is even ready to be lit. That was the primary message of...

Melissa Evans wasn't sure what kind of response she'd get when she offered a "beginning tumbling" class to youngsters in the west end of Sanders County. That was about six weeks ago. Soon after she an...

A windstorm back in March blew down a lot of lodgepoles on Frank LaMotte's Trout Creek property. This fall he wanted to clear the downed whips off his land, so he hired a commercial logger with a...

Okay, so this pup may not be a Picasso yet, but he's probably the only dog in Sanders County who can paint almost inside the lines. His name is Dakota, and he's an Australian Cattle Dog who belongs...

To most of us, "The Grange" conjures up movie images of a modest rural building with wholesome country dances, moonshine in the parking lot and neighborhood meetings where farmers and ranchers battle...

Myrtle is a snowbird who flees the frigid Montana air each fall and spends her winter in Sue Hechtman's laundry room. Each spring, when the sun warms up the back yard of Hechtman's Thompson Falls home...

"You just got back from WHERE?" The Missoula airport parking lot attendant was incredulous. "Antarctica," I replied, handing him payment for my long-term parking ticket. "Isn't it cold enough for you...

The saying, "Good fences make good neighbors" has new meaning for Frank Owens and Leta Behmerwohld, Trout Creek residents whose properties border the northwest side of Trout Creek Park. Thanks to the...

Anna Pallister is getting an early start on a career in community service. As a seventh-grader, she's the youngest to ever be chosen to serve on Montana Governor Bullock's Youth Leadership Council,...