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Rep. Greg Gianforte R-Mont., hosted a roundtable Wednesday at Fresno Beach with irrigators, members of the Milk River Joint Board of Control and of the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group to discuss the work that's been going on at the St. Mary Diversion. The meeting came in the week after a meeting of the St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group Friday. Gianforte is leaving his office in a bid for Montana governor, and faces Lt. Gov. and Co-Chair of the St. Mary working group...
Editor, This year has been different in so many ways, however one way it will remain the same is that flu season is coming. Montana physicians and the Montana Medical Association see this flu season likely to place an unprecedented strain on our health care system thanks to COVID-19. Chills and sore throats, that might have been treated with a few days of fluids and rest in past years, will now require additional scrutiny and monitoring. In the coming months we will certainly need our health care providers even more than we...
Note: This was provided by the office of Sen. Jon Tester WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced Monday that the Havre Area Head Start and Early Head Start program will receive $1,145,047 in U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funding to continue providing early education opportunities and child care services for families in Northcentral Montana. “One of the most critical investments we can make is in the next generations of Montanans who will lead our state into the future,” Tester said. “Havr...
Press release KINGS POINT, NY - Cameron James Pleninger of Havre was recently sworn in as a midshipman at the United States Merchant Marine Academy and as a member of the U.S. Naval Reserve. Pleninger was nominated by Montana's U.S. Sens. Steve Daines and Jon Tester, to attend USMMA, located in Kings Point, New York, and one of the nation's five federal service academies. As part of his four-year education, Pleninger will spend one year training as a cadet aboard ocean going...
Despite the cold and snow and pandemic, services and ceremonies are still happening Wednesday, Veterans Day, live and online, to honor people who have served. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 497 Quartermaster Scott Prindiville said a ceremony will start at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the VFW Memorial on the 300 Block of First Street next to Havre’s Town Square. Prindiville said it will be a short ceremony, with plans including a benediction, singing of the national anthem, a three-volley salute by the Veterans Honor Guard and the p...
Dear Editor, The fires were hot down Yellowstone way “We’re headed North” is all Janet did say. So off to Havre where the wind does blow Jack agreed to follow and go. For three long years he played the game Until an opening at HFD finally came. At last, every child’s dream come true! Driving a big red fire engine his due! What fun Jack’s had for 28 years A lot of laughs and a few tears. EMS calls in the dead of night And a few fire calls that caused a fright. Dinners interrupted, Christmases too, The tones go off, what’s th...
U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., held a press call Thursday where he provided updates on his efforts in combating COVID-19 in Montana, the second CARES Act package, his recent bipartisan landmark veterans’ mental health bill, Amtrak and more. “Late last week, I had a groundbreaking piece of legislation pass called the Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care and Improvement Act,” Tester said. “It is a bill named after a Montana veteran. It will bolster Veterans Af...
Note: This is from the office of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester U.S. Sen. Jon Tester released Monday a statement as Amtrak’s cuts in service to the Empire Builder line, which crosses the entire state of Montana along the Hi-Line, go into effect. Those cuts reduce the number of trains running along the route from seven days a week to three. “I’ve been sounding the alarm for months that this reduction in service will be devastating to Hi-Line communities, economies, and families who use the train to visit family across the count...
ST. MARY DIVERSION - Local, state, tribal and federal partners along with Montana's congressional delegation gathered together Thursday at Drop 5 on the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works to celebrate the completion of fixing structures after catastrophic failure earlier this year. "I got the privilege of being the project engineer on this job, and it's a once-in-a-lifetime shot to come across a project like this," HDR Engineering Project Engineer Stan Schweissing said. "...
Note: This was provided by the office of U.S. Sen. Jon Tester Hundreds of rural Montana families are slated to receive improved access to high-speed internet, thanks to a $10,890,338 grant secured by U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Program. “It doesn’t matter where you live—high-speed internet is critical in the 21st century,” Tester said. “These funds will help give folks in south-central Montana the tools to stay connected, provide new opportunities for families, s...
Staff and wire reports Montana’s Democratic governor and lieutenant governor and U.S. senator Tuesday all blasted a U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning lower court decisions requiring the Census to continue counting through the end of the month. All three said ending the count early could lead to short counts in Montana, reducing federal funding to the state and potentially impacting whether Montana gets a second seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. “This is a disappointing act of judicial activism from the Sup...
Water was turned on for the first time Saturday to run through the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works "This has been such an unbelievable and at times overwhelming project to be a part of," Milk River Joint Board of Control Project Manager Jennifer Patrick said. "The teamwork, partnerships and honestly friendships that have been forged in 22 short weeks are incredible." Drop 5 collapsed earlier this year. Work on Drop 2 was already planned and work also was done on Drop...
By Alex Sakariassen, Kaiser Health News Throughout the 2020 election cycle, candidates' positions on health care have been particularly important for voters with underlying and often expensive medical needs - in short, those with pre-existing conditions. It's no surprise, then, that protections for people who have chronic health problems like diabetes and cancer have become a focal point for candidates nationwide - among them, Matt Rosendale, the Republican contender for...
