Jeremiah Gideon appeared in court on Oct. 16 as he was scheduled to go to trial next week, but that’s on hold. Gideon is facing attempted deliberate homicide and assault on a peace officer charges from an Oct. 9, 2024 incident in which he hit a Montana Credit Union employee with his vehicle and during subsequent interviews, threatened investigators. The
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The Great Falls Public Schools board voted during their Oct. 13 meeting to approve a 15-foot easement for NorthWestern Energy to run electricity to a new air quality monitoring station. The Montana Department of Environmental Quality is installing the new station on a piece of property at the Seibel soccer complex, just east of 52nd Street North and Silverwood Court.
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The U.S. Senate confirmed 16 U.S. attorneys, including Great Falls native Kurt Alme for the District of Montana, on Oct. 7. Alme was appointed by U. S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and sworn in by Chief U. S. District Judge Brian Morris on March 17, serving on an interim basis for a period of 120 days or until a presidential
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The Cascade City County Health Department has launched a public awareness campaign about the new prohibition of vaping in workplaces and indoor public spaces. The Legislature approved Senate Bill 390 earlier this year, which expanded the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act to include e-cigarettes. “This critical legislation closes a gap in the 20-year-old law, ensuring Montanans will be protected from
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The Great Falls Public Schools board voted during their Sept. 22 meeting to approve a construction bid for the Great Falls High School shop renovation. The district is remodeling the former GFH shop area into a district-wide enhanced learning center that may be used by all schools. It’s one GFPS project being funded through the Montana innovative educational tax credit program,
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The Montana Legislature’s school funding interim committee is holding an online “roadshow” event 6:30-8 p.m. Sept. 24 for the public to share their thoughts. The Zoom link is here. The interim committee is currently conducting the statewide decennial study of school funding and last week met for two days in partnership with the National Center on Education and the Economy, the consulting
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On the third Friday of September each year, the nation recognizes those were were prisoners of war or remain missing in action. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is a division of the federal defense department charges with providing the “fullest possible accounting” for those missing from past conflicts, to include World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War, Gulf
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Brig. Gen. Buel Dickson relinquished command of the Montana Air National Guard to Brig. Gen. Trace Thomas this weekend, and retired as about 150 members of the 120th Airlift Wing returned from deployment. Dickson has served as the assistant adjutant general of the Montana National Guard, commanding the air component, since June 2020 and before that served as commander of
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Black Hills Corp. and NorthWestern Energy Group announced Aug. 19 that each company’s board of directors has unanimously approved a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock, tax-free merger that will create a “premier regional regulated electric and natural gas utility company with a pro forma market capitalization” of about $7.8 billion and a combined enterprise value of $15.4 billion,
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Beginning Aug. 15, Montana homeowners can apply for the 2025 property tax rebate. To qualify, you must have owned and lived in your Montana home as your principal residence for at least seven months during the 2024 calendar year. When applying, you will need to provide the: property’s physical address property geocode amount of property taxes paid as shown on
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