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HELENA (AP) — Brian Schweitzer's surprise announcement that he won't run for the U.S. Senate dealt a big setback to Democratic plans to retain Max Baucus' seat. However, party officials said Monday they still believe they are in a strong position to hold the seat even without the former governor. Attention shifted to Insurance Commissioner Monica Lindeen and Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau and others. Lindeen said Monday that she would like to make a decision before Labor Day. Other names being c...
A Havre Police Department’s community resource officer will split his time between Havre High school and Montana State University-Northern in the coming school year. The officer, Detective Ryan Pearson, will interact with students and develop lines of communication as well as handle any emergencies that take place. Under the arrangement, the city of Havre will pay Pearson’s salary, while the university and the Havre School District will pay for overtime and benefits. Havre School Superintendent Andy Carlson said that wil...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana prison officials revised lethal-injection procedures after a judge ruled the previous methods were unconstitutional, but a civil rights organization and attorneys for a death row inmate say the changes still put condemned prisoners at risk of unnecessary suffering. The ACLU, which filed its lawsuit in 2008 on behalf of inmate Ronald Allen Smith, said Monday the changes still fall short of protecting the rights of people sentenced to death. "This new policy, written by Department of Corrections' s...
GREAT FALLS (AP) — Federal wildlife officials say a bear mauled a woman who was hiking north of Duck Lake on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service grizzly bear recovery coordinator Chris Servheen says that the woman told Blackfeet tribal wildlife authorities that the bear was a grizzly, but that hasn't been confirmed. Servheen says tribal officials told him the woman was hiking with dogs late last week when they came upon a horse carcass that the bear was likely defending. The Great Falls Tribune r...
The annual Relay for Life is designed to give people who have cancer hope that they can overcome their disease, while raising funds to help fight the disease. When she was 3 years old, Mariah Sheehy was given a 10 percent chance of living. She went through a series of tests, treatments and operations and was hospitalized for 40 days. “God must have had great plans for me because he saved me,” Mariah, now a 16-year-old Havre High School student, told the crowd Friday night at...
A crowd gathered for the official ceremony Friday to mark the official start of the next major medical development in Havre — the new clinic for the Bullhook Community Health Center. “This is seven years of dreaming and two years of focused planning to really get to where we are today,” Todd Hanson, chair of Bullhook’s board of directors, said after the first shovels of dirt were turned with gold-plated shovels. Close to 60 people attended the ceremony, with Hanson joined...
The 100-year-old county fair starts this week in Havre, with something old and something new for people who attend the annual festivities. “It’s a year of changes,” fairgrounds manager Tim Solomon said. For a full preview of the fair, see the special section inserted in today’s edition of the Havre Daily News. With the exit of a longtime attraction at the fair, the local and professional truck pull, some events have moved to new days and an attraction new to the Hill County fair has been brought in. Along with the new eve...
After a great start to the state tournament weekend, the Havre Babe Ruth 13U All Stars ran into two very tough programs. Havre hosted the 13U state tournament at Legion Field in Havre, as all stars from Havre, Glendive, Kalispell, Glacier, Hi-Line (Glasgow), and Helena all faced off, all with the hopes of claiming the 2013 state title. The tournament began o Thursday, and ran through Sunday, as Glacier finished the weekend with a 3-1 record and took home the title. Kalispell...
Summer seemed like it only arrived in Havre yesterday. But the Great Northern Fair usually marks the halfway point in Havre’s summers, and that halfway point has arrived. The annual Great Northern Fair begins Wednesday, and the sports scene at the fair will be as busy as ever. However, there are some changes to the sport’s schedule this week. One major change is, there are no longer local and professional truck pulls. The truck pull used to occupy the Saturday sports slot at...
Beaver Creek Golf Course. To golfers in Havre, those words are synonymous with the history of golf on the Hi-Line. In fact, there was a time when BCGC, the famed 9-hole course west of Havre, was truly the lone public course between Shelby to the west, Malta to the east and Fort Benton to the south. Of course, the golf course boom in Montana over the last three-plus decades has changed that, and soon, Havre will have a full 18-hole course at Prairie Farms. But as it relates to...
There seems to have been a great number of natural and man-made disasters in recent months. Within the last 60 days, there has a fertilizer explosion in the tiny town of West, Texas, and in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, a train carrying crude oil crashed in the middle of town. Fifty people were killed, many of them vaporized. These tragedies have prompted local officials to begin planning. They are considering: What would happen if such an event were to happen in Havre or elsewhere on the Hi-Line? Trains generally slow down as they...
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If you are in need of a little inspiration, stop at next year’s Relay for Life at Havre High School. Cancer has torn apart many lives — lives of young people and old people. And both young and old were on hand Friday night to tell their stories of survival and offer encouragement to those who have recently discovered they have cancer. Their stories are inspirational. Dylan Hendrickson, 13, shrugged off the attention he was getting at Friday’s Relay for Life, but his parents, Scott and Jennifer, were proud of what he’d...
Havre Police Department During a motor vehicle stop on U.S. Highway 2 East Friday at 3:01 p.m. an officer arrested a 22-year-old Box Elder woman for driving with a suspended or revoked driver's license and criminal contempt. ——— After a child around 4 years old was reported walking alone down the street near 4h Avenue and 7th Street at 4:05 p.m. Friday, officers issued a summons to a 24-year-od Havre woman for endangering the welfare of children. ——— A 3rd Street caller reported Friday at 5:40 p.m. a neighbor's house being ro...
During a Senate field hearing in Havre Friday, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester and U.S. Rep. Steve Daines heard more than just about securing the border. They also heard that Canadian trade is crucial to the local economy, and that more needs to be done to promote that trade. Havre Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Debbie Vandeberg testified that Canadian trade might be the only reason the Havre area weathered the Great Recession as well as it did, with some businesses estimating that, at times during the holiday season, half...
Byron Keith Wright, 59, passed away Thursday evening at the Northern Montana Hospital of congestive heart failure. His wake service will be at 7 p.m. Sunday, July 14, 2013, at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church with his funeral service 9 a.m. Monday at the Rocky Boy Catholic Church with Father Pete Guthneck officiating. Burial will be held at 10:30 a.m. at Highland Cemetery in Havre where he will be laid to rest with his mother, Julia. Services and arrangements have been entrusted...
Some common themes came out of Friday’s U.S. Senate field hearing — the second held in Havre in five years — including the need for agencies to communicate and cooperate, the need for more funding, and the need for regular hours and easier access at the border. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., convened a field hearing of the subcommittee he chairs which is part of the Homeland Security committee, with Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., a member of the House Homeland Security Commi...
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