MISSOULA, Mont. — Polson Rural Fire responded at 7:45 a.m. on Monday to the report of an RV on fire on Melita Island Road. Fire was pushing through the roof when the firefighters arrived on scene.

'Phoenix Patrol' hopes to raise Melita Island from the ashes of fond memory. KALISPELL (AP) -- A whiff of dry ponderosa or the cool smell off Flathead Lake can trigger the memories for Larry Johnson.

Melita Island smells like a campfire, except near the outhouse, where it doesn’t. The 64-acre island, a mile off shore in waters north of Polson, is shaded by soaring ponderosa pines, its dry soil a ...

Boy Scouts across Montana have reason to celebrate this New Year's Day. On Friday, less than nine hours before the deadline, paperwork was signed for the Boy Scouts of America Montana Council ...

Three children and three grandchildren later, Judy Guenther, 53, and Robert Guenther, 54, are back on Melita Island this weekend as visiting alumni. They are invited guests to what has become an ...

KALISPELL — Additional donations on Friday put the Boy Scouts within $30,000 of buying a Flathead Lake island to use as a camp. An unexpected anonymous $1 million donation last week buoyed the Scouts' ...

The current members of Boy Scout Troop 1933. The group will be celebrating it's 50th anniversary Sunday afternoon. (photo provided) Members of Boy Scout Troop 1933 brave Flathead Lake to visit Melita ...

LAKE COUNTY, Mont. - Lake County Search and Rescue aided four people on a sinking boat on Flathead Lake Sunday just after noon. Search and Rescue officials said they were dispatched a sinking boat ...