Tag: Great Falls


  • Bringing Our Ancestors Home: Little Shell Tribe to Rebury Repatriated Child

    The Little Shell Tribal Council has recently worked with the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History to facilitate the repatriation of the remains of a Little Shell child. Today, the Little Shell Tribe is honored to welcome this ancestor back home and will hold a traditional reburial ceremony to ensure the child is properly laid…

  • Cascade County Jail Under Investigation After Three Inmate Deaths in Two Weeks

    GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter reported that three inmates have died in separate incidents at 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…

  • Escapee on the Loose from Great Falls Pre-Release Center

    Reported by NonStop Local Digital Journalist Madison Seipp, July 14, 2024 at montanarightnow.com The State of Montana Department of Corrections is on high alert after Hunter J. Peffers, a 26-year-old inmate at the Great Falls Pre-Release Center, failed to return as scheduled on Sunday, July 14, 2024. Peffers, who was serving time for criminal mischief,…