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An education website has rankled Montana State University-Northern as the college with the 10th-best plumbing degree program in the nation for the 2017-2018 academic year. The ranking was done by schools.com based on a variety of factors using data provided by the National Center for Education Statistics. Rankings, the website said, were based on factors such as in-state undergraduate tuition and fees, graduation, accessibility based on admission rate, institutional spending, student-to-faculty ratio, flexibility and size of...
University of Montana President Seth Bodnar was the keynote speaker at Bear Paw Development Corp's annual meeting Thursday, where he discussed the role that higher education plays in shaping an ever-evolving economy. Bodnar is a graduate of West Point, a Rhodes and Truman scholar, and earned two master's degrees from the University of Oxford. He served as an assistant professor in the Department of Social Sciences at West Point, and continues to serve as a U.S. Army Reserve...
Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich presented the Havre City Council with the police department’s 2017 Annual Report at their meeting Tuesday night. The report said that calls for service to the department were 23,638, up from 22,339 the year before. Police made 1,582 arrests in 2017, a drop from 1,658 in 2016. Criminal offenses were 1,398, down from 1,418 in 2016, the report says. Police responded to 314 accidents, up from 80 in 2016. The report says police last year responded to 73 incidents of individuals driving under the in...
Local attorney Randy Randolph has filed to run as a Democrat for Hill County Attorney, setting the stage for a primary race between himself and Deputy Hill County Attorney Karen Alley. The two will face off in the June 5 primary for the position held by County Attorney Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson. No other candidates, including Cole-Hodgkinson, who was appointed by the Hill County Commissioners in 2016 to replace Gina Dahl, have filed to run as of print deadline today. Randolph is owner of Randolph Law Firm and has practiced law...
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., officially filed with the Montana Secretary of State’s Office Tuesday to run for a third-term to the U.S. Senate. A press release from Tester’s campaign said Tester was joined by his wife, Sharla, in Helena, where he formally filed his paperwork to appear on the June 5 primary ballot. “As a United States senator. I have had the humbling opportunity to defend the state that three generations of my family have called home,” Tester said in a press release. “Over the years, we’ve fought to protect the...
Several Republicans looking to unseat Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., blasted him Sunday night at the Blaine and Hill county Republican central committees' Lincoln-Reagan Dinner for not supporting the agenda of President Donald Trump. The slew of attacks against Tester, a farmer from west of Big Sandy, comes as he is running for a third term to the U.S. Senate. Tester is one of a handful of Democrats being targeted by Republicans in states Trump carried in 2016. State Sen. Al...
The St. Mary's Diversion should be part of President Donald Trump's proposed push to rebuild rural infrastructure, but done with responsible management of taxpayer dollars in mind U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., said Tuesday during a roundtable discussion with area agriculture producers at Havre Inn and Suites. "The president is talking about spending on rural infrastructure. I would put the St. Mary's at the top of the list in terms of the needs of rural Montana, but we...
Power has been restored to customers after an outage west of Havre. NorthWestern Energy spokesperson Butch Larcombe said this morning that the outage was reported at 7:40 a.m, and affected 465 NorthWestern Energy customers in Rudyard, Gildford, Hingham, Kremlin, Joplin and Inverness. Power was restored at about 9 a.m. A line from a transmission system was found on the ground about 5 miles west of Havre, Larcomb said, but crews can’t say for sure why it was on the ground, He added that reports of a downed line from that s...
U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., touted the accomplishments of the Republican-led Congress and sought to mobilize voters for the coming midterm election when he spoke at the Blaine and Hill county Republican central committees' annual Lincoln-Reagan dinner Sunday. Gianforte thanked local Republicans for their help in last year's special election for Montana's only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Gianforte, the retired founder of RightNow Technologies, won the...
Republican candidates for Blaine County sheriff, the state Legislature and the Montana Public Service Commission introduced themselves to voters Sunday night at the annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner hosted by the Blaine and Hill County Republican Central Committees. For $50 a ticket, people ate prime rib, took part in a live auction and heard from Political candidates at the event held in the Commercial Building on the Blaine County Fairgrounds. Blaine County Central Committee...
Dangerous conditions caused by abnormally severe winter weather conditions have prompted Fort Belknap Indian Community President Andy Werk Jr. to declare a state of emergency on the reservation Thursday. “The situation is creating considerable hardship for the members of the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation and the Fort Belknap Indian Community government,” the declaration says. The situation, the declaration says, has effected individuals, living conditions, travel and the economy of the reservation. The declaration says tha...
Montana State University-Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel said he plans to ask the Montana Board of Regents of Higher Education at their meeting in March to approve a proposal to bring the campus a step closer to having its own on-campus stadium. Kegel said he will ask that the Board allow the Northern Alumni Foundation to temporally lease the practice field by Cowan Hall, so that construction companies who have committed to donate their time and equipment can get started on...
A second Republican has filed with the Montana Secretary of State's office to run for the Montana House of Representatives in House District 27. Darrold Hutchinson, an aviator who farms north of Hingham, filed Feb. 9 to run for the seat, the 2018 candidate filing list on the Secretary of State's website says. Hutchinson will go up against former Fort Benton mayoral candidate Joshua Kassmier in the primary. Incumbent James O'Hara, R-Fort Benton, has opted not to run for...
