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Fort Belknap Indian Community has announced that Fort Belknap Indian Reservation will go into complete shut down at 11:59 p.m. due to the number of cases of COVID-19 confirmed on the reservation and in Blaine County in the last week. The shut down will go from Froday through 11:59 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, the announcement posted on the Fort Beknap Indian Community webpage said. The reservation will be placed on shut down "to continue on contact tracing, quarantine and isolation... Full story
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 717 with 170 active hospitalizations. The number of tests completed was 343,158 with 3,232 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 180. The number of recoveries was 9.256 and the number of active cases was 3,635. Local cases by county: Hill: 10 new cases, 186 total, 43 active, 1 active hospitalizations, 140 recovered, 3 deaths Liberty: No new cases, 20 total, 6 active, 14 recovered Blaine: 6 new cases, 35 total, 17 active,... Full story
Havre Police Department Joshua Robert-Monroe Guyton of Havre, 24, was arrested on charges of trespass to property and resisting arrest after an officer stopped on First Avenue Tuesday at 5:04 p.m. to investigate suspicious activity. -- A vehicle crash was reported on First Street Tuesday at 5:09 p.m. -- A crash involving an automobile and a motorcycle was reported Tuesday at 6:40 p.m. on Second Street. -- A 12-year-old Havre girl was arrested on charges of partner of family...
Press release GREAT FALLS — As part of its efforts to promote Montana’s world class wheat and barley, the Montana Wheat and Barley Committee released a second educational video aimed at helping buyers understand the grain sampling and grading process from start to finish. The footage was produced as one of four videos in a series focused on demonstrating the steps taken by Montana’s certified federal grain inspectors to guarantee grain grades that are exactly proportionate to purchase prices. Since the onset of COVID...
MSU News Service BOZEMAN — The Montana State University Pesticide Education Program is offering a pest management tour for pesticide applicators at eight locations across north-central Montana on Oct. 6, 8 and 9. Those in the state’s Private Applicator Training District 3 need to earn six private applicator credits before Jan to avoid losing their certification, said Cecil Tharp, MSU pesticide education specialist. District 3 includes Blaine, Cascade, Chouteau, Glacier, Hill, Liberty, Pondera, Teton and Toole counties. App...
Both Harlem and Box Elder public schools have closed their buildings after cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the districts and moved back to distanced learning. Harlem School District announced Monday that at 10 a.m. it was notified that a school district staff member tested positive for COVID-19 and in-class school has been dismissed. "School officials are working closely and consistently with both Fort Belknap Tribal Health and Blaine County Health Department to determine... Full story
Big Sky businessman Troy Downing is facing off against Democrat candidate Rep. Shane Morigeau of Missoula and Libertarian candidate Roger Roots of Livingston in the general election in the race for Matt Rosendale's place as Montana auditor. Rosendale, a Republican, is running for the U.S. House instead of running for re-election and faces former Rep. Kathleen Williams, D-Bozeman, in the race for that seat, being vacated by U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte. Gianforte is running for...
Rep. Shane Morigeau, D-Missoula, is facing off against Republican Big Sky businessman Troy Downing and Libertarian Roger Roots of Livingston in the general election in the race for Matt Rosendale's place as Montana auditor. Rosendale, a Republican, is running for the U.S. House instead of running for re-election and faces former Rep. Kathleen Williams, D-Bozeman, in the race for that seat, being vacated by U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte. Gianforte is running for Montana governor ins...
Libertarian candidate Roger Roots of Livingston is facing Big Sky businessman Troy Downing and Democrat candidate Rep. Shane Morigeau of Missoula in the general election in the race for Matt Rosendale's place as Montana auditor. Rosendale, a Republican, is running for the U.S. House instead of running for re-election and faces former Rep. Kathleen Williams, D-Bozeman, in the race for that seat, being vacated by U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte. Gianforte is running for Montana...
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...
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 709 with 166 active hospitalizations. The number of tests completed was 339,926 with 2,730 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 177. The number of recoveries was 9,093 and the number of active cases was 3,454. Local cases by county: Hill: 7 new cases, 176 total, 47 active, 2 active hospitalizations, 126 recovered, 3 deaths Liberty: 1 new case, 20 total, 6 active, 14 recovered Blaine: 7 new cases, 29 total, 11 active, 18... Full story
Shawn Keith Rosette was sentenced to five years probation for obtaining and distributing drugs while in jail, to follow five- and three-year sentences in other cases. Rosette was charged Aug. 12 with two counts of criminal possession of dangerous drugs and two counts of transferring illicit materials, all felonies, after detention center personnel found the drug suboxone concealed in letters sent to him in the jail awaiting action in the other cases. Rosette was charged in...