Republican candidate State Auditor Matt Rosendale faces former state Rep. Kathleen Williams, D-Bozeman, faces in the race to take the seat of U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., in the U.S. House. Gianforte, who won a special election in 2017 to take the House seat when Ryan Zinke left to become secretary of the interior and defeated Williams to retain the seat in 2018, is running for Montana governor this year. He faces Democratic Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney and Libertarian Lyman Bis...
Former state Rep. Kathleen Williams, D-Bozeman, faces Republican candidate state Auditor Matt Rosendale in the race to take the seat of U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., in the U.S. House. Gianforte, who won a special election in 2017 to take the House seat when Ryan Zinke left to become secretary of the interior and defeated Williams to retain the seat in 2018, is running for Montana governor this year. He faces Democratic Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney and Libertarian Lyman Bishop...
The office of Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., reported that, due to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., recessing the Senate until Oct. 19 because of increasing cases of COVID-19, a hearing on Amtrak scheduled for Wednesday has postposed. Tester is pushing aggressively to get the hearing rescheduled as soon as it is safe to do so, his office said. McConnell has said Judiciary Committee hearings on the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett would confirm, but most of the workings of the Senate are on...
The Amtrak station in Havre still has yet to reinstate traditional ticket agents for the Empire Builder despite Congress having ordered Amtrak to do so last year and members of Montana’s congressional delegation have since responded, as has Amtrak. Amtrak Spokesperson Marc Magliari said Amtrak will have customer service representatives who will help people purchase their tickets online, but will not be able to sell tickets directly. He said those representatives can book a passenger themselves if they lack the ability to d...
The largest concrete pour to date took place last Friday on the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works, where the drop near the end of the 29-mile system of dams, dikes, canals, gigantic metal siphons and concrete drop structures failed in May. Work on Drop 2 was already planned for this year and is underway, and the work on Drop 5 was added after it failed May 17. Work also is being done on Drop 1. “(Friday) morning started the biggest pour to date, with right under 200 yards on the Drop 5 … wall which wrapped up (Fr...
With less than a week to the deadline for data collection in the 2020 U.S. Census, a federal District Judge has ordered the Census Bureau to again move the deadline back to Oct. 31. The Census originally was expected to be completed by July, but as the COVID-19 pandemic shut the nation down, The Census Bureau extended the deadline to the end of October. In late July or early August, the bureau moved the deadline back to Sept. 31. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh ordered the bureau to continue the count through Oct. 31. The...
Note: Information in this release was provided by the offices of Sen. Jon Tester and Rep. Greg Gianforte Editor’s note: This version includes a comment sent by the office of Sen. Steve Daines. A U.S. senator and U.S. representative praised the passage Monday of bills aimed at helping investigation of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Following years of constant pressure since originally introducing the Savanna’s Act and the Not Invisible Act, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, R-Mont., celebrated Monday the U.S. House passage of two...
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who is running against incumbent Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., for his seat in the U.S. Senate, visited Hill County Friday afternoon, meeting with local businessman and owner of Bergren Transmission and Auto Care Steve Neiffer to tour the business and meet with workers there to discuss their concerns, before heading to Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation for a rally with fellow Democratic candidates. Neiffer told Bullock that Bergrens has more or less...
Gov. Steve Bullock announced Tuesday that he was filing a lawsuit against U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over recent changes made at the United States Postal Service that Bullock argues are unlawful and have directly harmed Montanans by impeding the flow of mail. While Sen. Jon Tester D-Mont., and Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney have supported the lawsuit, Sen. Steve Daines R-Mont., has called it a political stunt, and Rep. Greg Gianforte R-Mont., has indicated a similar opinion. Daines is facing Bullock, a Democrat, in this...
The St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group met Friday and discussed how to move forward with paying for a rehabilitation of the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance. Sens. Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Steve Daines R-Mont., and Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., are trying to shift the funding for the system from about 75 percent provided by the users and 25 percent by the federal government so the federal government picks up about 75 percent of the cost of operation and maintenance....
Montana Lt. Gov. Mike Cooney held a campaign event Tuesday afternoon at Gibson Park in Great Falls, livestreamed over Facebook, to talk about his Growing Montana Plan, which he said is aimed at helping rural agriculture producers around the state amid uncertain economic times. Cooney is facing Rep. Greg Gianforte, R-Mont., Libertarian candidate Lyman Bishop and Robert Barb, who is running as a Green Party candidate, in the gubernatorial race in the 2020 general election. Cooney said the plan’s goal is to invest in Montana agr...
I know we can all agree that 2020 has been a challenging year — perhaps the most challenging year in a long time for many of us. This year is also important for many reasons, including that the federal government is conducting the 2020 decennial Census. This once-a-decade event is critically important for those of us who live in Montana, including here on the Hi-Line. As mandated in the Constitution, the Census works to count every resident of the United States and is used to determine representation in Congress as well as h...
