Great Falls Fire Rescue said that the cause of the Oct. 5 fire that killed one person was started by smoking near portable oxygen. The fire started around 2 a.m. in a third-floor apartment of Building ...

Following the wind storm on Oct. 4, the city is continuing its clean up effort. Due to the wind, tree branches and debris were scattered across the city. City staff spent the weekend working to locate ...

Willow Creek Road, in Belt, will be closed for repairs this week. The road has had two recent slides and currently, about 2.98 miles up the road, on Dawson Hill, the southbound lane is unsafe for ...

Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters sentenced to 9 years behind bars The New York Times: Why Helene was so destructive in Florida, the Carolinas and Appalachia The Economist: Hurricane Helene was Ame ...

An apartment fire killed one person and displaced about a dozen more in the early hours of Oct. 5. Great Falls Fire Rescue was dispatched around 2 a.m. to a structure fire at 1701 20th St. S., which ...

The Montana Supreme Court upheld a district court opinion in late August in the homicide case against Branden Miesmer. Miesmer was charged in 2015 with deliberate homicide after injecting ...

Great Falls High and C.M. Russell High boys tied 1-1 in their crosstown soccer match on Oct. 1 at Memorial Stadium. Matt Ehnes of Jared’s Detours was there to photograph the game for The Electric. CMR ...

Neighborhood Council 1 meets at 7 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Meadowlark Elementary School library. Agenda items include follow up on traffic concerns and neighborhood concerns. More information on NC1, ...

Cascade County Commissioners approved a $52,500 settlement during an Oct. 4 special meeting over a complaint of discrimination in the election administrator hiring process. In December, commissioners ...

Lawrence Brasda was charged in district court for a weekend car chase. He bonded out of jail on a $20,000 and was expected to show up for his initial appearance on Sept. 30 in district court. Brasda ...