Jul. 1—A motorist fleeing law enforcement on Saturday night crashed into a parked pickup truck on Kelly Road near Kalispell after Flathead County Sheriff’s Office deputies employed a maneuver designed to make suspects lose control of their vehicles. The suspect, later identified as Derek Bruce Bigman, 34, of Kalispell, later attempted to flee on foot, […]
Jun. 1—A Kalispell woman accused of using a maul ax to break into a home where her husband was staying pleaded not guilty to a felony burglary charge in late May. Sophia Maria Owen, 39, appeared before Judge Heidi Ulbricht for her arraignment in Flathead County District Court on May 23. Ulbricht scheduled an omnibus […]
May 15—Owing to incidents of loitering, trespassing and a general uneasiness since the opening of the nearby Flathead Warming Center in 2021, Michelle Davey said her North Meridian Road employer installed a panic button in the front office earlier this year. “It shouldn’t be that way, that’s not the way it was supposed to be,” […]
May 9—Kalispell Police officers arrested a 38-year-old man late Wednesday night for allegedly attempting to kidnap a 16-year-old boy at a gas station south of town. Aaron Douglas Kupka of Kalispell was booked into the Flathead County Detention Center on a pending felony attempted kidnapping charge and a probation violation. He remained behind bars Thursday […]
Apr. 4—Kalispell City Council moved Monday to review the Flathead Warming Center’s conditional use permit at a forthcoming work session. Councilor Chad Graham requested the measure during discussion of the municipality’s homeless residents at the tail end of Council’s April 1 meeting. Citing conversations with business owners and residents near the North Meridian Road overnight […]
Mar. 29—The man at the center of a disturbance call in Kalispell on Monday allegedly attacked a downstairs tenant with a shovel. Prosecutors brought Kane Kelly Youngquist, 46, up on a single felony count of assault with a weapon following his March 25 arrest. Held in the county jail with bail set at $100,000, he […]
Mar. 25—A man is facing a pending charge of felony attempted homicide following a disturbance involving a weapon call in Kalispell on Monday morning, authorities say. Kalispell Police officers took both the suspect, identified as Kane Youngquist, and victim into custody for questioning after responding to the 300 block of Seventh Avenue West about 9:40 […]
Mar. 24—A pair of former lawmakers are pitching twin residential developments north of Kalispell with an eye toward addressing the Flathead Valley’s well-documented housing crunch. Known as Tronstad Meadows and Whitetail Crossing, the proposed neighborhoods near the intersection of U.S. 93 and Tronstad Road are expected to see about 380 single-family homes go up on […]
Mar. 14—A Kalispell man who allegedly attacked fast food employees and deputies in June pleaded guilty to a single count of felony criminal endangerment in Flathead County District Court last month. Prosecutors initially charged David Michael Miller, 37, with felony criminal mischief and misdemeanor resisting arrest following his June 30 arrest outside of a U.S. […]
Mar. 9—A Kalispell woman is facing felony charges following a pursuit Friday evening that ended with a confrontation with police officers on the east side of Kalispell, authorities said. According to a press release from the Kalispell Police Department, Kari Jeanne Pollack, 49, was arrested and transported to Logan Health Medical Center for treatment of […]
Mar. 5—A jury found a man accused of wounding police during a fight outside of a Kalispell homeless shelter in October guilty of assault on a peace officer late last month. Prosecutors filed the felony charge against Joshua William Myers-Starks, 37, for head-butting and punching a Kalispell Police officer on Oct. 17, leaving the officer […]
Mar. 1—John Steitz and Carol Treadwell Steitz specialize in selling clean, colored merino wool to spinners all over the world. It’s a sustainable way to make a little extra money in their retirement years, but there’s another project at play that the couple gets equally excited to talk about. Their efforts at soil regeneration using […]