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After more than a week from the first report of the kind, police are still receiving reports that businesses are being bamboozled by individuals paying with fake $100 bills. A caller from a First Street business reported to Havre police Wednesday at 8:01 a.m. that they had received a fake $100 bill. Lt. Aaron Wittmer of the Havre Police Department said this morning the fake $100 bill used at the auto parts store is the same motion picture money Havre police have received...
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Wednesday he will not recommend changes to Montana's Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument as he continues to review national monuments for possible elimination or reduction. Zinke said the monument is one of the only free-flowing areas of the Missouri that remains as explorers Lewis and Clark saw it more than 200 years ago. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock had asked Zinke to keep the...
Six week after he was sworn in as Montana's only member of the U.S. House Representatives, U.S Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., made a few stops in the Havre area Wednesday as part of a listening tour of the state, stops that included the new Kracklin' Kamut facility in Big Sandy and a water facility in Chinook. Gianforte said the tour is in keeping with a promise he made in May when he won a special election to fill the U.S. House Ryan Zinke held and later resigned to become...
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox has appointed Havre native Scott Larson to become the next director of the Montana State Crime Lab. Larson, who graduated Havre High School in 1993 before earning a Bachelor of Science in 1999 and a Master of Science in pharmacology/pharmaceutical sciences from the University of Montana in 2005, will take over as director Aug. 12. He will be replacing Phil Kinsey, Ph.D., who was appointed as Lab director in 2013. Larson has been the toxicology...
My suitcase perches, mouth open, on my sofa, poised to swallow piles of clothing and jumbles of travel essentials: toiletries, Kindle, laptop, gifts. Mine is not a planned trip. The “plan” was for my son, Ben, to visit me, granddaughter Lexi in hand. It’s still a plan, delayed by the IRS. That fearsome entity is auditing my son’s taxes for the year he sent his life veering off the rails. Evidently, they fear he might come to Mexico and never return. Once the audit is finished...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a two-vehicle, non-injury motor vehicle crash after a First Street caller made a report Wednesday at 12:52 p.m. —— Officers assisted a citizen who asked to speak to an officer Wednesday at 6:16 p.m. —— Officers investigated after a First Street caller reported Wednesday at 7:39 p.m. that her porch swing was stolen. Hill County Sheriff’s Office Deputies arrested Sella Marie Parisian of Havre, 33, Wednesday at 3:36 p.m. at the Hill County Detention Center on a Justice or City cour...
Havre Daily News staff A Havre store focusing on Native crafts has finished its move to a prime location in the Ryan Building and is having a grand re-opening this week. Owner Margaret Standing Bear opened Sundogs, A Native Touch, a Native craft galleryin the Ryan Building in downtown Havre in 2012. She now has moved the retail space to the front street location in the building at 48 Second Avenue, which afforded window availability and has allowed more opportunity for...
Pizza Factory, a California-based pizza restaurant chain, is looking for people interested in starting and operating their own franchise in Havre, part of a larger push to expand its number of locations in several western states. Pizza Factory President and CEO Mary Jane Riva said the company, which operates 113 stores in the western U.S., has been looking since March for franchisees who want to start and own their business as well as be part of a community. She said when Pizza Factory started opening franchises it was...
From Fish, Wildlife and Parks A popular Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 6 program that allows children and their families to check out free fishing rods and tackle is in full swing again this year. In time for summer fishing, FWP staff has restocked the 44 different location sites across and near Montana’s Hi-Line. The “Kids to Fish” program lets youngsters check out fishing rods and reels and use basic tackle, such as hooks, bobbers, and sinkers. Typically, eight rods are at each location, and usually a tackle box i...
The new school year at Montana State University-Northern is still close to a month from starting. But, for MSU-N athletes and coaches in fall sports, things are already heating up. The Northern volleyball team began preseason camp this week, and the Skylights are just three weeks away from officially opening the season. Meanwhile, the Northern football team is about to begin fall camp, ahead of its season-opening game Sept. 2 at Rocky Mountain College. Of course, football and...
Havre High wrestling coach Scott Filius is undoubtedly one of the greatest high school coaches the state of Montana has ever seen. In fact, he's so good, he was named to the Montana Coaches Association Hall of Fame, before his coaching career is even over. "To be honest with you," Filius said. "It just feels early. It is an honor and I do appreciate it, don't get me wrong, it's just that, you'd like to think that the Hall of Fame is for when you are done and maybe I'm done,...
