Plains Superintendent Ryan Rettig speaks at his first school board meeting last week. (Tracy Scott/Valley Press) Plains School Board Chair Colleen McCarthy discusses a co-op partnership with the Hot ...

More than 30 people from across the Northwest gathered last weekend for the second annual Clark Fork Carving Stampede at the Sanders County Fairgrounds.

Locally grown produce harvested by the newly opened Scenic Valley Farm Market. (Tracy Scott/Valley Press) The Moose Pattie and root beer from the newly opened Scenic Valley Farm Market in Plains.

Wrestling has been taking Weston Block places this summer, courtesy of the AAU Scholastic Duals program. A rising junior at Thompson Falls and already a two-time State B-C medal winner for the Blue ...

PUBLISHED IN THE MINERAL INDEPENDENT ON JULY 8TH, 15TH, 22ND, 29TH, AND AUGUST 5TH 2026 MNAXLP __________________________ Legal Notice The Town of Plains is inviting public comments on a floodplain ...

Following last year's powerful windstorms that toppled trees across western Montana and northern Idaho, the Forest Service is moving quickly to address damaged forests with a proposed emergency ...

Before sunrise Saturday, concrete trucks were already rolling out of Missoula, headed for Big Sky Forest Products in St. Regis with the first loads of what will become the foundation of the company's ...

More than 300 off-road enthusiasts from across the country rolled into the Haugan-DeBorgia area last weekend, and if their smiles were any indication, Montana made a memorable first impression.

If there was one place to be this weekend, it was along the banks of the Clark Fork River where families, competitors and spectators gathered for the River Street Festival and the Great Montana SUP ...