Local Headlines Articles
Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Friends of Beaver Creek Park up and running
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
The Hill County Park Board Monday heard an update on the activities of a new group formed to help fund activities and improvements at Beaver Creek County Park, and approved using park facilities for a fundraising event at Camp Kiwanis in the park May 12.
Too many beavers in Beaver Creek Park
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
After two Hill County residents raised the question at Monday’s Hill County Park Board, its chair said the board would consider increasing the amount of trapping being done on the animal that ga...
Highway Bill passes out of Senate committee
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
A bill to set highway spending for the next two years is moving on to the floor of the Senate, with Montana’s senior U. S. senator saying it could be debated as soon as next week.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
4 Hi-Line residents planning mission to Africa
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Four Hi-Line residents will embark in July on the trip of a lifetime when they travel to Africa to take part in a month-long medical mission.
Board raises Beaver Creek fees
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
In front of a crowd of more than 30 people during a contentious three-hour meeting, the Hill County Park Board Monday raised the fees of many activities on the park, with split votes on every issue including leaving some fees unchanged.
Havre may revisit cellphone driving ban
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
The main business of Monday’s Havre City Council meeting breezed by uneventfully. In fact, without the 20-minute explanation of a smooth audit of the city’s finances from fiscal year 2011, the meeting could have been one of the classic five-minute in-and-out affairs.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Essential Air Service funding passes Congress
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Montana’s senior U. S. senator, Democrat Max Baucus, Monday applauded the passage of the Federal Aviation Administration authorization, which includes authorization and one-year’s funding of Essential Air Service.
Baucus to Solis: Put your boots on a Montana farm
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Montana’s senior U. S. senator sent an invitation to the U. S. Department of Labor to look at a hot topic: regulating child labor on agricultural operations.
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Health inspector weighs in on restaurant safety
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2012
Hill County officials were caught off-guard — like most people — by the closing of Wendy’s Restaurant in Havre.
Hospital weighs other options for Sletten
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2012
Last week’s announcement of the scale back of services at Hi-Line Sletten Cancer Center drew a few reactions over the weekend.
Lawyer says Wendy’s owners hope to re-open
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2012
The regional Wendy’s restaurants owned by the BZB organization remain closed this week, but the hopes they’ll reopen soon, all renovated and cleaned-up, remain strong.
Rehberg drops gauntlet on child farm labor
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2012
Montana’s sole U. S. representative had a clear message to the U. S. Department of Labor about its proposed rules restricting children’s work on farms and ranches: Not on my watch.
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Hi-Line Sletten to lose cancer services
Published: Friday, February 3rd, 2012
By the end of the month, the Hi-Line’s branch of the Sletten Cancer Institute, next to Northern Montana Hospital, will cease offering radiation therapy to cancer patients.
Singing Northern senior hopes to make it big
Published: Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Montana State University-Northern senior, and now former Skylight volleyball player, Sierra Diehl has been opening many of the school’s sporting events with the “Star Spangled Banner” during her four years in Havre. Now, with the encouragement of some big fans, Diehl wants to take the next step.
So, where has all the winter gone?
Published: Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Despite severe storms in other parts of the country, it looks like Old Man Winter will continue to stay away from north-central Montana, at least for the immediate future.
Rehberg brings Keystone discussion back to payroll tax cut
Published: Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Montana’s sole U. S. representative is again pushing for approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, trying again to attach it to an issue President Barack Obama is pushing, extending a payroll tax cut.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
MAT opens ‘In the Next Room’ this week
Published: Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The local acting troupe is set to open a play this week characterized as more about Victorian-era relationships between men and women and suppression of sexuality than about its subject: using newly invented electronic vibrators to treat hysteria in women.
Korst named Hamilton superintendent
Published: Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Tom Korst, Havre Public Schools’ assistant superintendent, was just too impressive at his interviews in Hamilton less than two weeks ago, and now he’s leaving Havre.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Lawmakers comment on child farm labor exemptions
Published: Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Montana’s federal lawmakers were quick to comment Wednesday on an announcement from the U. S. Department of Labor that it would broaden exemptions on regulations governing child labor on agricultural operations, with the general tone that more needs to be done.
Interpretive center going up at buffalo jump
Published: Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
A new building is coming together — literally — at the archeological and tourist site just west of Havre.
Wildland fire workshops set for the Hi-Line, Bear Paws
Published: Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Local residents have the opportunity this week to find out what they should — and should not — do to help out if a wildland fire breaks out in the region.
One charged in second Havre pot bust
Published: Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The same day they tracked down five pounds of marijuana in an Amtrak compartment last weekend, Tri-Agency Drug Task Force members made another bust on 16th Street.
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Havre assistant superintendent gets top position in Hamilton
Published: Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Tom Korst, Havre Public Schools’ current assistant superintendent, was just too impressive at his interviews in Hamilton less than two weeks, and now he’s leaving Havre.The Hamilton School...
Infractions close Havre Wendy’s
Published: Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
A local business has shut down, strangled by regulatory standards, imposed not by any government entity but by their own corporate parent.
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
EAS funding saved through 2015, Sen. Baucus says
Published: Wednesday, February 1st, 2012
Montana’s senior senator announced Tuesday that a conference committee has saved the funding for the federal program providing air service to Havre and other communities through 2015.
