Category Archives: Great Falls

Neighbors appeal ZBOA decision Jasper drug rehab facility to County Commission; manager’s son charged for threatening others at facility’s downtown location

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Zaviyar Gilbreath, 21, was charged in late October with two felony counts of assault with a weapon after threatening people with a knife at an Elk Ridge Recovery location in downtown Great Falls. Around noon on Oct. 9, Great Falls Police officers were dispatched to 11 5th St. N., where Gilbreath was attending class with eight other people in a

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Victim of Malmstrom shooting identified; man charged with negligent homicide

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Updated Nov. 3 at 11 a.m. Malmstrom Air Force Base identified the name of the airman killed in a weekend shooting as Airman 1st Class Aldo Ortiz Perez. He was assigned to the 341st Missile Security Forces Squadron at Malmstrom. “The loss of Airman 1st Class Aldo Ortiz Perez is felt throughout the Malmstrom community,” Col. David Wyrick, 341st Missile

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Raskiewicz charged in weekend homicide

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Updated at 1:30 p.m. with information from a court hearing Jeremy Raskiewicz, 46, has been charged with deliberate homicide. According to the Great Falls Police Department, officers were dispatched around 1:30 a.m. Oct. 31  for a welfare check in the 2300 block of 11th Avenue South. Raskiewicz was booked into the Cascade County Adult Detention Center at 10:32 a.m. Oct.

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Two Great Falls neighborhood councils meet Nov. 4-5

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Two Great Falls neighborhood councils meet this week. Neighborhood Council 6 meets at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 4 in the Sunnyside Elementary School staff break room. Agenda items include Council of Councils meeting update, crime mapping report, council updates, and neighborhood concerns. More information on NC6, including boundaries and contact information, is here. Neighborhood Council 3 meets at 6:30 p.m. Nov.

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Downtown drainage project construction sequence changing for winter

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The sequencing for the downtown drainage construction has changed. During the Oct. 10 City Commission meeting, Chris Gaub, city public works director, said the project would progress on Central Avenue and in mid-November, city staff and the contractor would decide whether to shut down for the winter. On Oct. 28, Gaub told The Electric that the plan had changed. Under

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Abatement work starting on crisis center; local agencies partnering to revive mobile response team, crisis intervention

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Local agencies have been working for two years to rebuild a local crisis intervention system. That effort is moving forward as abatement work is set to begin within the next few weeks on the second floor of the Indian Family Health Clinic at 1220 Central Ave. for a crisis center. The idea is to create an open space with recliners,

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Cascade County Commissioners approve increase for bulk water rates

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Cascade County Commissioners voted unanimously during their Oct. 27 meeting to increase the bulk water rate to $0.0075 per gallon at their three filling stations. The new rate goes into effect Jan. 1, 2027. The water rate was last changed in 2017 and is currently 25 cents per 75 gallons. County staff had previously recommended increasing the rate to a

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City approves new firefighter labor agreement after yearlong negotiation

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City Commissioners approved a new two-year labor agreement with the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 8, which includes 64 sworn firefighters at Great Falls Fire Rescue. The new agreement is for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026, with a six percent wage increase in each year. The next collective bargaining session is set to start again in April

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Polls close Nov. 3 in Cascade County; 12,602 ballots accepted so far

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With one week to go before polls close on Nov. 3, the Cascade County elections office has accepted 12,602 ballots. The office had rejected 77 ballots, which were all for no signature or a mismatched signature on the outer envelope, according to Terry Thompson, county elections administrator. So far, 1,117 ballots were returned undeliverable. Those numbers are as of Oct.

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