Cascade County News

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In the wake of a record-breaking campaign, United Way of Cascade County announced Tuesday it will invest $906,711 in the community in areas of education, financial stability and health.

A Sun Prairie man charged with stealing 530 pounds of change worth nearly $4,000 from a neighbor's house has denied multiple felony charges.

Tons of metals sludge that has built up in streams, underneath bridges and within culverts in Cascade County will be removed this summer, according to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality Abandoned Mine Lands Bureau.

Cascade County Commissioners voted 3-0 Tuesday to refinance $3.3 million in general obligation bonds to take advantage of historically low interest rates and reap interest savings.

Neighborhood Council No. 5, which serves the area south of 10th Avenue South from 20th Street South to the eastern city limits, meets today at 7 p.m. in the Great Falls Clinic Specialty Center's conference room, 3000 15th Ave.

Author Richard Ford has written a new novel set in Great Falls and Saskatchewan in the 1960s.

To check current winning numbers in Montana Lottery games, call 406-444-5825 or go online to www.montanalottery.com . Herman, Bryan, 23, Simms, made initial appearance on felony assault with a weapon and five counts of felony sexual intercourse without consent.

The Montana Department of Labor says the rate fell after holding steady the two previous months at 6.2 percent.

The Cascade County Sheriff's Office has purchased four new black patrol cars. The current fleet of patrol vehicles are white pickups.

Folks from the Great Falls Pre-Release service presented their annual Law Day Exceptional Achievement Award today.

Public meeting at Black Eagle fire station, 527 21st St. N.E., on proposed fire fee increase for residents of Black Eagle Fire Service Area, 7 p.m., Tuesday.

Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf, center, sits in a Cascade County courtroom in Great Falls, Mont., last week.

Easter has come and gone, but an Easter egg-style hunt for young and old alike kicks off May 15 at... Great Falls Police made an arrest in connection with the mysterious death of Sherry Lankford, a Great Falls woman who went missing in March 2011 and whose body was found in the Missouri River a year ago.

Easter has come and gone, but an Easter egg-style hunt for young and old alike kicks off May 15 at... Heads swam and plenty of conversations ensued after President Barack Obama announced this week he personally favors same-sex marriage.

Trips to the state meet are on the line in the next few days for tennis players from Great Falls... A federal lien against District judge candidate Michael Rausch that the Internal Revenue Service put on his property is a "non-issue," the judicial hopeful said Thursday and questioned the timing of its release to the media.

Trips to the state meet are on the line in the next few days for tennis players from Great Falls... A Great Falls man was arrested for an alleged road rage assault involving a homemade billy club that sent one man to the hospital and injured two others.

Easter has come and gone, but an Easter egg-style hunt for young and old alike kicks off May 15 at... Kandy Sonsteng, a Cascade County Election Specialist, unseals absentee ballots from Tuesday's Great Falls School District election in Exhibition Hall at the Montana ExpoPark.

Jason Rosander, 33, looks to his defense attorney Kenneth Olson during an initial appearance last October.

In Montana, voters do not register with a party. In a primary election you get a packet with three envelopes and two ballots.