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This story originally was filed Oct. 24, 2021. Fort Belknap Indian Community Council reported in a Facebook post on its page that a police chase that started near Hays in the early morning Saturday ended in a fatal shooting by Fort Belknap police. The post says Blaine County sheriff's office personnel responded to assist and the Federal Bureau of Investigation responded to investigate. Watch for more here and in Monday's edition of Havre Daily News....
4:19 p.m. A statement from the state fire marshal appears to contradict what Havre Daily News was told earlier today, that the Jaycees haunted house at the Great Northern Fairgrounds and the escape room there had been canceled due to orders from the state fire marshal's office. Fairgrounds manager Frank English said this morning he was told by the county to shut the operations down due to fire code violations. Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson said this afternoon that Fire Marshal Dirk Johnson said in an email that the...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Wednesday expanding the use of boosters for COVID-19 vaccinations in eligible populations, including an emergency use authorization for using a different vaccine as a booster than that with which people originally were vaccinated. “Today’s actions demonstrate our commitment to public health in proactively fighting against the COVID-19 pandemic,” acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, M.D., said in a release issued by FDA. “As the pandemic continues to impact the country...
Blaine County has had another COVID-19-related death, bringing the county's total from the start of the pandemic to 25. Blaine County Health Department reported the death in its update Tuesday, also reporting two newly confirmed cases of the disease from Friday through Tuesday, bringing its number of active cases to 83 with five active hospitalizations. The death brings the total in the region since the delta variant-driven surge took off in this part of the state August to...
After 20 months of closure to nonessential travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the northern and southern borders of the United States will open to vaccinated people in November. That follows Canada opening its border to vaccinated travelers in early August and intense pressure from Montana leaders for the U.S. to reciprocate. Montana Sens. Jon Tester, a Democrat, and Steve Daines, a Republican, and Republican Rep. Matt Rosendale as...
Montana Actors' Theatre had a "wonderful" weekend with the return of its Death By Chocolate, Executive Artistic Director Jay Pyette said this morning. "There really is no other word to explain it," he said. The fundraiser, the acting troupe's biggest annual fundraiser including auctioning off sponsorship of its plays, was the most successful fundraiser so far, raising nearly $90,000. The event was canceled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and Pyette said some adjustments...
Hill County Health Department has reported another COVID-19-related death in the county, bringing the total number of deaths to 56, and Fort Belknap Indian Community has enacted another partial shutdown. The Hill County Health Department report, issued Friday, also listed 22 new cases confirmed Thursday and Friday, bringing the total number of active cases in the county to 191 with 14 active hospitalizations. Fort Belknap reported Friday five new cases, 51 active with one active hospitalization. Its numbers are included in...
The local delta-variant driven surge has caused another COVID-19-related death. Hill County Health Department reported the death Wednesday in its COVID-19 update. The death brings the Hill County total to 55. It is the second death in October. The update also reports 40 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed for the county, bringing the total of active cases in Hill County to 203. 10 Hill County residents were hospitalized Wednesday. Hill County has seen 123 cases reported...
A Havre woman has pleaded guilty in state District Court in Havre to a homicide charge stemming from a head-on crash east of Havre in January. Jolee Lyn Landgraf, born in 1992, pleaded guilty under a plea agreement to a felony count of vehicular homicide while under the influence stemming from the crash that killed Loretta Park of Havre, 73. Judge Olivia Rieger of Dawson County, who is presiding over the case, set sentencing for Nov. 22. The plea agreement does not say what sentence the prosecution will recommend. Under...
Hill County Health Department reported Friday that the county had suffered another COVID-19-related death, bringing the county total to 54. With 32 newly confirmed cases, the total number of active cases in the county was 168 with 13 active hospitalizations. The cumulative total in the county was 2,928 cases. Hill County's next update will be released this evening. Blaine County's update Friday reported 24 newly confirmed cases with two active hospitalizations. The county has...
Officials report two more people have died COVID-19-related deaths in the area over the weekend. Chouteau County had another death confirmed Thursday, and Hill County confirmed another in its report for Saturday through Monday. Rocky Boy Health Department, which reports numbers also reported on either Hill County's or Chouteau County's reports, depending on where the person lived, also reported Monday a COVID-19-reported death occurring since its Sept. 23 update. That brings...
An Empire Builder derailment just west of Joplin about 4 p.m. Saturday killed three people, hospitalized several others and injured dozens of people. Amtrak reported the westbound train, with two engines and 10 cars, was carrying 141 people and had 16 Amtrak employees on board. Eight of the cars derailed with some tipping over. Gov. Greg Gianforte said at a press conference in Chester Sunday afternoon that, at that time, all passengers had been accounted for and had left...
