Latest Whitefish Podcast Episodes
Held v. Montana — with Guest Host Kellyn Brown
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - June 09, 2023 11:02 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn June 12, the lawsuit Held v. State of Montana will go to trial in Helena's district court. In the lawsuit, brought by 16 youth plaintiffs from across Montana, allege that Montana, through its executive agencies, has knowingly approved projects and implemented policies that support a fossil-f...
Big Sky City Lights
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - May 05, 2023 09:30 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsNorthwest Montana has produced its fair share of singers and songwriters, including the indie-folk duo Big Sky City Lights, made up of Whitefish's Nick Spear and New York City's Susan O'Dea. The two met more than a decade ago, and during the pandemic began remotely writing and recording together...
Schoolhouse Votes with Denali Sagner
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - April 21, 2023 09:02 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSpring isn't normally thought of as election season, but in the education world it is. May 2 is election day for municipal elections in the Flathead Valley, including school board and school levy elections in Kalispell, Columbia Falls, Whitefish and several other districts around the valley. Fla...
Montana's Constitution and the 68th Legislature: Observations with Lee Banville
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - April 07, 2023 09:31 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSince the Montana constitution was crafted in 1972, there have only been 34 changes made to the state’s governing document, a rate of less than one per year. However over the last three months of the 68th legislative session, Montana Republicans have introduced a record 67 constitutional amendme...
Rationing Recreation Access with Dr. Will Rice
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - March 31, 2023 09:50 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsAt 8 a.m. on March 15, Glacier National Park’s advance online reservation window opened to a groundswell of prospective backpackers eager to nab a prized wilderness campground permit. Within 10 minutes, however, the park’s most coveted campsites had filled, and the reservation window slammed shu...
The Next Chapter
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - March 24, 2023 11:05 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn May 23, 2007, with the newspaper industry in steep decline, the Flathead Valley awoke to an unlikely new resident: a 24-page tabloid called the Flathead Beacon. The weekly paper, owned by television personality and part-time Bigfork resident Maury Povich, has produced 823 issues over the last...
The Party Faithful
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - March 03, 2023 12:05 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsRepublican Mark Racicot served as the 21st governor of Montana from 1993 to 2001 who then went on to lead the Republican National Committee and serve as chair of George W. Bush's reelection campaign in 2004. In recent years, however, Racicot has emerged as a vocal critic of the Republican Party'...
Montana Legislature January Update
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - February 03, 2023 12:06 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThe 68th Montana legislature is in session planning out the budget for the next biennium and working to move of bills through the house and senate chambers each week. Today is the 25th day of this legislative cycle, with the session wrapping up at the beginning of May. Flathead Beacon reporters...
2022 Election Preview with Tristan Scott
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - November 04, 2022 11:08 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn November 8, citizens across America will cast their ballots for local, state and national elections, except for those who have already voted by mail. In Flathead County, more than 22,000 voters have already submitted their ballots. Flathead Beacon managing editor Tristan Scott joined host Mic...
A Quiet Park
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - September 10, 2022 02:31 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn July, the nonprofit Quiet Parks International (QPI) acknowledged Glacier National Park with its Wilderness Quiet Park award, the first of its kind in North America. The award "reinforces the natural sounds educational efforts the park makes to distinguish the natural soundscape from noise, an...
Bloody Mary: A Blessing and a Curse with Mike Kordenbrock and Hunter D'Antuono
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - August 19, 2022 11:05 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis week the Flathead Beacon published its annual Drinks Edition, where instead of a single in depth feature article, the staff brought together a package of thematically linked stories about various things that can be consumed via straw, glass or mug. Certainly the most striking piece was the ...
Tales from Glacier's Backcountry with Pete Heyboer and Colton Born
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - August 05, 2022 11:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThe weekend of July 22, three fatalities occurred in Glacier National Park. Two fatalities were 67-year-old Brian Kennedy and 67-year-old Jack Beard, who died in a climbing accident on Dusty Star Mountain. Both were long time climbers, adventurers and members of the Glacier Mountaineering Societ...
A Brewery Born Again with Jeremiah Johnson
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - July 22, 2022 11:05 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings"It has been in our hearts since we started that something would come to fruition in the Flathead, so it seems wild that everything fell together the way it did." ~Jeremiah Johnson Two and a half years ago, the Flathead Valley’s oldest craft beer establishment in downtown Whitefish closed its d...
Swinging Into Summer with Flathead Living Editor Justin Franz
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - July 08, 2022 11:05 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSummer is in full swing now that we’ve passed the Fourth of July holidays, and with that comes hordes of tourists, great weather for spending time on the lakes or hiking to a new mountaintop, and of course, the summer issue of Flathead Living Magazine. The new issue of the magazine hit stands J...
Twinterns: Part 2 with reporter Denali Sagner
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - June 17, 2022 11:05 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsTemperatures are climbing back to a summer-like range after historic levels of rain and several inches of snow in the mountains earlier this week. With that summer feeling, host Micah Drew brings you the second part of our Meet the Intern series. Denali Sagner hit the ground running last wee...
