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  • Whitetail buck shot in Beaver Creek County Park, wardens seeking information

    Updated Nov 13, 2024

    From Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks game wardens are seeking any information regarding a mature whitetail buck that was shot and left to waste in Beaver Creek County Park south of Havre. The park is closed to all hunting activity. Wardens received a report of the dead deer, which was found near the intersection of Eagle Rock Road and Highway 234 (Beaver Creek Highway). The deer was shot with a firearm, and likely killed between the evening...

  • MSU-Northern Community Orchestra presents 'Jazz Connections: Where Styles Converge'

    Updated Nov 7, 2024

    Press release The Montana State University-Northern Community Orchestra is thrilled to invite the community to a vibrant evening of jazz with their upcoming concert, Jazz Connections: Where Styles Converge. Join us on Thursday, November 14, at 7:00 pm in the Little Theatre for a captivating musical experience. This special event will feature a variety of jazz styles, promising an enjoyable night for all ages. The program includes beloved jazz standards such as “All of Me,” “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You,” “My Funny Valen...

  • Havre Girl Scout earns prestigious Gold Award

    Updated Nov 7, 2024

    Press release Billings - Girl Scouts of Montana and Wyoming announced Liliana Smith of Havre has earned her Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest achievement a Girl Scout can earn. Gold Award Girl Scouts, like Smith, are changing the world today-their ingenuity enables them to meaningfully address some of the most pressing issues facing their communities and the world. For her Gold Award project, Smith partnered with her local dance studio to offer a free Intro to Dance class gea...

  • Celebrating History: Elections 100 years ago

    Updated Nov 7, 2024

    By Emily Mayer As today, the big news exactly 100 years ago was the election. I have had the opportunity to read those newspapers from a century ago, fully realizing the sobering reality that the unseemliness of today’s election is, it’s nothing compared to what was going on in 1924. Attacks on the voter registration list were launched in Butte, only to be thrown out by the Montana Supreme Court. The Governor of New Mexico sent National Guard troops to Las Vegas, New Mexico, to ensure that voters would not be intimidated bec...

  • "Always the Wind" book update discussion set

    Updated Nov 7, 2024

    Press release The possibility of updating the book “Always the Wind” will be discussed at a meeting on Thursday, November 21, 2024 at “The Bridge” at 2:00pm. “The Bridge” is located at 586 Bullhook Drive SE. All interested neighbors, descendants and friends are invited. “Always the Wind” is a book written in 1975 about the homesteaders in the St. Joe area north of Havre from the town north to the Canadian border. The writers worked tirelessly to contact as many descendants of the original homesteaders as possible. It tr...

  • Election right around the corner

    Tim Leeds|Updated Nov 6, 2024

    The polls will be open for people to cast their ballots next Tuesday in person, although mail-in ballots have been out for several weeks. Due to printing deadlines, Havre Weekly Chronicle will not be able to publish a story on the results in next week’s print edition, but people can look for updates and results at www.havredaillynews.com Tuesday night and Wednesday. The election has several hotly contested elections, from the top down to local races. The most visible race is for president, with Republican former president D...

  • Polls closed in Montana

    Updated Nov 5, 2024

    Posted 8:10 p.m. The Associated Press at 8 p.m. Mountain Time called the Montana gubernatorial race for incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte. Gianforte faced Democratic challenger Ryan Busse, a former gun company executive. AP also called the presidential race in the state for Republican former President Donald Trump. Posted 8:05 p.m. The polls have closed in Montana and the results of the 2024 election in the state soon will be known. Watch here for updates on election results....

  • Election Day

    Updated Nov 5, 2024

  • Justice Department to monitor election law compliance in Blaine County

    Updated Nov 4, 2024

    U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana BILLINGS — United States Attorney Jesse Laslovich announced Friday that the Justice Department will monitor compliance with federal voting rights laws in Blaine County for the Nov. 5 general election. The Justice Department enforces federal voting rights laws that protect the rights of all eligible citizens to access the ballot. The department regularly deploys its staff to monitor for compliance with federal civil rights laws in elections in communities all across the country. T...

