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The Electric Independent news site dedicated to coverage of Great Falls and Cascade County, Montana, as well as Ma

Independent news site dedicated to coverage of Great Falls and Cascade County, Montana, as well as Malmstrom Air Force Base and the Montana National Guard.

Tomorrow morning, Cascade County Commissioners will consider a contract with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol for housing ...
10/13/2025

Tomorrow morning, Cascade County Commissioners will consider a contract with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol for housing their detainees in the county jail.

The county is already housing Border Patrol detainees and had been doing so under a contract with the U.S. Marshals Service, but it was determined that contract didn't specifically authorize CPB so a separate contract was needed to ensure the county was paid for housing those detainees.

https://theelectricgf.com/2025/10/13/county-considering-u-s-border-patrol-contract-for-county-jail/

The latest round of business bites: Double Barrel Coffee House Cafe has a new owner; Bricks and Minifigs is opening; Gre...
10/08/2025

The latest round of business bites: Double Barrel Coffee House Cafe has a new owner; Bricks and Minifigs is opening; Great Falls Community Concert Association opens its 97th season this week; Cassiopeia Books hosting an author event; NeighborWorks Great Falls launches new homeownership program and more.

https://theelectricgf.com/2025/10/07/business-bites-new-owner-for-double-barrel-bricks-and-minifigs-opening-great-falls-community-concert-season-opens-oct-9-coat-drive-author-event-at-cassiopeia-aauw-book-sale-nwgf-launches-new-h/

A Mexican man who was in the United States illegally was sentenced in late September to a term of time-served and remand...
10/04/2025

A Mexican man who was in the United States illegally was sentenced in late September to a term of time-served and remanded to the U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.

He was held in the Cascade County Adult Detention Center for a total of 94 days in two stints. As of Sept. 26 he was no longer in the jail, according to the Cascade County Attorney’s Office.

The county jail roster now shows all federal and immigration inmates after The Electric asked about inmates missing on the roster, totalling roughly 100 people.

https://theelectricgf.com/2025/10/04/mexican-man-illegally-in-the-u-s-sentenced/

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The Electric is an independent news website focused on Great Falls and Cascade County, as well as Malmstrom Air Force Base and the Montana National Guard. For now, this is largely a passion project spearheaded by Jenn Rowell, a former Tribune city/military reporter with more than a decade of journalism experience. Others involved will include former journalists in the Great Falls area and across Montana as well as other smart people with a knack for writing and informing the community.

Before the Tribune, Jenn covered the military and other beats for papers in Alabama and Virginia, and did communications work for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund and the National Museum of Health and Medicine.

You can find some of Jenn’s previous work here and here.

The kind of stories you can expect to find here: how local government works; things that seem boring, such as taxes, budgets, municipal code and ordinance updates, but actually impact your life; analysis of economic development, downtown revitalization, and the local business climate; food security, the local food network, agriculture and local impact to the bigger food picture in the U.S.; news from the Montana National Guard and Malmstrom Air Force Base, which will often include broader nuclear issues, military and national security stories.