Justin Franz

12:15 a.m. Someone called 911 because their elderly neighbor left their walker on their porch. 1:15 a.m. Someone working at Weyerhaeuser pocket dialed 911. There was no emergency. 1:29 a.m. A Kalispell man drunkenly drove through a backyard fence and over a fire pit before parking and walking into the house. The owner of the […]

12:11 a.m. Someone called 911 to see if they could get a lift home. 5 a.m. Someone at Kalispell Regional Healthcare got a phone call warning them that they needed to lock down the hospital because of an ongoing law enforcement situation outside. Turns out the situation was outside of a hospital in M…

The Flathead Beacon is a weekly print and daily online news source serving Western Montana’s Flathead Valley.

The Flathead Beacon is a weekly print and daily online news source serving Western Montana’s Flathead Valley.

The Flathead Beacon is a weekly print and daily online news source serving Western Montana’s Flathead Valley.

When Melissa Mangold became executive chef at Latitude 48 last year, one of her first orders was to take down the window decal that proclaimed the Whitefish eatery to be a “Mediterranean” restaurant. That’s not to say that Mangold and her crew can’t make you a nice bowl of pasta or some great hummus — […]

On June 21, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed a button in the White House that triggered an explosion some 2,000 miles away, deep beneath the Salish Mountains in Northwest Montana. The incident wasn’t a military exercise gone wrong, but rather a ceremony to celebrate the physical opening of Flathead Tunnel, a 7.01-mile bore deep […]

The Flathead Beacon is a weekly print and daily online news source serving Western Montana’s Flathead Valley.

The Flathead Beacon is a weekly print and daily online news source serving Western Montana’s Flathead Valley.

The Flathead Beacon is a weekly print and daily online news source serving Western Montana’s Flathead Valley.