The Hill County Commission will hold its business meeting Thursday at 10 a.m. The meeting agenda is: Public Comments on Non-Agenda items: Public Comments on Agenda Items: Claims: Employment: Resolutions: Ordinances: Contracts PILOT Agreement Oakwood Village Board Appointments: Policy Updates: County Permit Approval: Subdivision/survey approval Survey — Bergren family gift Survey — Huston relocation of common boundaries County Needs District 4 Human Resources Development Council Community Needs Assessment update Control pan...
Brandy E. Winchell was sentenced in state District Court in Havre to a total of five years probation for violating conditions of her release in one drug case and on a new drug charge. Winchell was charged with criminal possession of drugs in January while serving a two-year suspended sentence on possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, which was imposed to run after a four-year suspended sentence imposed on a 2014 charge of distribution of dangerous drugs at the same July...
Havre Police Department A caller on First Street Northeast asked Monday at 8:18 a.m. for assistance from officers. -- Officers assisted with a medical call at 11:44 a.m. Monday on First Street Northeast. -- Tiffany Mariah Cash-Peet of Havre, 24, was issued a summons on an unlisted charge related to a remote breathalyzer violation reported to the police station Monday at 1:31 p.m. -- Lorraine Henderson of Box Elder. 18, was arrested on charges of shoplifting and minor in...
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic health care is more important than ever, and with open enrollment for Medicare beginning Oct. 15, Montana seniors may have questions about how to sign up and make sure they are properly covered. These decisions can have significant effects on people’s coverage for the next year and the process often prompts questions from enrollees, especially if they’ve just turned 65 and are enrolling for the first time. UnitedHealthcare of Montana recently put out a release that said there are three common que...
The Hill County Health Department held its weekly COVID-19 update last Friday where members discussed Havre Public Schools proposed re-opening plans and the statewide rise in COVID-19 cases, as well as the upcoming flu season. Hill County Health Officer Jessica Sheehy, who has announced her resignation effective Oct. 1, said the county continues to see fluxes of cases as the health department continues to contact trace. She said Montana as a whole is seeing a rise in cases with records continuing to be set. “We’re cer...
Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen again faces Democrat Melissa Romano in a repeat of the 2016 superintendent election, with Libertarian candidate Kevin Leatherbarrow a contender in the 2020 race. "We are a constitutional office, which means one of five offices that are on the statewide elected basis, and that also means I serve on the Land Board where we have our school trust lands that are predominately grazed because agriculture is our number one...
Libertarian Kevin Leatherbarrow has entered the ring in the race in which Democrat Melissa Romano is challenging Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Elsie Arntzen in a rematch of their 2016 election. A Libertarian means fiscal responsibility and accountability, Leatherbarrow said. "Making sure that these things, these funds and spending goes to where it needs to be going," he said. He said being very heavily fiscally responsible and accountable goes along with what...
The Montana superintendent of public instruction race sees Democrat Melissa Romano facing incumbent Republican Elsie Arntzen in a rematch of the 2016 election, with Libertarian Kevin Leatherbarrow challenging both in this year's race. Romano said the position is of crucial importance. "The state superintendent has general oversight of all the K-12 schools in Montana," Romano said. "They serve on the Board of Education as a non-voting member, and so there is an opportunity to...
The number of hospitalizations, including people hospitalized before being tested, was 698 with 158 active hospitalizations. The number of tests completed was 337,196 with 6,889 new tests listed this morning. The number of deaths was 174. The number of recoveries was 8,839 and the number of active cases was 3,400. Local cases by county: Hill: 19 new cases, 169 total, 44 active, 2 active hospitalizations, 122 recovered, 3 deaths Liberty: No new cases, 19 total, 5 active, 14 recovered Blaine: 1 new case, 22 total, 5 active, 17... Full story
Northern Montana Health Care announced Sunday afternoon that it was notified that Northern Montana Care Center has several more COVID-19 positive cases, in eight residents as well as in employees, at the care center. The announcement comes as the Hill County Health Department reported Sunday a total of 19 new cases in the county. Hill County has a total of 169 cases, the health department reportes, with 44 active and two hospitalized with 122 recoveries and three deaths. Rocky Boy Boy Health Center reported Sunday it has one...
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...
A front-page story in Friday’s edition of The Havre Daily News about a District 4 Human Resources Development Council Census event coming up Wednesday misreported that the 2020 Census deadline was Oct. 31. The deadline was Sept. 31, Wednesday, although a judge Friday ordered the Census Bureau to move he deadline back to Oct. 31.... Full story
Havre Police Department A two-vehicle crash at 11th Street West and Lincoln Avenue was reported Friday at 7:35 a.m. -- A caller reported Friday at 10:58 a.m. what looked like items from a garage dumped behind a first Street West commercial building. -- A shoplifter was reported by a caller at a First Street business Friday at 11:38 a.m. -- A dog bite was reported at 9:48 a.m. Saturday by the hospital. -- Saturday at 10:41 a.m., a Grant Avenue caller reported a car had been...