A high-speed chase that started in Havre Thursday afternoon and involved five law enforcement agencies ended in a field south of Chester. Havre Police Capt. Aaron Wittmer said the driver of the vehicle, Franklin James Buck III of Valier, 51, faces multiple felony and misdemeanor charges including driving under the influence of drugs, criminal endangerment and leaving the scene of an accident. Wittmer said the chase started about 1:13 p.m. Thursday on the 600 Block of Fifth Street and went “everywhere” incluiding Highland Par...
A Havre High School teacher is one of the plaintiffs asking the courts to overturn a law passed this year by the Legislature that restricts Election Day registration. Havre High band teacher Cullen Hinkle is one of the plaintiffs, citing his need to use same-day registration in the 2020 election or not be able to vote. The other plaintiffs are Montana Federation of Public Employees, Montana American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations, Montana Association...
Montana State University-Northern is wrapping up a week of events celebrating homecoming with a full slate of events Friday and Saturday. The Montana State University-Northern Alumni Foundation has been accepting registrations all week and took over trivia night at Old Station Brewery Wednesday to celebrate Homecoming week. The event included special categories with Northern history with prizes for the top three teams. Early bird registration is today from 3-5 p.m. in the...
Hill County has had another COVID-19 related death, bringing the total to 52 in the county. Hill County Health Department reported the death in its update Tuesday, along with 23 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the county to 147 active cases with six active hospitalizations. Sept. 21 last year, the county had seen three deaths and had 33 active cases and two active hospitalizations. The county health department also reported a COVID-19-related death in its report for the weekend issued Monday and also reported a...
Local residents heard an update on county plans to upgrade the Milk River Levee so it meets Army Corps of Engineers standards including a plan to create a new funding district to pay for the work. Jeremiah Theys of Great West Engineering, the company working on the project for the Hill County government, said the estimated cost of the project is $2.5 million with the county already committing $850,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds to start working on it. He said a proposal to fund the project is to create a new district,...
Hill County has suffered another COVID-19-related death, bringing the confirmed death toll to 51 residents of the county, Hill County Health Department reported the death in its update Monday evening, also reporting 63 new cases confirmed from Saturday through Monday. The department reported Hill County had 136 active cases with seven active hospitalizations due to COVID-19 with 2,678 cases confirmed since the first case was confirmed in Hill County in March 2020. Hill County’s one case and a sole case in Liberty County w...
Hill County Health Department reported Friday the county has suffered another COVID-19-related death, bringing the county to 50 deaths since the disease was first confirmed in Montana. The update on the state tracking map this morning reports Montana has seen a total of 1,887 deaths so far. That includes the Hill County total and 24 deaths in Blaine County, seven in Chouteau County and one in Liberty County. The news comes as Pfizer announced this morning that tests have shown that the vaccine it and its German partner...
Havre Public Works reported a major water line break was repaired Wednesday evening and outdoor water use could resume. Havre residents were asked to restrict their water use and not use outdoor water at all Wednesday morning when a main line from the city water treatment plant broke. Havre Public Works issued a release at 11:33 a.m. Wednesday asking people to limit water use to indoor only while the break was repaired. Pubic Works Director Dave Peterson later said in a Facebook post that the break was in the 16-inch main lin...
As COVID-19 numbers continue to surge locally and statewide, officials are urging people to work to protect themselves and others to slow the spread of the virus that causes the disease, including by getting vaccinated. Hill County Health Department reported Tuesday 35 new cases confirmed in the county, the highest number to date by the tracking of Havre Daily News. The previous highest one-day total for Hill County was reported Oct. 8, 2020, with 34 new cases, 117 active and one active hospitalization. Hill County Health Dep...
The delta variant-driven COVID-19 surge continues in the area, with 107 new cases reported in Blaine, Chouteau, Hill and Liberty counties Monday. And the surge continues to impact communities including, as it has from the start, local schools. Rocky Boy Schools announced Sunday that due to COVID-19 cases confirmed in people associated with the district that it was starting remote learning Monday running through Sept. 23. That comes as Hays-Lodge Pole Schools returned to...
A somber nation spent Saturday holding events, nationally and locally, remembering the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, that killed nearly 3,000 people and changed the country and the world. Terrorists hijacked four airliners Sept. 11, 2001, crashing two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, one into the Pentagon in Washington and a fourth, believed to be targeting the White House or U.S. Capitol, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers and crew fought the hijackers. President Joe...
Hill County Health Department reported Thursday another COVID-19-related death, bringing the total in Hill County to 49. The report comes as the delta variant-driven surge brings more new cases in the area and the number of active cases rises throughout this area because the number of new cases is higher than the number of people meeting the criteria to be considered recovered. Hill County now lists 105 active cases, while Blaine County, which listed 13 new cases Thursday, has 54 active cases. The number of active cases in...
Montana Actors' Theater suffered some major setbacks to productions with the COVID-19 pandemic, but is back full-throttle. After holding its summer youth camps and doing a semi-youth production version of the delayed "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," originally planned to be produced near the end of its regular season last year, the acting troupe premieres this weekend its highly anticipated production of "Mamma Mia!" and is holding auditions for another production the...
