Category: News


  • Massive Storms Cause Widespread Power Outages in West Central Montana

    July 25, 2024 Missoula, MT – In the wake of Thursday evening’s severe storm, over 10,000 residents are still without electricity this morning. Power outages are reported from Missoula extending westward to Alberton, eastward to Clinton, and across the Northern Bitterroot region. The powerful thunderstorm brought hurricane-force winds, lightning, and heavy rain, leaving a trail…

  • Honoring Our Ancestors: The Little Shell Tribe Welcomes a Child Back Home

    The Little Shell Tribal Council has collaborated with the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History on the repatriation of the remains of a Little Shell child. Today marks the return of this ancestor to the Little Shell Tribe, who will hold a traditional reburial ceremony to properly lay the child to rest. This is a…

  • Cascade County Jail Faces Scrutiny After Three Inmate Deaths in Two Weeks

    GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter reported that three inmates have died in the Cascade County Detention Center within the last two weeks. Two of the deaths were suicides, and one was due to a drug overdose. “This is very troubling to me, and I know it’s troubling to our community, too,”…

  • Great Falls Pre-Release Center Escapee on the Loose

    Originally reported by Madison Seipp, NonStop Local Digital Journalist, Jul 14, 2024 on Montana Right Now GREAT FALLS, Mont. – The State of Montana Department of Corrections is actively searching for Hunter J. Peffers, a 26-year-old man who escaped from the Great Falls Pre-Release Center. Peffers, who was arrested for criminal mischief, failed to return…