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A winter weather advisory is in effect for a region from the Rocky Mountain Front as far east as Liberty County, with a special warning for parts of Hill and Chouteau counties. The weather is predicted to stay chilly but no more local precipitation is expected till Friday night, with a chance of snow Saturday night through Sunday and snow likely Sunday night and Monday. The advisory that includes Liberty County, in effect through 6 tonight, says 1 inch to 4 inches of snow could fall with winds gusting as high as 30 mph to 40...
People have a chance to see a different approach to teaching estate planning with Wildflower Reflections about Estate Planning set for two sessions Wednesday. “If you think estate planning is a boring topic, then you haven’t been to one of Marsha Goetting’s presentations,” a release about the presentation said. ‘Goetting has enhanced her presentions by combining her appreciation of Montana wildflowers with her desire to help you remember strategies that can help you achieve your estate planning goals.” Goetting, a professor...
Chinook High School went into “secure in place” status Tuesday after administration heard a report of a student who said they had a gun. The status was announced in a Facebook post Tuesday, which later was updated to say the student had turned themself in to police after school and the school had returned to normal status. Chinook Public Schools Superintendent Fred Hofman said Wednesday that no gun was ever found and no one ever saw anyone with a gun. He said the school went into a “secure in place” status Tuesday after a...
Much-needed precipitation finally hit the area, including some snow Saturday and Sunday, although probably not enough to make much of a dent in the drought conditions here. The reporting station at the Havre City-County Airport recorded an inch-and-a-third of precipitation from Friday through Sunday along with colder temperature. Although Havre did not receive several inches of snow as was in early forecasts, snow did fall late Saturday and Sunday, although Weather Service reports only a trace recorded. In Havre, the low hit...
The autumn weather this region has been seeing the last few weeks is expected to turn to some cooler temperatures with rain and snow over the weekend, and the winter forecast released today by National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration predicts a good chance that will continue through January. NOAA's National Weather Service put a red-flag fire warning in effect for today east of the Continental Divide including Blaine, Chouteau, Hill and Liberty counties, due to hi...
Popular country music band BlackHawk will be playing a concert at the Great Northern Fairgrounds Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Bigger Better Barn, with part of the proceeds going to the Montana Association of Chiefs of Police to fund their activities throughout the coming year. BlackHawk lead vocalist Henry Paul said in an interview Tuesday that he's happy for the opportunity to play in Havre, along with other Montana locations, during this year's tour. "It'll be pretty exciting...
The weather in this part of Montana has been a classic fall for temperatures lately, with brisk mornings and afternoon temperatures in the 60s and 70s and lows in the 30s, but the forecast for the weekend calls for some cooler temperatures and a bit of rain and even possibly snow. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees National Weather Service, is putting out its latest long-range prediction Thursday, a highly anticipated look at what the winter might bring. The last week has seen cool highs...
In a joint release printed on the Havre Public Schools website, the school district and Havre Police Department said an incident that led to a security action at Lincoln-McKinley Primary School was due to a police department training exercise held at the school. The release said the school was put into a lock out and hold-in-place Friday, Sept. 30, after school officials discovered a door had been propped open, allowing access to the building. School district officials coordinated with the Havre Police Department and determin...
Candidates in some local contested races have agree to participate in a candidate forum Monday starting at 5 p.m. in Hensler Auditorium. A candidate who has to travel a fair distance to the forum and be on the road early Tuesday requested the 5 p.m. start time. The Havre Democrats have announced they will stream the forum live on their Facebook page and it should be available there for people to watch later, as well. For Senate District 14 that includes Havre and western Hill County, Liberty County, Chouteau County and the no...
Authorities announced that two people have been arrested in connection with a string of vandalism incidents in Blaine and Chouteau counties that caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage and is likely linked to the shooting of one or more deer, all occurring late Aug. 17 or early Aug. 18. Jasper Wendland, 19, and Devon Nelson, 18, both were served warrants out of both Blaine and Chouteau counties, Blaine County Sheriff John Colby said in a release this afternoon. Colby...
As the numbers of reported COVID-19 cases dwindle in some parts of the area and surge in others, people are being urged to get vaccinated or boosters for COVID, and influenza and to get the booster designed to fight the omicron variant of COVID-19. New COVID cases have continued to be reported in the area, although the number of new hospitalizations and deaths have gone down in some counties but increased in others. The state case map updated Friday listed 25 new cases in the previous week in Chouteau County, with 34 active c...
Fort Belknap Indian Community announced it has received a $10 million boost in its effort to create a wellness center on the reservation. Fort Belknap said in a release a north-central Montana health care consortium, led by the Fort Belknap Indian Community and Bear Paw Development Corp., was awarded a $10 million grant from USDA Emergency Rural Health Care. The new grant is on top of an $11 million dollar allocation received from the Fort Belknap Indian Community Council’s American Rescue Plan Act, State and Local Fiscal R...
