The Pacific Steel and Recycling Trailside Dog Park will be closed from 6 a.m. to noon July 28 for turf preventative measures. The park will reopen at noon. For questions, contact Lonnie Dalke, parks manager, at 771-1265.
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The B-17 Flying Fortress ‘Sentimental Journey’ is in Great Falls this week from the Commemorative Air Force and Airbase Arizona Flying Museum. B-17s were flown in Montana during World War II by four bombardment groups out of the Great Falls Army Air Base, Lewistown, Cut Bank and Glasgow. The B-17 landed in Great Falls on July 26 and ground tours
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Updated: 2:25 p.m. July 26 The Harris Mountain Fire is now 11,890 acres and burning about southeast of Cascade with 159 personnel assigned. At 5:45 p.m., the Cascade County Disaster and Emergency Services office said that the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office had issued a mandatory evacuation for all residents on Adel Road and Whitmore. “You are in imminent danger of
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The Montana Department of Transportation is conducting a public open house Aug. 5 from 4-6:30 p.m. to discuss the final phase of the Belt North and South project at Armington Junction. The open house will be at the Belt Public School at 1 Church Street. The event will be an open house format, and the public is encouraged to attend
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The Harris Mountain Fire, near the Town of Cascade was started by lighting according to the Montana Department of Natural Resources on July 23 and since then has grown to 3,623 acres with 152 personnel assigned. 10 p.m. update: The Cascade County Sheriff’s Office has issued a mandatory evacuation for all residents on Adel Road due to the lack of
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Happy weekend Great Falls. Associated Press: U.S. churches reckon with traumatic legacy of Native schools The New York Times: Why vaccinated people are getting ‘breakthrough’ infections Axios: The return of superstar cities NPR: Tips and ‘service with a smile’ rules fuel sex harassment in restaurants, study says The New York Times: PG&E aims to curb wildfire risk by burying many power
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Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter said late Friday afternoon that they are watching a fire about 10 miles due south of the Town of Cascade that is on both private and Bureau of Land Management property. Slaughter said that one residence has been evacuated as of 5 p.m. July 23 and that pre-evacuation warnings have been given to multiple other
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The names of candidates to appear on the city ballot in November has changed again. The Cascade County Attorney’s Office issued a legal opinion on July 23 stating that Paige Turoski’s name can appear on the ballot, after previously finding that her name could not because she hadn’t filed paperwork on time with the Montana Commissioner of Political Practices. That
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The state’s dashboard shows that Cascade County added 38 new COVID-19 cases since July 21 and that there are now 100 active cases in the county. That’s more cases in two days than the county added from July 14-21. Bowen Trystianson, deputy health officer at Cascade County City-County Health Department, told The Electric that “at this point it is too
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During a Senate Appropriations Defense Subcommittee hearing on Navy and Air Force Weapons Systems Divestments, Air Force officials said that they won’t change the 120th Airlift Wing’s mission without involving the state. Sen. Jon Tester chairs the committee and called the hearing to question the Air Force about its plans to retire C-130H aircraft since the service’s proposed budget includes
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