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Libertarian candidate Mark Wicks said Thursday he has noticed an increase in support for his campaign for Montana's lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives since taking part in the only televised debate of the campaign April 29. "People got to see me compared to the other candidates, and I came out pretty strong," Wicks said. He added that, since then, his campaign has received more contributions and volunteers. A rancher from Inverness and first-time political...
Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester said Wednesday he is concerned about the negative impact President Donald Trump’s proposed budget could have on rural Montana. “He used a chainsaw where he should have been using a scalpel,” Tester said. “I know we need to get our fiscal house in order, there is no doubt about that, but we cannot balance the budget on the back of rural America.” Last month, Trump unveiled his first budget proposal for FY 2018. It includes a $54 billion hike in defense spending and money to construct a wall o...
U.S. Sen Jon Tester praised on Wednesday a short-term spending bill passed by Congress that he said will avert a government shutdown and prevent cuts to federal programs rural America depends on. "I understand if the government shuts down Montana loses," he said during a telephone press conference. The $1.1 trillion stop-gap funding measure, passed both Houses of Congress and was signed into law by President Donald Trump last week, funds the government through September....
Republican Congressional candidate Greg Gianforte threw several jabs at his Democratic rival and talked about President Donald Trump's proposed budget and other issues at a campaign event in the Vineyard Room of Havre's Duck Inn Wednesday. Gianforte, a retired Bozeman entrepreneur and the unsuccessful Republican candidate in last year's gubernatorial race is running for Montana's lone seat in the U.S House of Representatives. The seat has been vacant since March when Ryan Zink...
UM News MISSOULA – Montana landowners across the state now have access to hourly reports of soil moisture, temperature, soil quality, rainfall and more. The Montana Climate Office launched the Montana Mesonet information network this past summer, installing wireless weather stations at 13 sites across Big Sky Country. Based at the University of Montana, the climate office uses a cooperative approach that addresses a diverse set of information needs. The expansion of Montana Mesonet will provide information to landowners, w...
BUTTE — Leonard Arthur Erickson lived a long life during a remarkable time. He was 97 years old when he passed away Dec. 17, 2016, at The Springs Care Center in Butte. He was born April 20, 1919, to Charles and Edna Erickson in Butte and graduated from Butte High School in 1937. His family owned and operated a number of food-associated businesses including a lunch counter that was across the street from the Hennessey building. He attended Montana Tech for two years. During that time, he also worked at the Food Emporium and i...
Buses will stop for holidays Press release North Central Montana Transit has announced that its buses will not run Monday, Dec. 26, or Monday, Jan. 2, in observance of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Buses will resume their normal schedules Tuesday of each week. Cape Air holds Montana food and toy drive at all airports Could win two round-trip tickets on Cape Air Press release BILLINGS — Cape Air, Montana’s Essential Air Service carrier, is holding a food and toy drive at all of its airports across Montana. Cape Air w...
We in the newspaper business often spend our time covering the dark side of society — the fires, arrests and political corruption. But we also spend a lot of time dealing with some really great people. Many are the people who stay in the background because that’s the way they want it. They volunteer in the community, they go the extra mile, they help people when no one is watching. They are the last ones to want to be mentioned in the newspaper. As we look back at 2014, we reflect on just some of these people we worked wit...
The Hill County Commission is sending a request to voters in November for a tax to pay for work at the Havre City-County Airport. Commissioner Jeff LaVoi, who sits on the airport board, said the tax would pay for Federal Aviation Administration-mandated work on the runway and for repairs and maintenance. If the runway work is not done, it could affect federal funding and having a commercial airline fly to and from the airport, now provided by the Essential Air...
After an update Wednesday, the air carrier that serves Havre has grounded some more flights but has replacement aircraft on the way to resume full service. Erin Hatzell of Cape Air told the Havre Daily News Wednesday afternoon that the airline, which took over federally subsidized Essential Air Service in Montana in December, decided to pull six airplanes damaged in a severe storm Sunday in Billings out of service. Hatzell had said Wednesday morning that the routes — from and to Billings and Havre, Glasgow, Glendive, S...
The new airline serving smaller Montana communities including Havre has hit a few bumps, including adjusting to the weather, but the transition seems to be working, with passenger numbers up for Cape Air. The airline, founded in Massachusetts, took over Montana's federally subsidized Essential Air Service passenger flights in December, and brought usage numbers up significantly from the previous year. Billings Cape Air marketing manager Erin Hatzell said the company is...
The founder and CEO of the airline that took over Essential Air Service in Montana said Tuesday that his company plans to be here for the long haul. "I can't say our commitment to you is for life, but this is not a two-year EAS commitment," Cape Air founder and CEO Dan Wolf said. "We are here to serve you, to help you build your community ... Let's say it's a 50-year commitment." "We want to be part of your success story, and we want you to be part of our success story," he...
The airline taking over the Montana Essential Air Service flights including for Havre will start making the flights between Billings and five other Montana cities Dec. 10. “We are viewing the start of service in Montana as an exciting chapter in our organization’s history,” said Linda Markham, president of Massachusetts-based Cape Air. “The opportunity to provide frequent, consistent air service, create new jobs and become a community partner to these six cities is one that we eagerly welcome.” The company offers twice daily...
