Cascade News

No one was injured after a Cessna plane made an emergency landing on Interstate 15 southbound north of Craig on Friday.

Residents of Belt, Neihart and Cascade weren't exactly stampeding to run for office in those towns prior to Tuesday's municipal general elections.

A Cascade County garbage drop-off site in a state park will remain open - at least for now, Jim Lynch, director of the state Department of Transportation, has assured Cascade County commissioners.

The Cascade City-County Health Department will hold an H1N1 flu-shot clinic Thursday in the Exhibition Hall of the Montana ExpoPark.

It was almost a month ago Montana went smoke free as on October 1st, smoking was no longer allowed in bars and casinos.

The Winter Weather Advisory that was to begin at noon today is now in effect as of 9 am.

One word popped in Cascade student Jay Hickam's mind upon hearing he would be shopping for clothes with a Cascade County Sheriff's Office deputy - "Yes!" Hickam, 9, was among a dozen elementary school students from Cascade County who were paired with 12 deputies for the Shop with the Sheriff program at Wal-Mart on Wednesday.

In small schools like Highwood and Centerville, where they're close to Great Falls, but just far enough away, students are getting opportunities they might not otherwise be afforded through afterschool programs.

Opportunities Inc. has been waging a war on poverty since 1965, and it is now facing an uphill battle.

Joan and Charlie Hawn celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the Cascade Senior Citizens Center on Aug.

A piece of farm equipment struck a bridge in Ulm on Wednesday, causing only cosmetic damage, according to the Montana Highway Patrol.

Les Stevenson came to Montana on the promise of a $35-per-day job. In 1955, the then 21-year-old, who was raised on a dairy and grain farm in North Dakota, heard that was the wage for a combine driver.

It was a cold day on Oct. 11 in 1969 and 1972 in several communities across northcentral Montana.

KTM factory enduro pilots Mike Lafferty and Russell Bobbitt choose radically different bikes for the same championship quest.

Murry and Marilyn Moore of Cascade celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on Aug.

It's been in the works since 2005, and Montana is now smoke free - at least indoors.

By Alison Beshur Times Features Editor alison.beshur dailytimes.com As author, painter, illustrator, wrangler and sculptor, Charles Marion Russell was a renaissance cowboy who often is called the 'first cowboy artist,' said Paula Brigham Horner, curator of the Museum of Western Art.

In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Month, several state agencies banded together for Montana's second "Day Of Healing." The department of Public Health & Human Services, the Governor's office, and Wyoming Tribal leaders council sponsored today's ceremony in Helena.

Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services officials are spreading the word out about the October 1st beginning of the voter approved Healthy Montana Kids plan.

Grief and anger were the most frequently voiced reactions Tuesday to the C.M. Russell Museum's announcement Monday that it will hold its own art sale and auction next year.