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The Hill County Park Board voted to impose time limits on public comments at their monthly meeting this week where they also considered consolidating their committees and looked at the coming year's budget. During the meeting, Board Member Lou Hagener presented an updated version of the board's public comments and agenda-setting policy in the hopes that it would be approved. Board Chair Jeff Jensen said the board doesn't need that, and all he wants to change is the time...
The topic of urban chickens was again raised to Havre City Council at its monthly meeting Monday. Havre resident Al Garver has started a petition to allow urban chickens in the city, and told Havre Daily News that he has obtained 290 signatures and he is very pleased with that. He was out of town for Monday, but council member Denise Brewer - Garver said he met with Brewer and council member Heather Parker about his petition - brought the petition up during the public comment...
A COVID-19 outbreak in Blaine County is under investigation, Blaine County Health Department said in a release. The release said public health mitigation steps are in place and public health is responding to the outbreak. The department reported being notified of eight new cases April 19, 14 new cases April 20, 20 new cases April 21-24 and 16 new cases from April 25 to Monday. Kim Berg, chief health officer at Hill County Health Department, said this morning that her department had right around 25 positives reported in...
HELENA (AP) — A judge in Montana temporarily blocked a new rule Monday that would have required physicians in the state to provide prior documentation showing that an abortion is medically necessary before the state’s Medicaid program will authorize payment for the procedure. District Court Judge Mike Menahan wrote that his order “will serve the public interest by ensuring that Medicaid-eligible Montanans continue to have access to constitutionally protected abortions and safe, effective medical care.” All three of the sta...
Press release GLASGOW - Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks honored the service of its Region 6 Hunter and Bowhunter Education volunteer instructors at the annual workshop, which was held Saturday, April 15, in Glasgow. The workshop has been an annual event that invites all the volunteer instructors across the region for a day filled with visiting, updates to the program, demonstrations of new equipment and ideas, and most importantly, honoring years of service in 5-year...
Press release Havre Public Works Department released a notice today asking residents to help their workers Wednesday and Thursday by not parking streetside in the downtown area while they sweep the streets those days. The city will be running its sweeper and support equipment on downtown streets for spring cleaning. Havre Public Works asked that people adjust their travel routes and parking accommodations accordingly and to be aware of men and machinery working in the area. For more information, people can call...
AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA — Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr asked a court Monday to allow for her return to the House floor after she was silenced and barred for chiding her Republican colleagues over legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and for encouraging protesters. Attorneys for the first-term lawmaker sued in state district court in Helena on behalf of Zephyr, a transgender Democrat who represents a liberal district in the college town of Missoula, and several c...
JoVonne Wagner Montana Free Press Indigenous Legislative Fellow for 2023 A legislative conference committee voted against restoring the original language of a bill that would codify the federal Indian Child Welfare Act into state law, as had been requested by the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Jonathan Windy Boy, D-Box Elder. House Bill 317, which was designed to secure protections for Indigenous children under state care while the federal ICWA is threatened in a Supreme Court case, is moving forward with a contested amendment that wou...
Havre Police Department A Second Street caller asked Monday at 8:13 a.m. to speak with an officer about vandalism at a church. -- Wilma Howard of Havre, 35, was arrested on a pick up and hold order and two Justice or City court warrants on Third Avenue Monday at 11:02 a.m. -- Craig Warren Landon of Havre, 56, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after a First Avenue caller asked Monday at 11:38 a.m. for assistance with a renter who was running around waving a BB gun...
Editor, A little over three months ago, I had talked with Rep. Paul Tuss about informing constituents concerning what was happening in the Legislature. He thought that was a good idea either through the Havre Daily or Facebook. This would allow his constituents to give timely feedback on bills. He also said he would send me an email on a better proposal for Property Tax solutions, which was never sent. The problem is relatively little information from Rep. Tuss on bills going through the Legislature be it financial, or State...
Editor, In the Montana Legislature, the pressure to get each bill heard and acted upon quickly with many looming deadlines does not allow for time to study and careful review of the important and complex bills. Such bills can be sent to an interim committee to study over the interim. Then with a very good staff, they have two years to study and perfect the language before making a recommendation to the next session of the Legislature. Most importantly, however, is the fact that partisan politics is largely removed from the...
The TSA agent looked stern — as they usually do. “I’d like to look inside this bag, ma’am,” he said. “No problem!” I always sound a little too eager when being questioned by an authority figure. I’m trying so hard to prove I have nothing to hide that I sound like I must have something to hide. The agent proceeded to open my carry-on bag. “It’s a bowl!” I told him, with a little too much enthusiasm. My husband, Peter, was supposed to have put the bowl in his checked luggage,...
June 12, Montana will be in the national spotlight as the first ever constitutional climate trial — Held v. the State of Montana — takes place in Helena. National attention to our state is increasing, as 16 youth, representing different rural and urban communities in Montana, assert that the government is violating their constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment and their opportunity to seek safety, health, happiness, and equal protection of the law. The case builds on years of legal work culminating in a fed...
When Americans think of Montana, they picture snow-capped peaks, rolling prairies, and rainbow trout darting through the crystal-clear rivers that run through it. Or they simply think of America’s first national park, Yellowstone — or its popular TV namesake. There are also some truths about Montanans: We’re independent-minded, and community-centric. In snowy weather, you’ll never see one car off the road; you’ll always see two, because we stop to help to dig one another out of a ditch. And, in Montana, freedom runs gene...
The Havre High track and field teams just competed in the Whitefish ARM Invitational this past weekend, but several Blue Ponies will be right back at it with the North/East Top Ten Meet in Glasgow tonight. Even though they will be facing some tough competition, HHS head coach Kari Filius expects her athletes to do well. "We have quite a few kids that qualified and I'm expecting some really good performances there," Filius said. In the 100-meter sprint, Brayden Kimberling...
It’s recruiting season. And Montana State University-Northern women's basketball coach Chris Mouat has announced the signing of McKenzie Long to join the Skylight program next fall. Long, a 5-foot-8 guard from American Falls, Idaho, recently finished a two-year junior college career at Walla Walla Community College. Long is a 2021 graduate of American Falls High School, where she was a three-sport standout. She was a four-year varsity soccer player, earning all-conference hono...
The Montana State University-Northern Lights are re-stocking the cupboard for next basketball season. Coach Shawn Huse has announced the signing of all-around guard/forward, 6-foot-5 Xavier Bailey of Renton, Washington. As an efficient player and tremendous leader for the North Idaho College Cardinals, he helped them to a 28-1 record and Regional Championship this past season, as well as a 20-7 record in 2021-22, in the always-tough East Region of the Northwest Athletic...