Twinterns: Part 1 with photojournalist Sarah Mosquera
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - June 03, 2022 11:05 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIt’s the first week of June which means summer is fast approaching, and to steal a phrase from Flathead Beacon managing editor Tristan Scott, :The best sign in the Zodiac is alighting on the horizon… Internicus." This summer, the Beacon’s editorial team will be welcoming Twinterns, with both a ...
Return of the Buffalo
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - May 27, 2022 11:05 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn 2020, legislation to return an 18,524-acre parcel of land in the middle of the Flathead Indian Reservation to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) was signed into law. Just over a year later, the Bison Range, along with the herd of 455 buffalo, returned to tribal management afte...
County at a Crossroads
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - May 13, 2022 11:05 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThe old Flathead County Courthouse is the most iconic building in Kalispell, if for no other reason than everyone passing through the center of town has to drive in a circle around it. The courthouse building was constructed in 1905, and originally was built with an odd feature: the prominent c...
Running the Roads with Pro Runners Makena Morley and Jenn Lichter
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - May 06, 2022 11:04 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHost Micah spend last weekend in Spokane Washington, where the Bloomsday run was returning to the streets after two years off due to the pandemic. Bloomsday, a 7.4 mile road race, is one of the largest events in the country, averaging more than 40,000 runners in pre-pandemic years. In additi...
Primary Colors with Managing Editor Tristan Scott
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - April 29, 2022 11:05 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIt’s an even numbered year this year, which means the election season in the fall will feature 435 races for the U.S. House of Representatives. Unique this year is that our state will play host to two different Congressional races, as Montana gained a U.S. House seat following the 2020 census. T...
Confessions of a Serial Songwriter with Izaak Opatz
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - April 22, 2022 11:03 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis week the Flathead Beacon's annual music issue hit the stands. The featured stories focused on musical threads from a guide to Montana’s summer concerts and festivals to musician profiles to looking at Flathead high school’s new marching band uniforms. One profile, Confessions of a Serial So...
The Spaces Between with FWP's Jim Williams
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - April 15, 2022 11:02 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsListening note: There were some technical difficulties near the middle of the show, so forgive the clipped audio transition. "I realized really quickly that a mountain lion, the issues and the fear about them was a surrogate for human coexistence. That's where it was at. The science is fun and...
Best of Preps: Photons and Prisms
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - March 25, 2022 11:05 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThree times a year, reporter and podcast host Micah Drew teams up with media director and photographer Hunter D'Antuono to produce the Best of Preps issue of the Beacon. The issue identifies some of the top athlete's from across the Flathead Valley and combines short vignettes about their accola...
Making 'Ted K'
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - March 18, 2022 11:05 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsTed Kacynski, known as the Unabomber, brought a lot of attention to the small town of Lincoln Montana during his high profile arrest in 1996 following a spree of bombings. Several documentaries, TV movies and shows have been inspired by Kazynski, but the latest film, 'Ted K', which had its North...
The Sentencing of Matt Marshall
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - March 11, 2022 16:42 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsFlathead Beacon Managing Editor Tristan Scott was in Missoula last week reporting on the sentencing of Matt Marshall, the CEO of Whitefish securities firm Amyntor Group, who conned venture capitalist Michael Goguen out of millions of dollars. Marshall pretended to be a former CIA agent engaged i...
Springtime Flathead Living... Behind the Scenes with Justin Franz
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - March 04, 2022 12:05 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsJustin Franz, former Flathead Beacon intern, whose old desk host Micah now stands at, took over as editor of Flathead Living for the winter issue. He’s been in the Beacon office all week scribbling on printed pages, working with designers and overall haranguing staffers over their work. Franz ...
The Rippling Effects of Flathead's High Housing Costs
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - February 25, 2022 12:05 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratings"There’s so many things in our society that have gotten homogenized. We eat the same French Fries, we drink the same Starbucks coffee exactly the same. We’re even starting to talk the same as you go to different parts of the country but housing is totally unique. The prices are different, the ta...
A New Wave Goodbye
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - February 18, 2022 12:05 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsResidents of the Flathead Valley have been treated to a decade of live New Wave 80s cover music performed on the regular by the band New Wave Time Trippers. Earlier this month, the band played their last public show in Whitefish as part of the festivities for this year’s Winter Carnival parade, ...
Programming Note
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - February 16, 2022 12:03 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsJust dropping by to let you know that starting this week, the Flathead Beacon Podcast will come out on Friday mornings. That just means you have an extra two days to read the print issue of the Flathead Beacon, on stands today, and as always, keep up to date on the latest news from Northwest M...
Mountain Gateway Development
Flathead Beacon Podcasts - February 09, 2022 12:05 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThe intersection of Big Mountain Road and East Lakeshore drive north of Whitefish has long been a staple in conversations about the city’s future. The intersection takes locals and visitors too and from Whitefish mountain Resort, and during ski season, the single blinking light often backs up tr...