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Editor's note: This version corrects the time of a vehicle crash Monday in Chinook. Havre Police Department A caller on First Avenue reported a theft Monday at 10:59 a.m. -- A written or verbal warning was issued after a man was reported passed out behind a vehicle at Fourth Avenue West and First Street Monday at 12:15 p.m. -- Dana Lee Turner of Havre, 44, was arrested on a Justice or City court warrant served after an Eighth Avenue caller asked at 4:07 p.m. Monday for...
Cases, hospitalizations and deaths due to COVID-19 continue to drop this month after a short surge in January driven by the XBB.1.5 subvariant, as the U.S. announces a planned end to the Public Health Emergency later this year. The subvariant, which quickly became a dominant strain in much of the U.S., especially the northeast appeared to drive a surge which peaked in early January but receded much more quickly than many health officials feared. After the surge of cases,...
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality has released an update regarding assessment of an oil spill in 2018 in the BNSF rail yard. That site, an active locomotive fueling and maintenance rail yard, has operated since the 1890s and spills and leaks in the yard have led to the designation of the location as a state superfund facility, where DEQ works to facilitate the investigation and cleanup of hazardous substances. The update said the 2018 spill, of more than 2,000 gallons from the rail yard’s wastewater treatment pl...
Press release Boy Scouts of America began 113 years ago in 1910. Each year during the month of February "we recognize the birthday of Scouting's Founder, Lord Baden-Powell as well celebrate the lasting legacy of the Scout movement. For over 100 years, Scouting has empowered young people with life and leadership skills which help improve their communities and create a better world." While looking back, Havre and the surrounding areas have a had strong and proud history with...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 6 office has issued a reminder to ice fishers to remove their ice shacks by Wednesday, March 1. Ice fishing shelters must be removed from the ice before the shelters become irretrievable at the end of the season. In the Western Fishing District this means within five days from receipt of notification from FWP to remove the shelter, but in the Eastern Fishing District shelters must be removed by March 1. Shelters may be on the ice after this deadline if they are removed daily, unless...
As the executive director of the Montana Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence — MCADSV — for 17 years and lobbyist for the coalition for 19 years, I cannot tell you how many bills I’ve heard claiming to protect children but are poorly disguised attempts to outcast people in our communities. These types of legislation often hurt children in the process. The Drag Story Hour bill at the Legislature is a prime example. First, let’s be clear. Child sexual abuse is a problem in our state. I know because it’s an issue MCA...
Last week was the last week to get bills transferred over to the opposite legislative house in time to beat the bill cutoff known as transmittal. If the bill hasn’t moved by this week, unless it is a revenue bill, it is likely dead. With that deadline looming, it seems votes on certain bills are being leveraged for votes on other bills. This is too bad, as, in some cases, good bills can get lost in the fray. In order to meet transmittal cutoff, many Senate and House committees are running long in order to get public h...
The Montana Republican Party’s Executive Committee recently approved a resolution rebuking former Montana Republican Gov. Marc Racicot, saying Racicot’s actions in recent years disqualify him from saying he’s a “REPUBLICAN.” In a true over-reach, the resolution from this 13-member clique tries to order the news media to no longer refer to Racicot as a Republican. The news media knows, as most of the mainstream Republican voters in Montana know, that Marc Racicot represents the thinking of hundreds of thousands of Montana G...
Did you hear about the climate rally at the state capital? Nobody desecrated any paintings, but it was about what you’d expect: a chorus of progressives calling for “climate justice.” Except, we were there too. We were there: • Knowing greenhouse gas emissions threaten our natural landscape and economy • Rejecting the false dilemma of the Green New Deal vs. climate denial • Trusting free markets more than big government to solve problems • Understanding that industrial problems need industrial solutions • Believing in th...
On Monday night at the Great Falls Four Seasons Arena, the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team found itself in a thriller. In the semifinal game of the Frontier Conference Tournament, the Lights went back and forth with the University of Providence. Despite the Lights' best efforts, they lost, 72-70, to end their run in the tournament. The Lights did their best as they fell behind by double digits at multiple points in the contest. They were able to fight...
Even after many games at the Northern C Divisional Girls Basketball, the tournament still had a challenge game Monday to determine who would finish second and clinch a spot in the Class C State Tournament. At the Great Falls Four Seasons Arena, a pair of District 9C teams in the Chinook Sugarbeeters and the Fort Benton Longhorns went at it for the final spot at state. At the end of the day, the Sugarbeeters advanced to state with a 48-37 win over the Longhorns. The...
After a third-place finish at the District 1B Boys Basketball Tournament a few weeks back, the Rocky Boy boys basketball team will continue the postseason with the Northern B Divisional Boys Basketball Tournament in Shelby this week. The Morning Stars will start the tournament with a game against Malta Thursday at 2:30 p.m. The Malta Mustangs enter the tournament with a 14-6 record and are coming off a second-place finish at the District 2B Tournament. The Mustangs will be...
