Filing closed March 4 for county offices. Multiple county positions are on the 2026 ballot, including a commission seat, sheriff, county attorney, clerk and recorder and treasurer. The primary is ...

Jeremiah Gideon appeared in district court on March 5 for an update on his 2024 attempted deliberate homicide case. He was scheduled to go to trial on March 9, but that has been continued as the ...

Charlotte Andrade had a status hearing in district court March 4 for her deliberate homicide case. She reportedly terminated her private attorney and Judge David Grubich asked the Montana Office of ...

Winco Winco submitted for a building permit for 301 N.W. Bypass, according to the city planning office. The company submitted the paperwork on Feb. 25. Business Bites: Chik-fil-A files traffic study, ...

The Great Falls Public Schools board unanimously approved a $1,299,400 contract with Jimmy's Roofing during their Feb. 23 meeting for a roof replacement at Lewis and Clark Elementary. CTA Architects ...

Cascade County is planning to interview three candidates for health officer next week. During the March 4 health board meeting, County Commissioner Joe Briggs thanked the board for reviewing and ...

Air Force Global Strike Command conducted a test launch of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with two test re-entry vehicles at 11:01 p.m. Pacific Time on March 3 ...

Terry Graeter was sentenced March 4 in district court on an arson case. Under a plea agreement, Graeter entered a guilty plea in January to felony arson for an August 2025 fire at Ace Hardware store ...

The local 911 dispatch system went down for several hours in the early hours of March 3. The outage was due to maintenance on a fiber optic line that apparently caused a multi-county outage for cell ...

Two juveniles associated with local gang activity were in Judge John Parker's court 3. Geronimo Standinghorn is facing several pending misdemeanor charges. Standinghorn, 14, also has a pending felony ...

Jeremy Virts has been named the new Great Falls Fire Rescue chief, effective immediately. Virts succeeds former chief Jeremy Jones, who assumed the role of deputy city manager in October. Virts began ...

March is Youth Art Month and Great Falls Public Schools students are celebrating music, art and theater with a packed schedule of events. Dusty Molyneaux, GFPS' fine arts supervisor, told the school ...