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Jolee Lyn Landgraf of Havre, 29, was arrested Friday on a charge of deliberate homicide stemming from a head-on crash Jan. 28 that killed Loretta Park of Havre, 73. Investigating officers said she told them she deliberately swerved into oncoming traffic. Landgraf was being held in the Hill County Detention Center on $500,000 bond this morning. Court documents said Montana Highway Patrol was notified of the crash at about 12:22 p.m.. The trooper investigating found that it appeared the silver Dodge Dakota driven by Landgraf...
A settlement is finally on the way in a dispute some 150 years old, in one of the earliest lawsuits filed claiming the federal government had mishandled trust moneys it held for Native American tribes. "It was what I call FILO, first in, last out," Native American Rights Fund attorney Melody McCoy, who is representing the plaintiffs, said. McCoy said final approval in a settlement of a claim going back to land transfers in 1863 and 1892 was made in November 2020, and NARF is...
COVID-19 vaccinations are becoming more available in this part of north-central Montana, and are coming at a time when the number of cases are again starting to surge in the United States. Hill County health officials announced that at the vaccination clinic scheduled at Holiday Village Mall Thursday of next week, April 8, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine approved for youths 16 to 18 will be available, and shots will be administered to that age group from noon to 5. Hill County Health Officer Kim Larson said the vaccine became...
Local health officials say they are opening up clinics for COVID-19 vaccinations this week, ahead of the planned opening April 1, with some saying they have been doing so for a while. Alysia Mosness, director of infection prevention at Northern Montana Hospital, said the partners putting on a vaccination clinic Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Havre's Holiday Village Mall, are opening to everyone 18 and older, with walk-ins taken while vaccine supplies last. "As long as we...
The legislator representing Havre is bringing back a regular entry to the Legislature, a proposal to change how charter schools operate in the state. Rep. Ed Hill sponsored House Bill 633, which would create an independent commission that would review proposals to create charter schools. Under Hill's bill, the schools would qualify for state public funding if they met goals, but would not be regulated under the section of Montana law governing public education, Title 20. In...
Fort Belknap Indian Community reports a suspect is in custody in an investigation into a shooting Wednesday. FBI Public Affairs Specialist Sondra Yi Barker said this morning that Fort Belknap Tribal Police and the FBI are investigating the shooting. She said three people are in tribal custody, and she did not know the condition of the person who was shot. A release from Fort Belknap said the shooting took place about 4 p.m. on Bureau of Indian Affairs Route 11 east of the Lodge Pole area. A caller told officials they had...
The same week that a new variant of COVID-19 has been confirmed to be in Hill County, the chair of the county Board of Health this morning signed a mandate issued by the board last month requiring people to wear masks in public places in the county. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services issued a release late Wednesday afternoon saying Centers for Disease Control and Prevention notified DPHHS Wednesday and Thursday that testing had found 11 more cases of variant strains of COVID-19 in Montana including a case...
A high-speed chase involving Montana Highway Patrol, Havre Police Department and Hill County Sheriff’s Office went in and out of Havre before ending with flat tires on the van being pursued in a field northwest of Havre Tuesday evening. Details on the arrest were not available this morning, but the Hill County Detention Center inmate population list this morning showed Christopher Hammond being held without bail on felony charges of three counts of criminal endangerment and a count of criminal mischief and on $2,155 bond on c...
The three members of Montana's congressional delegation have introduced a bill to pay for work starting to rehabilitate the system that provides much of the water that runs through the Milk River each year and to study how much local users should pay for the rehabilitation. The St. Mary's Reinvestment Act, being introduced by Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Rep. Matt Rosendale, R-Mont., will authorize $52 million to rehabilitate the St. Mary's Diversion...
An unexpected snowstorm hit this part of the Hi-Line Wednesday, leaving some white on the ground from about Inverness to Chinook or a bit past, but it is expected to be gone by this afternoon with a slow warming trend bringing temperatures near or higher than 60 by Sunday before the next possible snowstorm early next week. Some heavy snow even fell in the afternoon, although with temperatures in the mid-40s none of that stuck. But the temperatures dropped a bit and more snow...
Part of the COVID-19 relief package passed on party lines by the Senate last weekend including something directly impacting the Hi-Line — restoration of full service to Amtrak’s long-distance trains, including the Empire Builder. Amtrak had cut days of service to long-distance routes and furloughed employees, citing loss of traffic due to the pandemic. The members of Montana’s congressional delegation all called on the passenger rail service to restore seven-day-a-week runs and put the employees back to work, and the bill pas...
Local legislators have confirmed that a town hall is set in Havre Saturday in the weekend of the transmittal break in the legislative session. State Rep. Ed Hill, R-Havre, responding to a query from Havre Daily News if he knew anything about a town hall Saturday, said he is hosting the event, starting at 1 p.m. in the in the former Dodge dealership location at 1720 U.S. Highway 2 East. Hill said he expects the meeting to last about two hours. “However long people want to talk,” he said. Wednesday was transmittal, the dat...
