City Commissioners will consider Tuesday whether to subdivide a 2.22 acre parcel at the corner of Central Avenue West and Bay Drive into what’s being called Buffalo Crossing. The property is zoned M-2 mixed-use transitional and there is no proposed zone change with the subdivision request. Two structures are currently on the property. One is the brick barrel building just
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Alaska Airlines will begin serving Great Falls with an Embraer 175 jet on July 19. The change makes Alaska Airlines the only first class cabin option on western hub flights from Great Falls, according to the Great Falls International Airport. Great Falls airport launches new tourism website, hosting TSA pre-check event Alaska Airlines resumes two daily flights on April 2
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Commissioners will consider awarding a $3.28 million contract to Central Excavation during Tuesday’s meeting for the next phase of the 18th Street storm drain improvements. The project is for work from 4th Avenue South to 8th Avenue South and 11th Avenue South to 15th Alley South, contingent on Montana Department of Environmental Quality concurrence. Staff is recommending approval of the
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Two town halls are planned for information about the upcoming park district vote. The first is March 27 at 5:30 p.m. and the second is April 26 at 5:30 p.m. Both are in the Missouri Room at the Civic Center, 2 Park Dr. S. The city has proposed a special park district assessment that as proposed would generate $1.5 million
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City staff is recommending that the City Commission adopt a resolution repealing a 2014 resolution that allowed for the re-establishment and expansion of a casino at 1905 4th St. N.E. The 2014 resolution allowed MRO, Inc. to rebuild a casino on the site where the River City Casino had previously existed as a non-conforming Type-1 casino until it was demolished
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Allete Clean Energy is building an 80 megawatt wind farm near Geyser under a 15-year power purchase agreement with NorthWestern Energy. Allete acquired the South Peak project from Peak Clean Energy and expects to bring it online by late 2019. The project will feature GE wind turbines, combined with 15-year servicing agreement with General Electric, according to a company release.
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Updated: As of March 20, no judge had accepted the case and no hearings have been scheduled. Judge Elizabeth Best officially recused herself this afternoon from the lawsuit filed against Cascade County over zoning board appointments. Judge Greg Pinski has declined to hear the case, according to court clerks. Judge John Kutzman and Judge John Parker have also declined the
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The city is revising the annual action plan for the Community Development Block Grant program and the public comment period is open through April 6. The plan was published in October and as revised, the amended plan is part of the consolidated plan for the city’s CDBG program for fiscal years 2015-2019. The proposed amendments would remove projects from the
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An expanded dental clinic and a new dentist are coming to the Community Health Care Center. The county is leasing a space in the Machinery Row building at 202 2nd Ave. S. and it’s currently being renovated. The contract for the new dentist is on Tuesday’s County Commission agenda. Mark McCarthy was going to start in May, but is able
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Two inmates at the Cascade County Detention Center died on March 10, according to a release from Sheriff Bob Edwards. These were two separate incidents and roughly four hours apart, Edwards said. One of the deaths is consistent with a suicide and the other appears to be from natural causes. Both were pronounced dead at Benefis Hospital. The Montana State
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