News you can use
News you can use
Sorted by date Results 576 - 600 of 3885
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks announced it is looking for applicants to be on an advisory committee for a first-ever official fisheries management plan for Fresno Reservoir west of Havre. The deadline to apply to be on the advisory committee is Feb. 22. The release said FWP will review applications and select a five-member committee to serve in an advisory capacity to to agency to develop guidelines for the Fresno Fisheries Management Plan. Ideally, the advisory committee...
The Hill County Democrats Central Committee elected new leadership Monday, selecting Krystal Steinmetz to take the place of Jacob Bachmeier as chair and Cullen Hinkle to replace Susan Somers as vice chair. “I am very excited to hand the central committee off to a very competent, passionate, energetic, and hardworking leader,” Bachmeier said in a press release. “Krystal has many great ideas on where to take the central committee. I am thrilled to watch the central committee grow and head in an exciting new direction under...
Following some major snowstorms in October and November, winter took a break in this part of north-central Montana, but it is back and appears here to stay for a while. Snow fell over the weekend and temperatures plummeted, going from a high of 64 degrees Tuesday to a low reported at the Havre City-County Airport of minus 19 at 11:51 p.m. Sunday. And National Weather Service has recorded 5.5 inches of snow for the month at the airport, and the forecast does not call for...
Northern Montana Health Care announced this morning that, starting Monday, it will allow some visitors into Northern Montana Hospital. Visitors have been restricted due to the COVID-19 pandemic since March. The visitation will not include COVID-19 patients except under special circumstances and visitation is not yet allowed in Northern Montana Care Center. A release from Northern Montana Health Care said visitors will have to enter the hospital through the second floor emergency room doors and visitors will be screened upon e...
The Montana Supreme Court issued an opinion this week affirming previous decisions and awarding more than $460,000 in damages and legal fees to a Montana State University-Northern dean in a case where Randy Bachmeier alleged he was sexually harassed by a university provost and then retaliated against when he complained about the harassment. "This case has gone on seven long years," John Heenan, Bachmeier's attorney, said in a statement provided to Havre Daily News. "We are...
The winter weather advisory issued by National Weather Service for the area is still in effect and the predicted temperatures are dropping a bit. The region is in a winter weather advisory from today through 5 p.m. Sunday, with 2-4 inches of snow accumulation expected on the plains in Hill and Blaine counties. Liberty County to the Rocky Mountain Front is expected to see 2-5 inches of snow accumulation, but Chouteau County is part of an advisory that runs into Cascade and Ferg...
Old Man Winter really hasn't been seen much in north-central Montana since November, but it appears he is back and likely will stay a while. After a rainstorm Tuesday temperatures dropped and snow was falling in the area this morning, with more in the forecast and temperatures expected to continue to drop. "This is an appetizer for what we are going to get," National Weather Service meteorologist Francis Kredensor in Great Falls said this morning. After a high of 64 degrees...
More COVID-19 vaccine is rolling into the area and more clinics are being scheduled, while health officials continue to warn people they need to continue efforts to slow the spread of the disease until enough people are vaccinated to reduce the risk. Blaine County Health Department issued a press release Monday that it, in partnership with the One Health-Sweet Clinic and the Aanniiih Nakoda College Nursing Program held its first community COVID-19 vaccination clinic, vaccinating 235 people who qualified for the Phase 1B...
The Great Falls-Billings Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church is closing a more-than-a-century-old school in Hays due to staffing shortages with the hopes of reopening it a year later. A letter from Bishop Michael Warfel to parents, parishioners and community members of St. Paul Mission Grade School, forwarded to Havre Daily News, says the school will stay open through May but not reopen next fall. “Our hope is we can reorganize the school and reopen in the following year,” Warfel wrote in the letter. The diocese had not res...
COVID-19 numbers in the region both show success in slowing the spread of the disease in some areas but how fragile that situation is in others. While some counties are reporting few new cases and dropping numbers of active cases, surges in other areas are raising numbers and shutting down schools. Dodson Public Schools Superintendent Gary Weitz said this morning that the Dodson school board approved in a special Zoom meeting Saturday keeping the schools there closed until...
In the midst of COVID-19 vaccine being distributed for Phase 1B of the state rollout and local reservations also moving forward with vaccinations, a local school has had to shut down due to an outbreak of the disease. Dodson Public Schools Superintendent Gary Weitz said that Tuesday, the same day that 35 school staff members received their second dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine, about a dozen cases of COVID-19 related to the school district were reported. That number...
A major wind storm blew through Montana from the West Coast Wednesday, causing some extremely high wind gusts and some major damage in the Havre area. The wind pulled the roof off of the Vande Bogart Library at Montana State University-Northern and slammed the roof off a building on U.S. Highway 2 being used by Big Equipment Co. into power lines, causing a power outage. NorthWestern Energy - the power outage webpage for which is not available due to the company being unable...
