Great Falls Montana

In recent weeks, hundreds of White Lives Matter stickers have been placed on street signs, local art installations and private property around Great Falls. Vandals have also sprayed graffiti with neo-nazi images.

This spring, MTPR's Ellis Juhlin and Katy Wade set out on a multi-purpose road-trip across northeast Montana to sit down and meet with those to hear what they wanted to share about their home.

Voters in Great Falls went to the polls Tuesday to decide whether to increase taxpayer funding for the Great Falls Public Library. The vote is a test of the new county clerk and recorder's ability to hold an error-free election.

A case of Chronic Wasting Disease recently detected in a mule deer marks the first confirmed case of the contagious neurological condition within the city limits of Great Falls.

The Montana Board of Housing Monday announced more than $31 million in competitive federal tax credits for affordable housing projects across the state.

Local option sales taxes on recreational marijuana appear to have been favored during Montana’s midterm election. Efforts to ban recreational sales had a more mixed response.

Marijuana dispensary owners in Great Falls have won a lawsuit against the city. The decision determined a city where sales are legal can’t ban marijuana businesses without holding an election.

Two years after Montana voters statewide legalized recreational marijuana some communities are still fighting over the issue. Recreational sales are once again on the ballot this November.

Attorney Raph Graybill is representing the Yatskos and says the city ban is illegal because Cascade County voters approved recreational marijuana in 2020.

After news broke that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the national right to an abortion, our reporters went out to ask Montanans their views on the ruling.