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  • 8 p.m. Update: Better weather conditions help some Montana firefighters

    Updated Aug 31, 2015

    HELENA nday, while other fires closer to the central part of the state continued to spread and threaten rural residences. After most fires grew on Saturday because of warm, windy conditions, Sunday's weather brought at least cooler temperatures across the state. "We were hoping that today would not be so active and that's the way things have been working out," Brad Purdy, spokesman for a complex of fires burning in the Kootenai National Forest near the Idaho border, said Sunday afternoon. Purdy said conditions improved so muc...

  • Rebecca R. Eagleman

    Updated Aug 31, 2015

    Rebecca R. Eagleman, 28, passed away on Saturday, Aug. 29, 2015, at Benefis Medical Center in Great Falls. Wake services will begin at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 30, 2015, at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, and will continue until her funeral service which will be at 10 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 31, 2015, also at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church. Burial will follow in the Eagleman Family Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Rebecca's...

  • Bulldogs run over Blue Ponies

    Chris Peterson|Updated Aug 30, 2015

    The Havre High football team entered the 2015 season with high expectations. Unfortunately, at least in the first game, things did not go as planned for the Blue Ponies. On a smokey day at Blue Pony Stadium, it was clear that the Whitefish Bulldogs were the better team and it wasn't even close. The Bulldogs, Havre's Northwest A rival, dominated in all three facets of the game en route to an impressive 44-12 victory Saturday afternoon inside Blue Pony Stadium. "We were...

  • Wilks brothers plan to open road on ranch

    Updated Aug 29, 2015

    GREAT FALLS (AP) — Access to 50,000 acres of federal land in the Upper Missouri River Breaks in north-central Montana will be reopened to the public soon. The road on the ranch owned by Dan and Farris Wilks has been closed since 2011. But in a show of goodwill to Montana hunters and the Bureau of Land Management, Farris Wilks says the road will be opened from Sept. 1 through Jan. 1. The brothers have proposed a land exchange with the BLM to consolidate their ranch holdings in Fergus County. The proposal is still pending r...