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Havre Police Chief Gabe Matosich said in a release this morning that the lobby of the Havre Police Department is again closed due to the increase of cases of COVID-19 in the area. "We want to keep all of our staff healthy and safe," the release said. "With that being said, if you need assistance please call the Havre Police Department at 406-265-4361 to speak to the dispatcher, the release continued, "and, as always, if you have an emergency, please call 91...
Box Elder man killed by Billings Police Officers By: Patrick Johnston More details have been provided in a Billings police shooting that caused the death of a Box Elder man, including police reporting the Box Elder man pulled a gun on the officers. Billings Police Chief Rich St. John said during a press conference this morning that officers Ryland Nelson and Justin Bickford of the Billings Police Department shot a 29-year-old Box Elder man, whose name has yet to be released,...
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 911 with 294 active hospitalizations. The number of tests completed was 409,651 with 9,193 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 217. The number of recoveries was 11,620 and the number of active cases was 7,774. Local cases by county: Hill: 33 new cases, 402 total, 167 active, 7 active hospitalizations, 228 recovered, 7 deaths Liberty: No new cases, 27 total, 5 active, 22 recovered Blaine: 1 new case, 146 total, 74...
Havre Police Department An 11th Street caller reported Monday at 7:51 a.m. that a brick was thrown the back window of a car. Hill County Sheriff's Office A caller reported found or lost property at the gun range Friday at 3:03 p.m. -- Deputies assisted another agency Sunday at 4:59 p.m. on 38th Street Southeast. -- Darrin Dean Longfox of Havre, 24, was arrested on a charge of partner or family member assault after a 911 call with the line left open alerted dispatch to...
Press release HELENA — The Governor’s Office of Community Service, Reach Higher Montana, and Montana Campus Compact are pleased to announce applications are now being accepted for the 2021 Youth Serve Montana Scholarship. The Youth Serve Montana Scholarship was created to promote volunteerism among high school students. Funds are available through support from Montana Campus Compact, a network of Montana campuses committed to community service; Reach Higher Montana, a nonprofit dedicated to helping students pursue and fun...
Havre Daily News staff Any youth still wanting to sign up for the Hi-Line Rodeo Team’s Little Britches Rodeo have another opportunity to get entered after organizers announced an extension to the deadline. Youth do not have to be a Little Britches member to compete. The weekend competition, which is three rodeos over two days, is set to start 9 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday, and people can enter by calling or texting Michelle Burchard at 390-6570....
By Nate Hegyi Kaiser Health News LIBBY — Frank Fahland has spent most days since the pandemic began at the site of his dream house, working to finish a 15-year labor of love while keeping away from town and the people closest to him. Like thousands of people from Libby and Lincoln County in the far northwestern corner of Montana, the 61-year-old Fahland has scarred lungs after years of breathing in asbestos fibers from dust and soil contaminated by the town’s now-defunct plant that produced vermiculite, a mineral used in ins...
By Johnathan Hettinger Montana Free Press Montana has set multiple new records for COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the past week, and now ranks among the top states in the nation in daily new cases per capita. Hospitals in some of Montana’s largest cities are at or near capacity, while health care providers are pleading with people to heed public health advice. Public health departments say they aren’t able to keep up with contact tracing and feel powerless in the face of politically charged resistance to masks and...
The statewide surge in COVID-19 continues to hit this area as well, with four new deaths reported, more cases confirmed in Havre schools and a Havre Head Start facility closing for a week. Blaine County confirmed Friday its first COVID-19-related death and its second death Sunday, and Hill County confirmed its sixth and seventh deaths Saturday. This comes as the state and local health officials are urging people to take precautions to slow the spread of the virus that causes the disease, with Hill County Health Officer Kim...
In the past week, some businesses in the Havre area have announced temporarily shutdowns on their Facebook pages, and on signs on their doors, either because employees have been quarantined for COVID-19 exposure or as a precaution against the recent surge of cases in Hill County. Hill County Public Health Director and Health Officer Kim Larson said during the Hill County Health Board meeting Friday that these closures are beneficial to public health and she is glad that busine...
Havre Public Schools Board of Trustees Friday during an emergency meeting voted to keep the schools running as is for this week. The decision will be revisited at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Havre Middle School gymnasium. After the meeting ended, new cases were confirmed of people associated with the district, one Friday afternoon and nine more Sunday, bringing the total confirmed in the district since Sept. 20 to 20 cases. Interim Superintendent Craig Mueller posted an update on the district...
Hill County Public Health Director and Health Officer Kim Larson said during Friday’s Hill County Health Board’s weekly COVID-19 update call that board members will be considering ideas for how to slow the spread of COVID-19 in the county based on suggestions collected from the public in the past week. Larson said the most popular suggestions the department received were enforcing Gov. Steve Bullock’s mask mandate as well as shutting down schools, bars and casinos. These new considerations are in response to the recent surge...
