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2:45 a.m. With the unofficial results all counted in Hill County, an 18-year-old candidate pulled off an upset. Democrat Jacob Bachmeier, who filed as a candidate in House District 28 last winter before graduating from Havre High School in the spring, defeated first-term incumbent Rep. Stephanie Hess, R-Havre, 2,206-1,918. In the Hill County Commission race, Republican Hill County Superintendent of Schools Diane McLean won with 2,455 votes, narrowly defeating Democrat Jim Bedwell, who took 2,159 votes. Independent Ted...
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MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS — In a race fueled by millions of dollars from out-of-state political groups and donors, Democrat Denise Juneau has waged a rancorous fight to wrest Montana’s only U.S. House seat from Republicans for the first time in two decades. Standing between the state schools chief and her aspiration to become the first American Indian woman elected to Congress has been first-term incumbent Ryan Zinke. He has proven an adept fundraiser whose distinguished military career has made him a GOP fav...
MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA — Montana voters will decide on four citizen initiatives, the most in any election since 2010, alongside the top-of-the-ticket races for president, governor and U.S. House. The ballot measures ask voters to decide whether to ban trapping on public lands, relax the state’s medical marijuana law, fund brain research and insert a crime victims’ rights law into the state constitution. MEDICAL MARIJUANA: Initiative 182 would loosen many of the restrictions imposed on the state’s medical marijua...
MATT VOLZ Associated Press HELENA (AP) — As the race to become Montana’s next governor has tightened in its final weeks, bombastic rhetoric has all but overshadowed Democratic incumbent Steve Bullock’s and Republican challenger Greg Gianforte’s very different visions for the future of the state. Bullock, the state’s attorney general before being elected in 2012 as one of only 18 Democratic governors in the U.S., frames himself as a coalition builder and a champion of protecting public access to lands and waterways. Gianforte,...
A Havre High School student and soon-to-be first-time voter went before Havre City Council at their meeting Monday night and asked about a proposed ballot initiative that would change Havre’s government to a manager-commission government. Government class student Jesse Ann Riska, 18, who was at the meeting with three of her classmates, walked up to the podium during the portion of the meeting reserved for public comment. “I am a registered voter, so I can vote tomorrow, and I would like to know why this city needs a city man...
Monday night’s meeting revealed that the Hill County Park Board is one step closer to creating a finance and planning committee, as well as having an official park warden. A volunteer, Lou Hagener, presented board members and the public with a draft description of a potential finance and planning committee put together by an ad hoc committee. The draft says the committee will develop and recommend protocol for setting fees for products, services and uses of the parks. It will ask for input from the public as well as from e...
Stiffarm leadership summit fundraiser set for Saturday Havre Daily News staff A fundraiser to help Bryan Stiffarm attend an educational leadership conference at a top American college will be Saturday at the Havre Eagles Club. An Indian taco sale with raffles is set to run from 2 to 5 p.m. The fundraiser to help pay for Stiffarm’s trip to Harvard University in Cambridge, Masschusetts, for Ambassador Leadership Summit at the university. ‘Roll into Reading’ set Friday at Lincoln-McKinley Press release Lincoln-McKinley Primary S...
MISSOULA (AP) — Federal wildlife regulators are planning to reorganize the National Wildlife Refuge system in Montana and several other states, including Wyoming and Colorado, because of staff and program cuts. A draft report from U.S. Fish and Wildlife concluded some of the affected areas will have to rely on private landowners. U.S. Fish and Wildlife officials said the draft document has been in the works for three years. “Status quo is not an option,” said the report. “We cannot operate with high numbers of vacant positio...
Press release Medicare’s annual open enrollment is in full swing, with people having until Dec. 7 to review and, if desired, changing their Madicare drug plan or Medicare health — Advantage — plan. The most important thing people can ask themselves is, “How well has my current plan been serving me?” The annual open enrollment is the opportunity for people to review the medications and other services their plan covers. The main reason to review the plan annually is to make certain the plan is best for the person’s need at the...
