Great Falls News Archives

Halloween isn't just for the kids - it's also celebrated by the young at heart. Here in Great Falls, staff at the law firm of Ugren, Alexander, Zadick and Higgins are getting into the holiday spirit early with a costume and office decorating contest.

Thanks to an early cold snap and windy conditions, most of the leaves in the area are on the ground...but hopefully not for long.

It has been one week since allegations surfaced that special needs children were abused at North Middle School in Great Falls.

Great Falls is home to some of the latest technology in skin treatment and rejuvenation.

Brooke Adams spent her senior year of high school in a hospital bed. Adams used to suffer from chest pains that frequently landed her in the hospital.

Local filmmaker Gerald Bickel once again will bring an original film to the big screen.

One boy flits through Shannon Hinojosa's special education classroom at Loy Elementary School on Friday, wailing a wordless complaint as he darts from corner to corner.

The proposed southern arterial aimed at reducing congestion on 10th Avenue South in Great Falls is one step closer to becoming a reality.

The Salon Professional Academy in Great Falls is lending a hand to help find a cure for breast cancer.

Each year nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, according to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

Abuse allegations at a Great Falls Middle School has led a state lawmaker to ask the Montana Attorney General's Office to launch its own investigation into the matter.

U.S. Senator Jon Tester announced on Wednesday that he has hired Conrad farmer Jacob Cowgill to serve as his new state agriculture liaison.

Bill Wilson, a Great Falls representative in the Montana Legislature, is calling for Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock to conduct an independent investigation into potential child abuse in the Great Falls School District.

If you don't know much about history here's your chance to redeem yourself. The 36th annual Montana History Conference continues today through Saturday at the Holiday Inn in Great Falls.

Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts put down their flashlights and picked up radio receivers over the weekend as part of the club's annual "Jamboree on The Air". Boy Scouts across America have been using Hamm radios to communicate with scouts in other states and other countries for over 50-years. But in Montana, this was just the third year that scouts ...

Walter Breuning never met the legendary James J. Hill of St. Paul, the 'empire builder' who built the Great Northern Railway from St.

One for the Great Falls record books: the first baby born at the new Benefis South Patient Tower arrived on Monday.

Great Falls newest theater group, Electric City Living Arts Theater, debuts tonight with a farcical play about the power of underwear.

Be-bop and straight-ahead jazz, West Coast style, come to the First Congregational/Christ United Methodist Church next weekend.

A routine traffic stop in Great Falls turned into a trip to jail for a wanted felon.

The H1N1 flu vaccine has arrived in Great Falls, with 1,000 doses of the nasal spray version being readied for an "H1N1 Flu Vaccine Clinic" on Wednesday.

HELENA - Lewis and Clark County health officials say the death of a Helena adult at a Great falls hospital over the weekend was not related to swine flu.

Good morning; on the Beacon today, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester sat down with administrators and physicians at Kalispell Regional Medical Center to discuss health care reform.

A cold wintry day did little to cool the spirits of hundreds of families welcoming home loved ones as nearly 250 Malmstrom Airmen returned back to Great Falls.

In 1984, Ronald Reagan was president and northcentral Montana was going through hard economic times.

The Centers for Disease Control have stopped requiring reports from counties and states on H1N1 cases, making it harder to measure the spread of the illness.

They might just be 9th-graders right now, but these could be future builders, plumbers and iron workers, and they got to see first-hand at what those careers might be like, as Great Falls hosted a Trades Rodeo at the Montana ExpoPark.

Senator Jon Tester is spearheading an effort to support gun rights, in an upcoming United States Supreme Court case.

Last week we told you that the air traffic control team at Great Falls International Airport was recognized for one million error-free flight operations .

Steven Skjold appeared in a Great Falls court today, charged with driving drunk and leading police on a high-speed chase last night through downtown neighborhood streets.

The Great Falls Tribune has published a second hard-bound, pictorial coffee table book this fall to celebrate the city's 125th anniversary.

There's a kind of a restless feeling and it pulls me from within It sets my senses reeling and my wheels begin to spin In the quietude of winter you can hear the wild geese cry And I will always love that sound until the day I die "Restless" - Gordon Lightfoot As he writes so eloquently in one his favorite self-penned songs, songwriter and ...

The last time Great Falls undertook a major community visioning process was in the 1990s.

Lani Porter normally would have stayed away from the Sip-N-Dip Lounge because more than 40 years worth of cigarette smoke had become just as thick as the tiki decor.

The Great Falls Pre-Release Center received special honors from the state of Montana last night in Missoula, as eight organizations from across the state were recognized by MT Labor Commissioner Keith Kelly.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. -- A Montana woman accused of letting her 12-year-old daughter drive three siblings to day care has been fined nearly $1,000. Angela Parenteau entered a no contest plea to one count of criminal endangerment Thursday in Municipal Court in Great Falls.

About 100 protesters gathered in Great Falls on Thursday to rally against the new ban on motorized recreation in the Badger-Two Medicine area, which encompasses roughly 130,000 acres in northern Montana.

Democratic Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester have teamed up with a bipartisan group of U.S. senators in urging Defense Secretary Robert Gates not to trim the number of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Yoshiko Frazier has called Great Falls home for more than 30 years, but on Sunday, she got the chance to tell the community about her real home - Kumamoto, Japan.