At the Thompson Falls school board meeting on Monday, a longtime educator announced his intent to retire at the end of the school year. Junior high social studies teacher Doug Padden will retire after ...

Ridge Braaten, Zayden Brenner, Anna Brooks, Makenzey Brown, Brylee Burbach, Naomi Finley, Levi Franks, Aspen Glase, Roy Hanson, Nadia Khachaturova, Clara Larsen, Erin ...

The last Plains School board meeting was packed. The lack of certification of the Superintendent, as required by her employment contract and Montana Code Annotated, was a primary topic of conversation ...

HELENA — Montana Legislators are pitching a tightrope of a bill in hopes of closing a loophole for large “unqualified” landowners who benefit from the lower agricultural property tax rate. But to do ...

There are two property tax bills in the legislature that cut two ways. Both HB27 and SB4 will trigger a huge increase in taxes for those who have more than one acre and less than 640 acres. These ...

As the old saying goes, you can’t please everyone all of the time. A few years ago, The Ledger had what would be considered a very conservative columnist. With a Democrat as president, there was ...

Cecilia Arnoux, 42, failure to carry/exhibit proof of insurance in vehicle, 1st offense, $335; operating with expired registration, $75; speeding in a restricted zone, $95. Mark French, 60, speeding ...

It was a chance for the Horsemen to get revenge on their own home court and for a short time it looked as though they would take down the Blue Hawks. But the boys of Thompson Falls were just too much ...

Trumpeter swans take flight near the Clark Fork River.

Appearing for sentencing on Tuesday, Billy James Rich was sentenced to five years with the Department of Corrections, with all of that time suspended, after pleading guilty to strangulation of a ...

The Plains Town Council unanimously passed the first reading of Ordinance #25-1 - "Ordinance Adopting Decency Regulation in Town of Plains" at last Monday's February meeting at City Hall. "The gist of ...

I read Sandy Compton’s article last week with great interest. I certainly don’t agree with what he wrote, but found it interesting that two people can look at the same person and have such completely ...