  • Quick pics: Having a lie-down by the water tower

    Updated Nov 4, 2024

  • ELF Food Drive set for Wednesday

    Updated Nov 4, 2024

    Havre firefighters will be out with lights flashing on their vehicles and sirens on Wednesday night collecting food for the Havre Food Bank in their Everybody Loves Firefighters food drive. Head Elf Cody McLain said the firefighters will be out from about 6-9 p.m. Wednesday, and if people can put out any food they want to donate and leave the outside lights on so the firefighters know a donation is there. "It's basically like a trick-or-treat situation," he said. The...

  • House fire damages home, injures one

    Updated Oct 31, 2024

    From Havre Fire Department Havre firefighters were dispatched Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7:36 p.m. for a report of a structure fire in the 1300 Block of 4th Street. En route, Engine 1 was advised fire was in the basement with one possible victim. On arrival, Engine 1 reported a single family residence with smoke showing from the front door. The house was located off the alley, so crews had to stretch firehose down the alley for fire attack. As crews made their way to the house, they encountered a burn victim with burns to his hand...

  • MAT brings Rocky Horror Picture Show to Havre

    Christy Ulmen|Updated Oct 31, 2024

    Montana Actor’s Theatre is showing, and bringing to life, for the Halloween season a classic sci-fi horror show . In the cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the main characters, Brad and Janet, are stuck with a flat tire during a storm. The couple discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite scientist. Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a biker and a creepy butler. Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation, a man named Rocky, through dance and song. The movie provi...

  • Big Sandy Medical Center awarded $125K grant

    Updated Oct 31, 2024

    By Jessica Ophus According to KFF, a nonprofit health policy research, polling, and news organization, Montanans have a higher rate of anxiety and depressive disorders than the natational average. If that is not concerning enough, Montana is also listed as a mental health care shortage area. To do our part to bridge the gap for some of the 27,000 people served by the Big Sandy Clinic every year, an Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) Program will be launched at the BSMC Rural Health Clinic. With the help of a $125,000 2-year...

  • Hi-Line Arts Council hosts Montana Conversation "Montana Towns, then, now and tomorrow," with Hal Stearns

    Updated Oct 31, 2024

    Press release With assistance from Humanities Montana, the Hi-Line Arts Council is sponsoring a Montana Conversation program entitled "Montana Towns: Then, Now, Tomorrow" with storyteller Hal Stearns on Monday, November 11th at 6 p.m. at Beaver Creek Perk, located in downtown Havre at 137 Second Street. The presentation is free and open to the public. Funding for the Montana Conversations program is provided by Humanities Montana through grants from the National Endowment for...

  • Students organize march to support CI-128

    Updated Oct 28, 2024

    Editor's note: This version corrects several errors in the print edition and adds the text of CI-128 that the article said would be included. A Havre HIgh School student organized a march Monday in support of CI-128, the initiative that would put a woman being able to choose to have an abortion in the state Constitution. Dylan Kunz, 16, organized to march to start at the Havre High School West Parking Lot Monday and proceed to Hensler Auditorium in Montana State...

  • Pipe replacement delivered for St. Mary Siphon

    Updated Oct 24, 2024

    Staff and wire report U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced last week that the the first sections of the 90-inch replacement pipe for the St. Mary Siphon had arrived, marking a major milestone of the extensive project to restore the damaged siphon. This milestone sets the stage for replacing the critical infrastructure that delivers water to the Milk River Project, a lifeline for north-central Montana ranchers, farmers, and communities. "This delivery of the replacement pipe...

