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9:45 a.m. Hill County Disaster and Emergency Services Coordinator Amanda Frickel said this morning that a full attack continues on the Eagle Creek Fire in the Bear Paw Mountains. Frickel said the fire, first detected on Mount Baldy Wednesday afternoon on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation, was estimated this morning at 8,200 acres. She said containment is estimated at 60 percent off the reservation and 30 percent on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation. Frickel said about 150 personnel...
The fire in the Bear Paw Mountains that was reported at 2,000 acres this morning -- but growing rapidly -- was listed at 8,500 acres this afternoon, with Hill County Disaster and Emergency Services reporting at 2 p.m. that it was 45 percent contained but Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation reporting at about 1 p.m. zero percent containment on the reservation side. A post about 1 p.m. on the Chippewa Creek Tribe Facebook page said the fire, which started on the reservation on Mount...
For the past few months, Havre City Council’s Streets and Sidewalks committee has been discussing the possibility of changing 6th Street into a one-way street to decrease excessive traffic, speeding and accidents. This proposal came mostly from Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich, who’s said that the street just gets too much traffic and they see a lot of accidents and speeding, with the intersection between Sixth Street and Ninth Avenue being particularly problematic. The committee, the police department, and City Council Membe...
A fire started on Mount Baldy Wednesday and, while fire crews and law enforcement across the three counties the fire has spread to are responding, information on the fire remains somewhat scarce. Chippewa Cree Business Committee Chair Harlan Baker said, according to this morning's update, the fire had reached 2,000 acres but the fire has since spread significantly and that number is now very outdated. Baker said Rocky Boy has sent crews to fight the fire and air tankers from...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks GLASGOW — With our region of northeast Montana suffering extreme drought with the constant threat of wildfires, hunters and other recreationists taking to the field must be aware of local fire restrictions and closures and take necessary precautions. Archery antelope started Aug. 15, upland game bird season (and mourning doves) on Sept. 1, and archery-only hunting season for deer, elk, antelope, bighorn sheep, black bear, wolf and mountain lion began on Sept. 3, so plenty of hunters are out i...
Stephen R. Brown, lifelong Chester-area farmer, died of natural causes September 1, 2022. Steve was born September 3, 1932, in the same house on the farm as where he passed. He was born to Fred and Frances Brown, and joined brother, Max, and sister, Carol. Steve attended Montana State College (now MSU) from 1950-1954, where he graduated with a degree in industrial arts. While there he joined Pi Kappa fraternity, and met his future wife, Dorothy Ann Larsen, a member of AO Pi...
Havre Police Department After receiving a call from a Havre school at 1:05 p.m. Wednesday, a 16-year-old was issued a summons on a charge of purchase or possession of an intoxicant by a minor. -- After a call from a residence on First Street Northeast at 7:47 p.m. Wednesday, officers arrested Joshua Daniel Nepoose of Box Elder, 24, on a charge of obstructing a peace officer or public servant. Hill County Sheriff's Office At 13:15 p.m. Wednesday on the 10 Block of Second...
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks HELENA — Are you ready for hunting season? FWP can help. In addition to the following hunting forecast, FWP provides online information about hunting access, including our popular Block Management Program. Through the program, we coordinate with landowners to provide hunting access to more than 7 million acres of private land. The interactive Hunt Planner map allows users to look at information for various species, including hunting districts and regulations. The hunt planner interactive m...
After a week off, the Montana State University-Northern Skylights return to preseason volleyball play. But this won't be any ordinary preseason tournament for Northern. Instead, for the second season in a row, the Skylights get to host a tournament inside the Armory Gymnasium, as they welcome in teams from North Dakota and the Frontier Conference Friday and Saturday for the Frontier-North Star Conference Challenge. The tournament will consist of the Skylights, as well as Monta...
While college football and volleyball will have the eyes of sports fans on the Hi-Line, there are several other collegiate sports taking place this fall. Over the next few months, the rodeo teams, the golf teams and the cross country teams for Montana State University-Northern will begin competition. The MSU-N rodeo teams will begin the fall portion of their schedule with a rodeo at Northwest Community College in Powell, Wyoming from Sept. 9 to 10. The rodeo teams will then...
And then there were two. Just two weeks into the 2022 Frontier Conference football season, there's just two unbeatens left. And, honestly, that doesn't bode well for the league getting more than one team in the NAIA playoffs this November. Montana Tech's dominant defensive performance and College of Idaho's hinge win in Billings left the Orediggers and Yotes tied atop the Frontier standings two weeks into the season, while Carroll College and Rocky Mountain College's bid to...