A new service will take over the Essential Air Service flights to and from Havre and other Montana cities and Billings early in December. Cape Air issued a release saying it will begin offering the flights Dec. 10, taking over from Silver Airways. The federal Department of Transportation awarded Cape Air the Montana EAS contract earlier this year. Silver Airways announced last spring it was ending its Montana service, but the DOT ordered the company to continue offering the flights until a new airline could begin. Cape Air...
NEW YORK — The partial government shutdown that began Tuesday left many federal workers uncertain of their financial future, with many facing unpaid furloughs or delays in paychecks. Park ranger and father-to-be Darquez Smith said he already lives paycheck to paycheck while putting himself through college and worried how he'll fare if the shutdown lasts a long time. "I've got a lot on my plate right now — tuition, my daughter, bills," said Smith, 23, a ranger at Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park in Ohio. "I'...
After decades of one company providing air transportation to smaller Montana towns, the state once again has a new company set to provide Essential Air Service, the fourth in five years. The U.S. Department of Transportation announced Wednesday it selected Cape Air, based in Massachusetts, to take over the service from Silver Airways. Trish Lorino, marketing director for Cape Air, said this morning that many of the details — including exactly when it will take the service over from Silver Airways — still are being worked out...
HELENA (AP) — Montana's Essential Air Service provider has announced it won't bid on another two-year contract, but will continue to fly the routes until a new airline is awarded the contract and is ready to begin service. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Silver Airways announced Friday that it plans to move its Beech 1900D airplanes from Montana to serve its Cleveland market. Silver Airways' two-year EAS contract with the Department of Transportation expired in May. DOT is taking bids through July 2 for a contract to serve G...
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., talked Thursday about several issues dealing with federal spending, and said he wants to see Congress take action to clean up the budget on both the spending and revenue sides. “The problem is, we can’t get both sides to sit down at the table and look at the expenditures and look at the tax code,” he said from Washington during a telephone press conference. Tester talked about several issues regarding federal spending and budgeting, from cuts proposed to SNAP, formerly known as food stamp...
The left wing of the political spectrum joined forces with the right wing on Tuesday, screaming in delight that Sen. Max Baucus would not run for a seventh term in the U.S. Senate. Tea party groups pointed to Baucus' support for Obamacare, while the left wing blogs were steamed that Baucus let people down with his vote against mandatory background checks to purchase weapons. Baucus always said he had the best one million bosses in the world — the people of Montana. We suspect that today the million bosses will be more kind t...
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., talked Thursday about several issues dealing with federal spending, and said he wants to see Congress take action to clean up the budget on both the spending and revenue sides. "The problem is, we can't get both sides to sit down at the table and look at the expenditures and look at the tax code," he said from Washington during a telephone press conference. Tester talked about several issues regarding federal spending and budgeting, from cuts proposed to SNAP, formerly known as food stamps, to...
BOSTON (AP) — A storm that forecasters warned could be a blizzard for the history books began clobbering the New York-to-Boston corridor Friday, grounding flights, closing workplaces and sending people rushing to get home ahead of a possible 1 to 3 feet of snow. AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar A runner runs in the snow in the park along Commonwealth Ave in Boston, Friday. Snow began falling across the Northeast on Friday, ushering in what was predicted to be a huge, possibly historic blizzard and sending residents scurrying to s...
NEW YORK — Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Eastern Seaboard's largest cities Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, sending coastal residents fleeing, and threatening a dangerous mix of high winds, soaking rain and a surging wall of water up to 11 feet tall. Sandy strengthened before dawn and stayed on a predicted path toward Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York — putting it on a collision course with two other weather systems that would create a superstorm with the potential...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Community members gather Thursday evening to discuss the benefits and shortfalls of Havre. Vibrant Futures hosted the community planning event at Lincoln-McKinley Primary School. Vibrant Futures is a group of city, county and tribal governments from 11 counties in north-central Montana, as well as various non-profits. The Vibrant Futures staff got a snapshot of the thoughts and opinions of a few dozen area residents, both politicians and regular residents, that can help in forming a regional...
Wednesday, Aug. 1, will bring a few changes to services provided by Silver Airways, formerly Gulfstream Airlines, in Montana. In Havre, the Essential Air Service-subsidized schedule will temporarily move from a 9:45 p. m. daily arrival to 7:55 a. m. from Aug. 1 to Aug. 25, "to accommodate planned aircraft maintenance. " "Regular rotation aircraft have to go through what are called C-checks, which are mandated by the FAA, " Steve Bennett, Silver spokesperson, said. "We have a few aircraft that operate in Montana that are...
The Havre Daily News came home with seven first-place awards and 11 other honors at the annual Montana Newspaper Association Better Newspaper Contest Saturday night. Havre Daily News Publisher/Advertising Director Stacy Mantle said she was very pleased with the staff's performance in 2011. "I couldn't be prouder of what our team has accomplished this last year, and what the future has in store for us." The contest was judged by journalists from the Maryland-Delaware-District of Columbia Press Association. John Barrows,...
