Sun River News

Trouble may be rising for hundreds - perhaps thousands - of people in and around Great Falls, and it's due in part to the lasting effects of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast back in August 2005.

A former Simms High School student who was injured in football practice last summer is suing the Sun River Valley School District.

A fellow appeared at the doors of the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation in Great Falls in September 1919.

Students roamed the halls of Sun River Middle School for the last time today. In March, school trustees voted to close the middle school in an effort to offset budget and enrollment concerns.

SUN RIVER - Lennis Lewis Limesand, 78, of Sun River, a retired teacher and 3rd Infantry Division Army veteran, died of cancer May 12 at his home.

Several farmers are petitioning Cascade County District Court to allow them to be included in the Fort Shaw Irrigation District.

The American Lung Association is a little richer, and a few bike riders a little more exhausted, this evening.

Flooding is a possibility this holiday weekend and into next week across the region, according to the National Weather Service in Great Falls.

Voters passed all but one of the levy requests in elections held in Cascade County on Tuesday night.

Ballots were still being counted for what could be a hotly contested trustee race in the Sun River Valley School District.

Great Falls city commissioners held a special meeting Wednesday afternoon, but almost nobody came.

With rural roads covered with snow and impassable for buses, Cascade School District is cancelling classes Thursday.

In late March of 1885 two men trailing horses from Canada were surrounded in a saloon near Dupuyer by a "committee" of two-dozen armed men, most of them carrying Winchesters.

Judith Marlene Bauman, 46, of Great Falls, died Saturday at her home. Cremation has taken place under the direction of Croxford Funeral Home and Crematory.

Time to mount up and toughen up that backside, those legs and those lungs: It is bicycling season in Montana.

Damage to a bridge over Interstate 15 could keep the northbound lanes of the roadway closed for weeks, according to Montana Department of Transportation officials.

A backhoe crane being hauled by a tractor-trailer smashed into the Sun River Bridge tonight, shutting down both lanes of Interstate 15 for a time and causing an unknown amount of damage.

City workers may end up scrambling to keep up with projects that may get special federal grant dollars from Washington in the coming months.

Billy Cross' plans to get his motorcycle out and about on Sunday were foiled by approximately 5 inches of sloppy snow that fell steadily all day in Great Falls.

A fire that may have started in the kitchen completely destroyed a two-story home in Simms on Sunday night.