Neihart News

For many, the search for the perfect Christmas tree begins this weekend. But if you're on Forest Service land, make sure you have a permit before making your cut.

Twenty downtown businesses join in the fun for this month's First Friday Art Walk, making the heart of Great Falls beat a bit stronger this month.

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

Big game plans may be put on hold for hunting enthusiasts in the Little Belt Mountains, as unusually heavy snow from Tuesday's storm has caused many forest roads to become impassable.

Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency briefed local civic and health leaders about the cleanup of the old mining town of Neihart.

NEIHART - Robert John Bach, 77, of Neihart, a Korean War veteran and retired mechanic, died Tuesday at a Great Falls care facility, after a long illness.

NEIHART - Robert John Bach, 77, of Neihart, a Korean War veteran and retired mechanic, died Tuesday at a Great Falls care facility, after a long illness.

Cascade County Search and Rescue workers are still combing through the Little Belt Mountains searching for a man who has been missing since Saturday night.

A severe thunderstorm that roared through central and eastern Montana late Monday afternoon and evening pelted the Monarch-Neihart area with golf ball-sized hail and hit Fort Benton with 60 mph winds, but spared Great Falls.

Meike Messick knows that cutthroat trout are native to Montana, but until she ventured into the Lewis and Clark National Forest last week, she didn't know much about their relatives.

With fire season approaching, fire managers in the Jefferson Division of the Lewis and Clark National Forest now have the choice, for the first time, of immediately attacking fires or managing for resource benefits - or both.