The Great Falls Public Schools board budget committee voted during their Feb. 17 meeting to recommend that the district forgo a levy this year. The district is hosting a budget town hall on March 5 and the full board will consider the budget committee’s recommendation at its March 23 meeting. But, the committee members, Paige Turoski, Bill Bronson and Kim
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Updated Feb. 18 with additional filings Filing for county offices opened Feb. 17 and runs through March 4. Multiple county positions are on the 2026 ballot, including a commission seat, sheriff, county attorney, clerk and recorder and treasurer. The primary is scheduled for June 2 and the general election is Nov. 3. As of 5 p.m. Feb. 18, the following
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The Great Falls Police Department is being inundated with weather related crashes. In the last 20 minutes, just before noon Fen. 17, GFPD has responded to six crashed between I-15 Exit 0 and Fox Farm Road, on top of several other crashed on 10th Avenue South and other areas of town. Officials have just closed the exit from the interstate
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The consultants hired by the city to conduct a comprehensive fee study, cost allocation plan and operational efficiency review of Great Falls Park and Recreation reviewed their findings so far during the Feb. 9 Park and Rec advisory board meeting. In October, City Commissioners approved a $94,792 contract with Matrix Consulting for the study. Final Park and Rec mini-poll open
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The city solicited applications for a county representative to the tax increment financing advisory committee for a four-year term through Dec. 31, 2029. The opening was posted for a week, opening on Feb. 6 and closing on Feb. 13. The applicant must be a Cascade County employee to be considered, according to the city’s vacancy posting. The city received one
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Two neighborhood councils meet in Great Falls Feb. 16-19. Neighborhood Council 5 meets at 7 p.m. Feb. 16 in the Great Falls Clinic Specialty Center conference room, 3000 15th Ave. S. Agenda items include a presentation from NeighborWorks Great Falls about classes and services offered, discussion of changing the council meeting dates from the third Mondays of the month by
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Judges are needed for the upcoming Great Falls College Regional Science and Engineering fairs, which attract students from all over northcentral Montana on March 10 and March 12. The high school and middle school fair is March 10 and the elementary fair is March 12. Scientific expertise is not needed to be a judge. Judges for the high school and
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A jury found Dalton Feeler not guilty of deliberate homicide, or mitigated deliberate homicide, on Feb. 11 after a three-day trial before Judge Elizabeth Best. When the verdict was read in district court, Dalton Feeler jumped up from his seat and hugged one of his attorneys as his family audibly reacted and applauded. Feeler shot and killed his father, Jason
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Cascade County has confirmed its first case of pertussis in 2026. Although only one case has been confirmed, it involved a large number of exposures. There are multiple other suspected pertussis infections that have not been confirmed through laboratory testing, according to Cascade City-County Health Department. Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly contagious respiratory infection that spreads
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The world is more connected than ever through the internet, social media and artificial intelligence, but “people are more and more lonely,” Robert Kahn, the fourth candidate in the Great Falls Symphony‘s search for a new conductor this season. “The sense of community that’s missing,” Kahn said. “I think this is where performing arts can bring people together in a meaningful
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