Spring student enrollment at Montana State University-Northern has dropped, even as Montana State University in Bozeman continues to break enrollment records Information from the Registrar's office at Northern showed headcount for the spring 2018 semester was 1,119 students compared to 1,154 during the fall 2017 semester and 1,182 last spring. Potter said reasons students gave for not coming back in the fall include Montana's historically bad wildfire season this summer,...
People on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation should boil their water before using it until further notice, says a public notice posted Tuesday on the Facebook page of KHEW 88.5 F.M., the tribe’s radio station. Tribal Water Resources Interim Director Curtis Monteau could not be reached for further comment before print deadline today. “Boiled or bottled water should be used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth, washing dishes and food preparation until further notice,” the notice says. “Do not drink the water without boiling i...
Four Republicans have filed with the Montana Secretary of State’s office since January to run for the open district one seat on the Montana Public Service Commission. Mark Wicks of Inverness, Cory Mckinney of Great Falls, state Rep. Rob Cook, R-Shelby, and former state Rep. Randy Pinocci, R-Sun Belt, have all filed to appear on the ballot in June’s Republican primary. No Democrat, independent or third-party candidates had filed to run as of this morning, the candidate filing list on the Secretary of State’s website says. Cand...
3 p.m. Hill County Road Department said it has lifted the emergency-travel only recommendation in place for rural county roads. Noon: All county rural roads in Hill County are limited to emergency travel only until further notice due to decreased visibility caused by blowing snow and drifting, Hill County Road Supervisor Andy Hanson said. Hanson said he made the decision today after two or three vehicle accidents occurred on back county roads. He added other vehicles have also become stuck in the drifts. "When snow blows...
Crews from the Chippewa Cree Tribal Water Resources Department are working to repair two breaks in the reservation water system, as some homes on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation experience a lack of running water. “We have two crews out working on two breaks in the system, one in the the Bonneau area and one on Lower Road,” Chippewa Cree Tribal Chair Harlan Baker said in a post Monday on the Chippewa Cree Tribe of Rocky Boy Montana Facebook page, the tribe’s official Facebook page. A post Monday afternoon on the Faceboo...
After a month of being closed for cleaning and changing museum displays, H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board Chair Judi Dritshulas said the museum has reopened. The museum was closed Jan. 1 to Feb. 6, but is now open Tuesdays through Saturdays 1 to 5 p.m, she said. For the past few years the Clack Museum has closed in January and into February when visitor traffic has traditionally been low so board members and volunteers can clean the museum, make needed repairs and alter displays. This year will mark 100 years since the...
The Blaine and Hill County Republican Central Committees will kick off the midterm election season with their annual Lincoln-Reagan Dinner Sunday, Feb. 18, in the Commercial Building on the Blaine County Fairgrounds. Blaine County Republican Central Committee Chair Don Richman said the gathering is the largest fundraiser of the year for both committees and will consist of a prime rib dinner, a live auction and speeches from Republican candidates and officeholders. With the party now in control of both houses of Congress, the...
Backers of Havre's Bullhook Community Health Center and health care advocates throughout the country Tuesday rallied in support of community health centers and a legislative fix to keep them from losing 70 percent of their federal grant funding. The effort was part of a Day of Demonstration: #RedAlert4CHCs, an effort by community health centers and their supporters to raise awareness about the work the health centers do and the need to get Congress to restore a crucial stream...
Matt Montagino walked into Salvation Army's Sally Ann Thrift Store, 23 years ago, and he has been working there ever since. At the time, Montagino and his wife had just moved from Seattle to Havre and he was looking for a job. "My wife and I walked in here and she said 'you can do this,' and I found that I could," he said. Montagino said that, when he was growing up, his father was a hoarder, so he is used to having lots of items around. He said jokingly that organizing items...
Community health centers would receive $7 billion over two years as part of a larger Senate budget agreement set to be voted on today, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., said in a telephone press conference Wednesday. The budget agreement will keep the government funded after a short-term spending bill approved in January is set to expire tonight at midnight. The inclusion of funding for health centers in the bill, Tester said, is the product of weeks of negotiations. "After weeks of...
The Havre Police Department said in a post on their official Facebook page Thursday that because of heavy snowfall and dangerous road conditions, people should limit themselves to emergency travel only, "Because of the amount of accidents and vehicles getting stuck blocking roadways, the Havre Police is recommending emergency travel only. Please stay indoors unless it is emergency travel only," the Facebook post said. The recommendation comes as the National Weather Service in Great Falls issued a winter weather warning for H...
Two years after his commission’s proposal to reform Havre’s city government was rejected by voters, former chair of the Havre Study Commission said at Monday’s council meeting that the council should give his proposal another look as a means of generating additional city revenue. Dave Brewer, who chaired the Study Commission tasked with looking at changes to Havre’s city government, spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting. “We need to look at more avenues for getting revenues up,” said Brewer, husband of counci...
