In recognition of World Rabies Day, the City of Great Falls Animal Shelter is holding a free rabies vaccination clinic. The event aims to raise awareness about the importance of rabies prevention and commemorate the work of Louis Pasteur, who developed the first rabies vaccine in 1885. World Rabies Day is observed globally every year on Sept. 28, highlighting the significance of rabies prevention worldwide,
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Construction is on hold at the Rocky Mountain Building at 601 Central Ave. downtown. Alluvion Health purchase the building several years ago and is planning to renovate it into a full-service clinic. Alluvion’s initial budget was set around $22 million, but has since been revised to more than $40 million to account for inflationary impacts, Maia LaSalle, Alluvion’s communications director,
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Updated 2:30 p.m. Sept. 19 On Sept. 11, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved and authorized for emergency use Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech monovalent COVID-19 immunization formulations that more closely target the currently circulating variants and provide better protection against serious consequences of COVID-19. On Sept. 13, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also recommended administration of the newly
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By By Keely Larson | KFF Health News Montana’s legislature designated $3.7 million this spring to remove lead from school drinking-water supplies, then the state received $565,000 more on Aug. 1 from the $50 billion federal infrastructure package aiming to improve water systems nationally. But even with these two new pools of money intended to last two years, the state’s schools may struggle to remove
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Updated 1:15 p.m. Aug. 31, with additional information from Sheriff Jesse Slaughter Treya Plummer has been charged with multiple felonies for bringing drugs into the Cascade County Adult Detention Center and distributing those drugs to other inmates, causing overdoses. On Aug. 15, the jail called for assistance for multiple inmates displaying symptoms consistent with an overdose, according to court documents.
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Air Force Global Strike Command released the initial PCB survey results from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota last week, completing the first round of sampling at its three missile bases. Results from Malmstrom AFB and F.E. Warren AFB in Wyoming were released in August. The survey was conducted in June and July, consisting of air, water, soil and surface swipes
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The Cascade County Weed and Mosquito Division has detected its first West Nile Virus positive mosquito samples of 2023. Two WNV positive samples of adult Culex tarsalis mosquitos were collected from the northern and northwest city limits of Great Falls on Aug. 10, according to the Cascade City-County Health Department. The samples were confirmed positive by the lab at the Montana
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Air Force Global Strike Command officials said Aug. 7 that initial test results found polychlorinated biphenyls at two locations as part of the missile community cancer study. AFGSC said it is taking steps to cleanup and mitigate the PCBs. The intercontinental ballistic missile nuclear alert mission is not affected during the cleanup and mitigation, according to AFGSC. A team of
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Photo by Matt Ehnes of Jared’s Detours Touro University held a white coat ceremony and ribbon cutting for its new College of Osteopathic Medicine in Great Falls on Aug. 7. During the ceremonies, the university and community leaders welcomed the inaugural class of 125 medical students and 60 faculty to the new 100,000 square-foot building with state-of-the-art labs, a simulation
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The Cascade City-County Health Department and Great Falls Clinic Hospital are hosting a back to school clinic on Aug. 9 in the Pacific Steel and Recycling Four Seasons Arena at Montana ExpoPark. The event is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and includes sport physicals and immunizations to get students ready for the school year, which begins Aug. 30 and the
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