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 291 with 904 active hospitalizations. The number of tests completed was 400,458 with 10,200 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 212. The number of recoveries was 11,481 and the number of active cases was 7,432. Local cases by county: Hill: 13 new cases, 369 total, 155 active, 3 active hospitalizations, 107 recovered, 7 deaths Liberty: 1 new case, 27 total, 6 active, 21 recovered Blaine: 4 new cases, 145 total, 87...
Staff and wire report Hill County Clerk and Recorder’s Office announced that the Hill County satellite voting office on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation will not be open Wednesday, Oct. 14, or Wednesday, Oct. 21, due to the reservation on lockdown. The satellite voting office is still scheduled to be open Oct. 28 and 29 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Stone Child College in the Foyer of the Kenawash Building at 8294 Upper Box Elder Road Ballots were mailed to all active registered voters Friday. Voters may return their ballots by mai...
Havre Police Department At 8:04 a.m. Friday, a Halloween Frankenstein yard decoration was reported stolen from Cleveland Avenue. -- A campaign sign was reported Friday at 8:44 a.m. stolen from a Boulevard Avenue yard. -- Someone stopped at the police station Friday at 10:16 a.m. to reported a sexual or violent offender registry violation. -- A Fifth Avenue caller asked Friday at 1:21 p.m. to speak with an officer about a stolen bike. -- A Friday 2:29 p.m. caller reported that...
In a front-page story in Friday’s edition of The Havre Daily News about the Hill County Commission’s weekly business meeting, it was misreported that Pam Harada raised a concern that caretakers in nursing home environments could fill out ballots for residents. Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson made that comment....
Editor’s note: This version corrects attribution for a comment about caretakers at care centers filling out residents’ ballots to Hill County Commissioner Mark Peterson. At its weekly business meeting Thursday, the Hill County Commission heard a request from Havre resident Pam Harada that the county’s election officials produce a post-election report on mail-in voting. Harada, who attended both meetings where mail-in ballots were discussed and spoke against the idea of allowing them in Hill County, said the commission shoul...
From MSU News Service BOZEMAN — Montana State University’s annual Crop and Pest Management School will not be offered in 2021 due to the pandemic, but pesticide applicators can attend other pest management events for pesticide license credits. The Crop and Pest Management School is an education and training event that has been held annually for producers, researchers and other agriculture specialists for more than 20 years. It is normally held during the first full week of January. Organizers plan to resume the regular sch...
Staff and wire report The Havre Jaycees has announced that, due to the risk of COVID-19, it will not hold its annual haunted house fundraised it holds during Halloween season each year. “Each year the Havre Jaycees do the Haunted House to bring some fun to our community and also take all of the canned food donations to our local food bank,” the service organization said in a post on its Facebook page. “It is by far one of our favorite projects that we enjoy putting on for the Havre area. “This year we have been faced with ma...
With the increase of cases around the state and in Hill, Chouteau, Blaine and Liberty county cases are being found in the schools as well, which is causing some to shift their plans, including Havre schools holding an emergency board meeting this afternoon and the Fort Belknap Indian Community asking Harlem schools canceling activities, as Hill County reported a record number of new cases. Hill County Health Department reported Thursday evening that 34 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the county. That puts the total in...
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont, faces Democratic Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who cannot run for re-election to that office due to term limits, in in Daines bid for a second term in the U.S. Senate. Daines, who is from Bozeman, said he has connections to north-central Montana. His great-great-grandmother settled 23 miles east of Conrad, he said. "I think in many ways that I didn't choose Montana, Montana got picked for me thanks to my great-great grandma and I feel lucky every day...
Democratic Montana Gov. Steve Bullock, who cannot run for re-election to that office due to term limits, is challenging the re-election bid of U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont. Bullock said his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic is a testament to how he would be in the Senate. "From the beginning, the federal government said this was locally executed, state managed and federally supported disaster, health emergency," Bullock said. "... We took aggressive actions up front in...
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 868 with 266 active hospitalizations. The number of tests completed was 386,746 with 5,081 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 206. The number of recoveries was 10,863 and the number of active cases was 6,330. Local cases by county: Hill: 34 new cases, 305 total, 117 active, 1 active hospitalizations, 183 recovered, 5 deaths Liberty: 2 new cases, 25 total, 5 active, 20 recovered Blaine: 4 new cases, 112 total, 74...
By Keith J. Doll Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission Earlier this year I was touching up and oiling my daughter's antique walnut desk. The desk was well cared for through the years, I can trace it back to two owners before my daughter got it. It has a serpentine front with claw feet. When I looked in the back, the shipping label read: Nelson Furniture Co. Havre, Montana, I did some research on it and this is what I found: In 1917, two brothers Robert and Curtis...
Press release A women’s diamond ring found Aug. 27 at a Havre business was turned in to Hill County Sheriff’s Office Thursday. Anyone missing a ring matching this general description and wanting its return can call the Sheriff’s Office and describe the ring in detail. People can contact Hill County Sheriff’s Office at 265-2512....
