The Cascade County Zoning Board of Adjustment voted 3-2 during their April 16 meeting to deny a special use permit for a substance abuse treatment facility to expand from eight to 16 beds. The facility, Healing the Circle Lodge, opened last summer at 2601 Jasper Road. Several area residents spoke in opposition to the permit with concern over property values,
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The night show lineup for the 2026 Montana State Fair has been announced. This year’s fair at Montana Expo Park is July 24-Aug. 1 and this year’s theme is “Red, White and Fair.” Tickets go on sale soon. The fair includes four night shows, four nights of PRCA rodeo, live horse racing, commercial exhibits and vendors, food vendors and the
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Cascade County Public Works is scheduled to conduct street sweeping operations in the Black Eagle area in April 15-16, weather permitting. Sweeping is scheduled to take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Residents are asked to assist crews by removing vehicles from the street during scheduled sweeping times and not placing debris, garbage, or yard waste in roadways. “Street
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Tiffany Bourdeau appeared in court on April 10 for what was scheduled as her sentencing in an animal cruelty case. In November, she pleaded guilty as part of a plea agreement. She was charged in late August with a felony count of aggravated animal cruelty after a complaint led the Cascade County Sheriff’s Office to seize 37 dogs and other
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The Cascade County Zoning Board of Adjustment is scheduled to consider a special use permit application from Healing the Circle Lodge, a drug rehab facility, to increase from eight to 16 beds. The facility opened last summer at 2601 Jasper Road. Initially planned as an 18-bed facility, the company withdrew its permit application in June 2025 after a lengthy public hearing in
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Updated at noon April 10 with details from the new Municipal Court case Nehemias Valeriano Midence, 22, was arrested on April 7 for violating bond conditions in an underlying case in which he was charged with three felony counts of sexual abuse of children in district court in September. In the fall, he was initially held in the Cascade County
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During their April 1 meeting, the city-county health board discussed the city’s response to their request for additional funding toward health department operations. Cascade County’s City-County Health Department is a joint city-county operation providing public health services, including, but not limited to, vaccinations, restaurant inspections, rabies investigations, septic reviews, communicable disease prevention and family services. County Commission selects Gardner as
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Cascade County Commissioners have scheduled interviews for April 2 for the community installation liaison position for which they received a federal grant for last fall. Commissioners are scheduled to interview five candidates. The interviews may be conducted in closed session, under state law, since the Cascade County Attorney’s Office determined these interviews could be done privately if the applicants asserted
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The city’s new tax increment financing advisory board is scheduled to meet for the first time at 2 p.m. April 7. No agenda has yet been posted on the city website. City Commissioners appointed the fifth member, Don Ryan, during a February meeting as the county representative, which is required under a 2025 state law change. Ryan is a former
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Rodney Gladue, 37, entered no contest pleas during a March 30 hearing for his role in an August 2025 crash and police pursuit. Gladue was initially charged with seven counts from the chase: two criminal endangerment one reckless driving one speeding one driving while suspended one fleeing or eluding law enforcement one stop sign violation He also had a criminal
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