Havre City Council Monday unanimously approved a variance to allow a local group to put up 40 ribbons and signs downtown in memory of the 40 Hill County residents who have died from COVID-19-related causes. Will Rawn, a member of the group, said they had received a one-month approval from the Montana Department of Transportation to display the white ribbons and signs, and removed the signs Sunday but wanted to put them up downtown. He said the group back in December discussed...
The Montana House of Representatives unanimously sent to the Senate a resolution urging authorization of funding and work to repair "the lifeline of the Hi-Line." The bill, with primary sponsor Rep. Casey Knudsen, R-Malta, and 23 other sponsors including Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, and Sens. Mike Lang, R-Malta, and Russ Tempel, R-Chester, directs the state government to support funding for the repair and replacement of the St. Mary Diversion and Milk River Project...
Chouteau County Health Department announced Tuesday the county has adopted a mask policy, as vaccinations continue in the area and local health departments are starting to build lists for the next phase. The Chouteau County Health Department posted on its Facebook page that the county Board of Health Tuesday approved its proposed mask policy, which encourages county residents to wear cloth masks indoors and outdoors when social distancing is not possible. The policy also says Chouteau County businesses will be supported in th...
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester announced Tuesday that he has introduced legislation to restore cut service and furloughed employees that Amtrak cut last year after the pandemic hit, saying it would bring people back to work and restore Amtrak service to Montana’s Hi-Line communities by bringing back complete long-distance service to routes like the Empire Builder. “Long-distance Amtrak service creates good paying jobs on the Hi-Line, generates revenue for Montana’s frontier communities, and keeps folks connected with family and frien...
Despite a slight downward trend in the U.S. for the number of new COVID-19 cases confirmed and new COVID-19 related deaths, and a push for vaccinations, the nation hit a dark milestone Monday with more than half a million Americans dead due to the disease. Johns Hopkins University of Medicine reported on its COVID-19 online dashboard that the deaths in the U.S. stand at 500,617, about the number of Americans who died in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam war...
Hill County Health Department, which said this morning it still had openings for a Phase 1B COVID-19 vaccination clinic Thursday and for eligible people to call for an appointment, said this afternoon it wants to start building its list for the next phase. Health Director and Hill County Health Officer Kim Larson said the department is still in the 1B phase and cannot move to Phase 1C until the state authorizes that, but the department wants to start building its call list...
After what appeared to be a bump in the road was overcome, vaccination clinics are continuing in Hill County this week. Hill County Health Department Health Director and Hill County Health Officer Kim Larson issued a release this morning saying the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine was experiencing shipment delays, but shortly afterward updated that to day the shipment was coming. Larson said health officials will have 200 doses for first-dose appointments this week, and people who are...
State Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, said several bills on Native language education are moving through the Legislature including one of his bills that has a hearing in the House Education Committee today at 3 p.m. “There’s a whole host of bills that’s tied around this particular issue,” Windy Boy said this morning. The hearings are livestreamed and saved for future viewings on the Legislature’s website on a “Watch/Listen To Meetings” button under the “Legislative Meetings & Hearings are Streamed and Recorded” heade...
Havre's freshman Rep. Ed Hill, a Republican, had his first hearing on his first bill this week, with one person speaking in support and a number of people speaking against his proposal to change Montana's immunization laws, saying it would endanger the health of school children and other Montana residents and could lead to outbreaks of diseases eradicated in the state for decades. House Bill 332 was heard Wednesday in the House Education Committee, with Hill saying it is just...
While forecasters predict this part of Montana will move out of the bitter cold snap it has been under for more than a week, other parts of the country continue to reel from severe winter weather, although that also is expected to let up in upcoming days. The forecast for this part of north-central Montana calls for highs in the 20s today with lows tonight in the single digits in most of the region and up into the teens near Big Sandy. The predicted highs are nearly 50 degrees...
The Great Northern Fair Board Tuesday night heard a proposal for a one-day National Rodeo Association-sanctioned rodeo and had a short discussion on other events at the 2021 Great Northern Fair. The 2020 fair was canceled due to COVID-19, although Hill County 4-H held limited events that week on the Great Northern Fairgrounds and a main food staple of the fair, the Havre Lions Club Pronto Pup booth, held a drive-through event with cars lined up off the fairgrounds during Festival Days weekend in September. Tuesday, Dwayne Oza...
Even with declining numbers of cases of COVID-19 in the region and vaccinations rolling out, the COVID-19 pandemic is still hitting local schools, with Chester-Joplin-Inverness Schools announcing Monday it was going to online remote education from today through Feb. 23. The school district said in a message on its website and Facebook page that the closure is due to a confirmed case of coronavirus in the schools and Kindergarten through 12th grade would go to online learning....
The cold in this part of north-central Montana just keeps getting colder, with no break expected until Monday. The cold already has been beating earlier forecasts, with Monday, forecasters are predicting highs in the teens with lows around zero. And the cold is getting colder than forecasts predicted earlier in the week. National Weather Service this morning in its previous 12-hour report listed Havre as hitting minus 33 degrees fahrenheit this morning. Monday, Weather Service predicted a low last night between minus 15 and...