Being gray doesn’t bother me. After all, at least I still have a full head of hair. I don’t have to do comb-overs, shave my head or wear a baseball cap backward 24 hours a day to pretend that I still have hair. Plus, gray hair looks distinguished. Strangers might mistake me for a doctor, a lawyer or even a high school graduate. At least they might, until I open my mouth and they realize that they’ve been cruelly deceived. The fact is that gray hair just means you’ve got a little age under your belt. But like many men, fo...
NorthWestern Energy’s property tax payments are going up this year, not down. In fact, they are going up 10 percent. NorthWestern’s property tax bills have made lots of headlines across Montana recently. We are the state’s largest property taxpayer, and our property taxes are one of our largest costs of doing business. As Montana’s largest provider of essential utility services, our prices are based on the cost of providing that service. Given that property taxes are a significant portion of our customers’ bills, it is ext...
MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS — Montana’s Crow Tribe has reimbursed the U.S. government more than $2 million that was intended to pay for the construction of a new transit building but was instead put into the tribe’s general budget, tribal and federal officials said. Federal investigators said in a report issued Monday that officials with the Bureau of Indian Affairs knew the money from a 2012 transportation grant was misspent and failed to take action. A 2013 audit of the tribe confirmed the misuse of the money...
Man sentenced for having drugs A man was sentenced Thursday in state District Court in Havre to five years of probation for having marijuana and unlawfully having prescription pills. Paul Robert Barrows, born in 1966, was sentenced to five years, all suspended, for criminal possession of dangerous drugs, a felony. The sentence was pursuant to a plea deal which dropped two misdemeanor charges. According to court documents, an investigator from Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation contacted a member of the Tri-Agency Safe Trails T...
Havre Police Department Officers investigated a theft report after a caller from Northern Montana Hospital caller reported Monday at 11 a.m. that the soda machine was broken into and money was missing. —— Officers assisted a citizen after someone came to the police department Monday at 3:35 p.m. to ask to speak to an officer. —— Officers investigated a theft report after someone came to the police department Monday at 4:14 p.m. to report a stolen ladder. Hill County Sheriff’s Office The Sheriff’s office secretary is off for...
Medicare open enrollment A Page 3 article in Friday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about Medicare open enrollment listed the incorrect phone number for people to call to contact a local SHIP counselor. The correct number is 265-5464....
Hazel Alma Petrus of Great Falls, 63, passed away Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016. A graveside service will be held Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016, at 11 a.m. at Mount Olivet Cemetery with Deacon Bill Medved presiding. O’Connor Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. Hazel was born March 1, 1953, to Ralph and Ruth Vaughn in Havre, Montana. She was one of four children. She attended schools in Havre and graduated from Havre High School. She married the love of her life, William Petrus. William and Hazel moved to Great Falls. Hazel loved t...
Nate Korb, Havre High Football Havre High senior Nate Korb recently finished a strong season as a two-way starter for the Blue Pony football team. Korb started at wide receiver and had a career-high nine catches against Belgrade last month. He was also among the Ponies’ leading tacklers, and had two interceptions as a safety, while also handling kickoff and punt return duties for the Blue Ponies. Korb also earned All-Conference honors as a junior and is a three-sport s...
The Montana State University-Northern cross country teams are new to racing still. Only in their second year, the Lights and Skylights are growing. Still, the 2016 Frontier Conference championships was a tough learning experience for head coach Chad Spangler's squads. Northern was in Helena last Friday for the conference championships, where both MSU-N teams finished in last place. The Skylights scored 157 points, while Carroll won the conference crown with a score of 36....
After beating the North Idaho Cardinals last week to open the season, and with two big duals looming this week, the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team was looking to gain mat experience this past Saturday. And the fourth-ranked Lights did just that as they competed in the NCAA Division I Cowboy Open in Laramie, Wyoming. The meet was, as expected, tough. But, a handful of Lights found success there, and many more gained valuable mat time. MSU-N sophomore Andrew...
The Chinook Sugarbeeters hadn’t felt the sting of a loss in volleyball since last November’s 2015 Northern C Divisional tournament. Fast forward one year, and the Beeters had to endure an even more difficult feeling. On Saturday, a spectacular Chinook season was brought to an end with a third-place finish at the Northern C Divisional in Conrad. Chinook’s final match was just its second loss of the season — a straight-set defeat at the hands of Great Falls Central. In that ma...
