The City of Thompson Falls has hit the pause button on water and sewer charges for vacant lots in the city. At a brief ...

Work to repair the Clark Fork River bridge west of Thompson Falls will begin the week of April 13, the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT )announced. Joan Redeen with MDT said the project will ...

Thompson Pass is officially open following work to repair a bridge that was damaged during December flooding. The bridge ...

Eighty children from Plains School received a free dental checkup from local dental specialists last week for the annual "Sealants for Smiles" program. Two Plains dentists from MT West Dentist and two ...

I received an email a few weeks ago with someone claiming the antimony mine outside Thompson Falls had been sold to an Australian company. Then a few days later, a family member was having coffee and ...

There were only two Plains alumni at the annual "Forever Young Prom Dance" at Plains School last week, where the gymnasium was turned into a dance floor decorated with flowers and pages from old ...

The Montana Fish & Game Department planted 54 elk in the Deer Lodge district and 25 near Thompson Falls in the last month. Ninety-one Montana antelope were trapped and sent to other states to ...

SOLUTIONS ACROSS 1. EASE 5. EMBALM 11. APPRECIATION 14. REUNION 15. EASIER 18. SEERS 19. OSPREY 21. EPI 23. AGEE 24. EDDAS 28. SODA 29. MC 30. EGOS ...

Blackfoot Communications board members representing Sanders County include (from left) Tom Eggensperger of Thompson Falls, Candy Faroni of Dixon and Erika Lawyer of Plains. Lawyer was appointed to the ...

We caught the plague in March and my ability to concentrate on the written word disappeared. Then we decided to watch the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) movies because our kids hadn’t seen them, which led ...

Ah Spring, when a young man’s thoughts turn to… bugs? Well, I’m not a young man, but my thoughts are on a certain bug. Last spring, around late April, I noticed a distinct discoloration in a pasture ...

The GFWC Thompson Falls Woman’s Club finished their seventh month of Pinochle play with Nancy Gressang and Pat Ingraham earning the first 1500 trump and taking the monthly high score with 7,020 points ...