Vaccination planning in the area continue to move forward, with Havre Public Schools’ employees set for vaccination this week and vaccinations for area veterans to start next week with the opening of the new location of the Merril Lundman Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic in the Holiday Village Mall. Schedules had to be revised after Gov. Greg Gianforte last week announced major revisions to the vaccination schedule, increasing the age-range allowed under Schedule 1B from 75 and older to 70 and older and a...
Although numbers of new daily confirmed cases of COVID-19 seem to be staying much lower than during the surge from September through early November, cases are still rolling in including in school systems. North Star School District, which put North Star Elementary School in Gildford on remote learning Thursday while tracing and planning in response to a confirmed case, announced Sunday that another case connected to the school was confirmed that day and the school would stay on remote learning through this week. “We are m...
A release issued by Havre Interim-Superintendent of Public Schools Craig Mueller this morning said the county has not yet met requirements to move to a four-day in-class schedule for Havre schools and the return of grades kindergarten through five will be delayed. A proposal recommended by Mueller Dec. 8 and approved by the Havre school board in a 4-3 vote included having K-five students go to four-day in-class learning if certain requirements were met. The proposal had grades six through 12 moving to four-day in-class learni...
Vaccine for the virus that causes COVID-19 is arriving in the area at a time when people appear to have taken actions to slow the spread of the virus following surges over the summer and a massive surge in the fall. But officials are warning people that it may be months before the vaccine is available for much of the general population, and they need to continue following recommendations - wearing masks in public settings, avoiding large gatherings, staying home as much as...
NorthWestern Energy reports a power outage occurred this afternoon, from Lohman through Chinook to Zurich, but power was quickly restored. Spokesperson Jo Dee Black said the outage, which impacted about 1,400 NorthWestern Energy customers, started about 12:27 p.m. today. Crews responded and power was restored by about 2:20 p.m., Black said. The crews were focused on restoring service and the cause of the outage has not yet been determined, she said....
Montana’s U.S. senators Monday touted provisions in a COVID-19 relief bill and an omnibus spending bill that includes the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes water compact. The bills passed also include funding for Amtrak. The $900 billion COVID-19 bill is a scaled-down version of proposals that have been in the works since spring but stalled in Congress. Democrats wanted a larger bill that provided more relief to groups like consumers and people who had lost their jobs as well as state and local governments, while R...
With the first round of COVID-19 vaccine on the way to hospitals in Montana to vaccinate front-line health care workers, testing for the disease is continuing, although some jurisdictions are having to make choices on who they can test. Officials said testing is not being rationed in Hill County. The vaccine Pfizer and BioNTech produced was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Friday, and the first round started shipping Sunday. In Montana, the first round of vaccine will go to major hospitals in the state. The...
Events are being altered due to the COVID-19 pandemic but the season is still moving on. This weekend The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce held its annual cookies with Santa, but this year it was held as a walk-by event at the Holiday Village Mall. Then the Clauses went down to Town Square for the annual tree-lighting ceremony, but without its usual fanfare. The event normally has vendors with food and drinks, members of the Havre High School choir leading Christmas carols and...
A lot can happen in a month, especially during a global pandemic, and Montana and the local area saw the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and COVID-19 deaths climb over November. Officials, local, state and national, have said they have great concerns that the numbers will mount even higher in December due to people gathering for the holidays. November 1, the start of the ninth month since the first cases and deaths were confirmed in Montana, the state had 33,495 confirmed...
Havre Public Schools announced this morning that the Havre Board of Trustees will meet Thursday, Dec. 10, at 6:30 p.m. at Havre Middle School to interview the three finalists for the Board of Trustees appointment to take the place of Trustee Brian Williams, who has resigned. The three final interviewees are Scott Adams, Jim Donovan and Lorraine Larson. A Zoom link will be posted on the district website next week. No other action will be taken at the Dec. 10 meeting. The compilation and results from the boards screening...
The Fort Belknap Indian Reservation tribal government announced Monday it is extending its reservation-wide shutdown, effective from 12:01 this morning through at least Monday, Dec. 14 at 12:59 p.m. The Fort Belknap Indian Community Council said in a statement that the order was based upon the recommendation of the Fort Belknap Indian Community Incident Command Team. “The FBIC Council thanks everyone for your cooperation in trying to keep the spread and effects of the COVID-19 coronavirus at a minimum,” the release said. “St...
Health care and public officials are warning people that numbers may seem down for confirmed COVID-19 cases but that may be an impact of the holiday and they may come back even higher as testing catches up. The state COVID-19 response tracking map update this morning listed 369 new cases in the state, bringing the total to 62,198 confirmed cases, but officials say that number could climb as testing delayed by the Thanksgiving holiday catches up. The total today is 2,402 more than the update from Friday, which reported 148...
The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has dropped in this part of Montana, though it still is higher than health officials hope for, and numbers continue to roll in throughout the state, straining resources. Local, state and medical officials are urging people to follow recommendations to slow the spread of the virus during the holiday season, including keeping gatherings small or nonexistent, people not going out of their homes unless it is essential and that anyone going out in public wears a mask to reduce their...
