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Hill County Sheriff Don Brostrom is retiring from the sheriff's office after more than 28 years in law enforcement and nine as sheriff, but he has no plans to stay idle for long. After his going-away party March 31, he will take the weekend off and then start his new job as a law enforcement communications assistant for U.S. Border Patrol, where he will work in the dispatch center. The job was almost an accident, he said. It started when he was helping Border Patrol with a...
BILLINGS -- The Montana State University-Northern Skylights did everything they could to advance to the final eight of the NAIA Women's Basketball Championship Friday night inside the Rimrock Auto Arena at the Metra in Billings, but in the end, they fell six points short. Despite a valiant effort and a never-say-die spirit, the Skylights battled one of the best teams in the country for four quarters, but ultimately, dropped their second-round game at the national tournament...
Some public school superintendents in north-central Montana say a bill to change how charter schools are overseen is unnecessary. In Montana, current administrative rules say charter schools can be established if a school district’s publicly elected board of trustees submits a charter to the Montana Board of Public Education. If approved by the Board of Public Education, a charter school is then formed and overseen by the trustees. House Bill 376, introduced last month by state Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder, and passed...
ROCKY BOY— A request for an emergency court hearing for the Chippewa Cree Tribe has been granted and scheduled for Wednesday, Chippewa Cree Tribe Business Committee Chair Harlan Gopher Baker said this morning after an administrative meeting in the tribal chambers. The meeting came a day after the tribe filed for an emergency hearing., In a letter Monday, Baker said tribal accounts had been improperly frozen by BEH Gaming Ltd. of Florida. He added that though the frozen accounts will make it more difficult, the tribe is s...
National Weather Service has put a flood watch out for Clear Creek in Blaine County near Chinook, saying that snow melt from the Bear Paw Mountains has put the creek level above the flood stage. Blaine County Commissioner Frank DePriest said this morning that the commission has not yet heard from any residents who have had problems on Clear Creek, and the commissioners had hoped the level would be dropping. “We knew it was high yesterday and we expected it to be receding,” he said. Weather Service issued its warning at 3:0...
