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Programs at Aaniih Nakoda College on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation continue to move forward in health and science, technology, engineering and mathematics - STEM - fields, with two programs over the summer ending recently. A release said that one program, the Young Medicine Movement is a multi-level, innovative approach to supporting and developing Aaniiih and Nakoda scholars from the reservation via an educational pathway and tailored support for rising juniors in high...
A local group that promotes hiking and biking and improving local trails is holding its annual Summer Brewfest this weekend in Pepin Park. Havre Trails' brewfest is set to run from 2 to 7 p.m. This is the fifth year Havre Trails, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, has held the fundraiser. Proceeds have gone to its work to improve local hiking and biking including creating the Rotary Canyon Loop Trail north of Bear Paw Lake, also called Second Lake and the new Brough's Coulee...
Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen will host Wednesday her department’s third monthly virtual community discussion on education legislation passed during the 68th legislative session, focusing this month on a controversial bill allowing parents of children with special needs to be reimbursed with public funds when sending children to private education. The Legislature passed the bill, House Bill 393, and it was signed into law buy Gov. Greg Gianforte along with two charter school bills. OPI’s onl...
After a driver led law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase through downtown Havre Tuesday morning, the Havre Police Department is looking for information anyone has for the investigation. A press release said that officers attempted to contact at about 10:24 Tuesday morning the driver of a white Dodge Charger that is suspected of being involved in an ongoing theft and criminal mischief investigation. The release said the driver fled in the vehicle and led officers on a...
National Weather Service predicts a minor break in the heat today, but it is expected to be back in full force Thursday and Friday, before cooling off a bit again. After temperatures in the 90s — Havre hit 95 Monday and Weather Service reported it was at 97 degrees Tuesday at 3:52 p.m. while this article was being written — the forecast called for a relatively mild high of 85 today, but breaking 100 Thursday. The highs for Havre and Big Sandy for Thursday were predicted at 101 degrees, with highs expected to be in the mid to...
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte issued a release Tuesday encouraging people to file for the property tax rebate issued by the Montana Legislature this year. Montana had a massive — estimated at $2.5 billion — surplus in revenue this year. State budget analysts said the income tax growth was likely due to large influxes of money from the federal government in its COVID-19 relief funding and population growth including high-income people moving to the state. Gianforte said his administration prioritized property tax relief in the s...
Hill County Health Department reports that a harmful algal bloom has been detected at Beaver Creek Reservoir, also called First Lake. This is the third reported sighting in the area, with a sighting reported at Bailey Reservoir in southern Hill County June 28 and at Dry Fork Reservoir in northwestern Blaine County July 16. The Montana Department of Environmental quality has given Beaver Creek Reservoir a “Caution” status, with no status given for the Bailey Reservoir sighting and the Dry Fork Reservoir sighting listed as pend...
West Nile virus has been confirmed in a Hill County mosquito pool, Hill Clounty Health Department reports, with the county joining Blaine County as an area with the virus confirmed. No cases in humans or horses had been reported in the counties as of the filing of this story. Hill County Health Department warned in a release that people need to take care to avoid the potentially fatal illness caused by the virus “Remember, the best way to protect yourself from West Nile virus is to prevent mosquito bites,” a release from the...
Hill County Health Department reports that a harmful algal bloom has been detected at Beaver Creek Reservoir, also called First Lake. People are warned to use caution at the reservoir, and any time they detect a possible harmful algal bloom to avoid exposure to the potential harmful substance and to keep pets out of the areas where they see algae, and to make sure children don't get into the water. Harmful algal blooms, commonly called blue-green algae, can potentially be...
A highly decorated U.S. Army private who died serving his country in Viet Nam is one of the service members being honored this weekend at the 10th Annual Veterans Memorial Softball Classic in Belgrade. Havre's Pfc. Mark Hinkle, who died of wounds sustained in combat in 1965, is the soldier the Army team is playing in honor of this year. This is the 10th year for the classic, which invites the state's best high school softball players to come together to showcase their talents...
U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development in Montana is touting $20 million in investments it has made to improve rural health care in the state, with more than half of that here in this part of north-central Montana and another providing services in this region. Rural Development State Director Kathleen Williams announced in a release last week a total of $20 million in recent investments in 11 public organizations, non-profits, and rural health care facilities in Montana through the Emergency Rural Health Care grant...
A hearing scheduled for Monday in a case involving local businessman Tom Patrick was canceled after the Hill County Attorney dismissed the case against him pending further investigation. Patrick, owner of Patrick Construction, is accused of pointing a gun July 21 at another contractor and BNSF officials who were on Patrick's property at the site of a freight train derailment about 8 miles east of Havre. He was arrested on suspicion of felony charges of criminal endangerment,...
A hearing scheduled for this afternoon for local businessman Tom Patrick was canceled after the Hill County Attorney dismissed the case against him pending further investigation. Patrick, owner of Patrick Construction, is accused of pointing a gun July 21 at another contractor and BNSF officials who were on Patrick’s property at the site of a freight train derailment about 8 miles east of Havre. He was arrested on suspicion of felony charges of criminal endangerment, and two counts of assault with a weapon, a court d...