This part of north-central Montana received some much-needed rain over the weekend, but not nearly enough. The system that dropped rain primarily Thursday through Sunday did not push much precipitation this far north. National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Brusda in Great Falls said the heaviest rains fell farther south, in Great Falls and to the east of there. He said the Lewistown area and places like Stanford and Hobson and Denton received the most, with some locations in that region receiving more than 2 inches. He sa...
In a press conference last week, Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., talked on a variety of subjects including how the agricultural season turned out and on legislation he is sponsoring to increase competition in that industry. Tester, the only active farmer in the U.S. Senate, and who farms west of Big Sandy, said the harvest this year wasn't the best, for him and for many other Montana ag producers, but it could have been worse. "Prices are decent," Tester said, adding, "Production,...
Sen. Jon Tester said in a press conference last week that Congress has passed some of the most significant legislation in decades, legislation he said will benefit people and their children and grandchildren "literally" for generations to come. Tester said the "Inflation Reduction Act" will pay down the national debt and lower costs across the board, provide working families with real relief, and ease inflationary pressures for the long term. "This bill cuts our national debt...
Democratic candidate for state House District 28 Paul Tuss announced this week he picked up a key endorsement from a local union. A press release said the local Teamsters union endorsed Tuss in his campaign for HD 28, which includes the city of Havre and a small area outside the city limits. Local No. 0016 of The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, which includes area railroad workers, is encouraging their members and area residents to support Tuss in this November's...
Fort Belknap Indian Community and three conservation organizations filed a motion to intervene Monday against an attempt to overturn a ruling on a decision about conducting mining exploration in the Little Rocky Mountains south of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation. “There is substantial history establishing the detrimental effects created by previous mining activity in the Little Rockies,” President of the Fort Belknap Indian Community Jeffrey Stiffarm said in a release announcing the intervention . “Environmental impacts are b...
Hill County Park Board this week approved a request through Havre Trails to put a memorial bench halfway up Mount Otis in Beaver Creek Park in memory of decades-long photographer and community volunteer Steve Helmbrecht. Helmbrecht died of cancer Oct. 21, 2021, at age 70. Beaver Creek Park Superintendent Chad Edgar recommended the board approve the request. “It’s a great place for a bench there, and one of Steve Helmbrecht’s favorite places to take pictures,” he said. The board approved the request unanimously, althoug...
Editor’s note: This version corrects the size of the fire in the subheadline. Work on the Eagle Creek Fire continues with the firefighting perimeter continuing to grow. The perimeter was estimated at 40 percent Sunday and the Inciweb reporting site Tuesday reported the perimeter 60 percent contained. The site has reported the size of the fire at 7,225 acres since Sunday evening. Incident Commander Robert Smith said Tuesday the land crews are primarily working on the edges t...
Hill County Commissioner Diane McLean, running as a Republican for re-election, talked about numerous issues and projects while attending a North Central Pachyderm meeting Friday. She named many projects and issues, some that started before she was elected commissioner and some since she was elected, some involving federal COVID assistance money and some not. Finishing those projects is one of the reasons she decided to run for re-election, she said. "I think I need to try to...
Hill County Commissioner Diane McLean, running for re-election as a Republican, spoke to the North Central Pachyderms Friday about her candidacy. "I will try to make a difference," McLean said. She faces Democrat Sheri Williams and independent Les Odegard in the general election in November. McLean started her presentation talking about a psalm she read Friday in her morning devotions, saying she is a conservative Christian. "I truly believe God's word is the only way, it is...
A post on the InciWeb fire data website at 6:14 p.m. Sunday said firefighters are continuing to make progress, with the estimated containment doubled by that time to 40 percent. The estimated size of the fire has gone down from previous estimates, with the estimate Sunday evening at 7,225 acres, Estimates Thursday and Friday had gone as high as 8,500 acres. The InciWeb post said the fire burned actively within the fire perimeter Sunday, most actively in the southwestern...
The Eagle Creek Fire that started on Mount Baldy in the Bear Paw Mountains has grown to an estimated 8,200 acres, Hill County Disaster and Emergency Service Coordinator Amanda Frickel said this morning, and a full attack on the fire is planned for today. Frickel said the fire is estimated to be 60 percent contained off of Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation and 30 percent contained on the reservation. She said about 150 people are fighting the fire, including using two airplanes...
The sweltering heat the region has been experiencing is expected to continue today, with record-breaking highs predicted and a Red Flag fire advisory and heat warnings in effect, but cooler temperatures are expected starting Thursday. Today, highs in the upper 90s to 100s are predicted, with Havre in the forecast at 9 a.m. expected to hit 101 degrees, which would break the record of 99 set in 1998. Big Sandy was forecast to hit 103 degrees, with Hays and Harlem expected to...
People are invited to a presentation Thursday at North Central Senior Citizens Center to learn about pollinators, why they are important and what people can do to help them. Emma Korntheuer of the Hill County Conservation District said her presentation will be fairly short and sweet but cover important topics. She said she hopes in the latter part of the presentation to get some discussion going and answer any questions anyone has. “It’s important because pollinators are having a little bit of a hard time right now, esp...
