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MISSOULA, Mont. — No injuries were reported after a 14-foot jet boat sank in the Kootenai River just below Kootenai Falls. All occupants on board were not injured and everyone made it out of the river ...

Oct. 4—The first weekend of fall saw kayakers from northwest Montana, Idaho and several other western states running the whitewater of the Kootenai River falls. The adventuresome boaters shared the ...

Staring down at it from a swinging bridge last weekend, that was obvious. It was big and loud, gnawing away at the gorge it blasts through on its way to Idaho. I looked at the river’s soft spots and ...