A historic deal more than a century in the making requiring the federal government to ensure members of the Fort Belknap Indian Community have water — and ensures water is available to everyone along the Milk River — took another major step forward Thursday. The Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act, led by Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Steve Daines, R-Mont., unanimously was passed by the U.S. Senate as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act, a release from Tester’s office said. The Fort...
The Rocky Boys Annual Celebration starts at Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation this week, with events for youths and adults, competitors and spectators alike, starting with the Youth Rodeo Wednesday, Rocky Boy Rodeo Team Roping Jackpot and Youth Powwow Thursday, and the main powwow and rodeo starting Friday and running through Sunday. The annual celebration brings thousands of people to the area from around the nation and across borders, as well. Some special guests are involved...
Montana Actors’ Theatre is bringing a children’s classic to the stage this week and next with its youth production of “The Velveteen Rabbit.” The Margery Williams story asks children — and adults — what it means to be “real.” A child’s new toy, a velveteen rabbit stuffed full of sawdust with ears lined with sateen, is sad that his owner wants to play more with his modern, mechanical toys, and asks the oldest and wisest toy in the nursery, what it means to be real. He is told that when a child loves a toy for a long time,...
With dry heat following a wet winter and spring, burn bans are going into effect and this region is in a Red Flag fire warning today until 9 p.m. At 12:01 a.m. today Hill County implemented a burn ban, prohibiting people in Hill County from open burning until the ban is rescinded, and the City of Havre is implementing water restrictions. Under the burn ban no campfires will be allowed and no burn permits will be issued, but barbecuing is allowed provided all safety...
A prominent Havre businessman was arrested on felony charges Friday at a derailment site where his own company had equipment. An incident report from Hill County Sheriff’s Office said Tom Patrick, 70, was taken into custody without incident. Patrick’s company, Patrick Construction, was at the site working on the 11-car derailment that happened about 8 miles east of Havre Friday afternoon. Havre Daily News employees did not see Patrick Construction equipment at the site Saturday afternoon. BNSF had not responded by pri...
The children at a Havre-Hill County Library Story Time last week had a special guest reader, when First Lady Susan Gianforte read "Sleep Train" by Jonathan London. Gianforte is traveling the state talking to and working with local libraries to promote the statewide access to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. She said she has now been to 33 counties out of Montana's 56, and it has been going well, "The affiliates have been really receptive, and they've been interested in...
An agreement more than a century in the making to settle water rights issues and provide water to Fort Belknap Indian Community — and to people all along the Milk River — Wednesday when the Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act passed out of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The federal doctrine involving tribal water rights — The Winters Doctrine — started in Fort Belknap with the lawsuit Winters vx. United States, in which the U.S, Supreme Court established the doctrine that the federal government...
Editor’s note: A version of this story was posted on the Havre Daily News website Wednesday morning. The Blaine County coroner has released the name of the person who died early Monday morning when she was struck by a vehicle on U.S. Highway 2 while next to her broken-down truck. Blaine County Sheriff/Coroner John Colby said the victim was Angela Huschka of East Helena, 59. Montana Highway Patrol reports Huschka was struck at 2:03 a.m. Monday while trying to flag down vehicles around her truck, which was broken down, near m...
A proposed budget for Amtrak in the House Committee on Appropriations has raised some alarms, including the CEO of the national passenger rail service saying cut from the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations will not work. “The funding levels proposed in the House FY24 transportation appropriations bill for Amtrak and FRA rail programs will stop the advancement of passenger rail in its tracks,” Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner said in a statment. “If the proposed levels become law, Amtrak will have to radically reduce or suspend servi...
With the Havre Daily printing out-of-town until its press is again operational, its ownership has decided not to print Tuesdays and Thursdays until the Havre press is again running. The decision was relayed to Havre Daily after a story printed in Wednesday’s edition, saying the paper would print offsite Monday through Friday, already had been sent to Kalispell for printing. Havre Daily News Publisher Don Thoma thanked the paper’s readers for their patience and understanding over the last 15 months while Havre Daily wor...
An agreement to settle water rights issues and provide water to Fort Belknap Indian Community — and to people all along the Milk River — decades in the making took a major step forward this week when the Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act was heard in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. “What this water settlement is going to mean for the people in Fort Belknap and in surrounding communities is clean drinking water, water for the future, like we ta...
With the Havre Daily printing out-of-town until its press is again operational, its ownership has decided not to print Tuesdays and Thursdays until the Havre press is again running. The decision was relayed to Havre Daily after a story printed in Wednesday’s edition, saying the paper would print offsite Monday through Friday, already had been sent to Kalispell for printing. Havre Daily News Publisher Don Thoma thanked the paper’s readers for their patience and understanding over the last 15 months while Havre Daily wor...