  • Busse, Graybill schedule eastern Montana town halls

    Updated Oct 24, 2024

    Press release Former firearms executive and candidate for governor Ryan Busse and lieutenant governor candidate Raph Graybill have scheduled four more public town hall meetings including in Havre as they crisscross Montana in the final days of the election. Busse and Graybill will host four additional town halls in Havre, Glasgow, Sidney and Glendive October 28 through October 30. They have held similar events in Kalispell (Oct. 7), Bozeman (Oct. 9), Great Falls (Oct. 10), Billings (Oct. 15), Missoula (Oct. 16) and Butte...

  • Pipe replacement delivered for St. Mary Siphon  

    Updated Oct 22, 2024

    Press release U.S. Bureau of Reclamation received the first sections of the 90-inch replacement pipe for the St. Mary Siphon, marking a major milestone of the extensive project to restore the damaged siphon. This milestone sets the stage for replacing the critical infrastructure that delivers water to the Milk River Project, a lifeline for north-central Montana ranchers, farmers, and communities. The St. Mary Siphon is an essential component of the Milk River Project, one of M...

  • March planned in support of CI-128 Monday

    Updated Oct 18, 2024

    A Havre HIgh School student is organizing a march Monday in support of CI-126, the initiative that would put a woman being able to choose to have an abortion in the state Constitution. Dylan Kunz, 16, said the march will start at the Havre High School West Parking Lot Monday at 6 p.m. and proceed to Hensler Auditorium in Montana State University-Northern's Applied Technology Center, where a presentation on CI-126, the open primary initiative, and CI-127, which requires a...

  • The 'Enemy of the People' comes to Havre

    Updated Oct 18, 2024

    Havre Daily News staff Montana Actors' Theatre is opening tonight a presentation of a modern classic. "'Enemy of the People' by Henrik Ibsen is one of the cornerstones of modern drama," director Grant Olson said. "This play, written in 1882, was the basis for the plot of 'Jaws,' and touches upon many universal themes and problems that we are still encountering today. The description on the MAT websites says the story is that a small Norwegian town has just begun to win fame...

  • Park Board discusses funding for new Camp Kiwanis lodge

    Christy Ulmen|Updated Oct 17, 2024

    Editor's note: Due to an error in the editorial department, this story did not run in the Oct. 10, 2024, edition as scheduled. Hill County Park board members met Monday evening and talked about issues including funding for the new Camp Kiwanis Lodge. The board is looking to get help from the public with funding for the lodge. The costs for this project have exceeded what the board has saved up for, and the intention is to begin raising more money to complete the project. The...

  • Health Advisories on Havre public water supply lifted

    Updated Oct 17, 2024

    Press release City of Havre PWS ID # MT0000524 11 October 2024 During the month of February 2024, the City of Havre Water Treatment Plant experienced failures in filtration treatment and disinfection. On the 19th of April 2024, the City of Havre public water supply issued a boil water advisory due to a giardiasis outbreak. This boil water advisory was downgraded to a health advisory on the 29th of May 2024. This health advisory was to remain in effect until the public water supply distribution system was flushed, additional m...

  • LWV of Montana Provides Voter Education Tool VOTE411

    Updated Oct 17, 2024

    Press release With absentee ballots for the general election arriving in mailboxes, the League of Women Voters of Montana offers the nonpartisan election resource VOTE411.org. This “one-stop shop” for election information provides Montana voters with simple, accessible tools to help them navigate the voting process. VOTE411 provides personalized candidate information, voter registration details, polling place locations, and other helpful election information for all voters nationwide. “From local ballot initiatives to impor...

  • Northern Montana Hospital receives state volunteer award

    Updated Oct 17, 2024

    Crystal J. Glade Northern Montana Health Care marketing and public relations coordinator Northern Montana Care Center in Havre recently received the Montana Health Care Association's 2024 Group Volunteer of the Year Award for its "Introduction to Volunteering" class, led by Volunteer Services Director Elizabeth (Lizzy) Lindbom, who traveled to Helena last week to accept the award. The Introduction to Volunteering class was created to give younger students, whose parents are...

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