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Editor’s note: A version of this story was posted on the Havre Daily News website Wednesday morning. The Blaine County coroner has released the name of the person who died early Monday morning when she was struck by a vehicle on U.S. Highway 2 while next to her broken-down truck. Blaine County Sheriff/Coroner John Colby said the victim was Angela Huschka of East Helena, 59. Montana Highway Patrol reports Huschka was struck at 2:03 a.m. Monday while trying to flag down vehicles around her truck, which was broken down, near m... Full story
A proposed budget for Amtrak in the House Committee on Appropriations has raised some alarms, including the CEO of the national passenger rail service saying cut from the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations will not work. “The funding levels proposed in the House FY24 transportation appropriations bill for Amtrak and FRA rail programs will stop the advancement of passenger rail in its tracks,” Amtrak CEO Stephen Gardner said in a statment. “If the proposed levels become law, Amtrak will have to radically reduce or suspend servi...
With the Havre Daily printing out-of-town until its press is again operational, its ownership has decided not to print Tuesdays and Thursdays until the Havre press is again running. The decision was relayed to Havre Daily after a story printed in Wednesday’s edition, saying the paper would print offsite Monday through Friday, already had been sent to Kalispell for printing. Havre Daily News Publisher Don Thoma thanked the paper’s readers for their patience and understanding over the last 15 months while Havre Daily wor...
An agreement to settle water rights issues and provide water to Fort Belknap Indian Community — and to people all along the Milk River — decades in the making took a major step forward this week when the Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act was heard in the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. “What this water settlement is going to mean for the people in Fort Belknap and in surrounding communities is clean drinking water, water for the future, like we ta... Full story
With the Havre Daily printing out-of-town until its press is again operational, its ownership has decided not to print Tuesdays and Thursdays until the Havre press is again running. The decision was relayed to Havre Daily after a story printed in Wednesday’s edition, saying the paper would print offsite Monday through Friday, already had been sent to Kalispell for printing. Havre Daily News Publisher Don Thoma thanked the paper’s readers for their patience and understanding over the last 15 months while Havre Daily wor... Full story
Editor’s note: This version has been updated to reflect Havre Daily News will be online only Tuesday’s and Thursdays until the paper’s press is again running. While the latest problems have again kept the Havre Daily News from publishing printed copies the last few days, and will limit printed copies for a week or two, Publisher Don Thoma said the light at the end of the tunnel seems to be near. “It’s been just one thing after another,” Thoma added. He said a fix for the latest problem, a glitch in the computerize...
The Havre Public Schools Education Foundation announced it has a new executive director with Krystal Steinmetz taking that position effective July 1. "After serving on the (education foundation) board of directors these past two years, I'm looking forward to supporting the foundation and our school district in a much larger capacity" as executive director, Steinmetz said in a release. "The (foundation) has a long tradition of supporting our schools and we're looking to...
An organization created to empower Native American communities has announced that it is starting a community tour this week with elected officials in north-central Montana. Western Native Voice said its Legislative Community Tour will start Wednesday with stops on Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, continuing Thursday on Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation. The tour aims to foster meaningful dialogue between elected officials and community members, promoting legislative accountability and strengthening civic engagement, a release f... Full story
The premiere fossil fest at Rudyard, a town with a long connection to paleontolgy and fossils, seems to have been a great success, with events Friday and all day Saturday. Friday included visits to the town's museums, including the Dinosaur Museum of the Depot and Dinosaur Museum, with world-class displays on exhibit. When a fossil of a duckbilled Gyrposaurus was found north of Rudyard at a Museum of the Rockies site - Shelby native Jack Horner, a world-famous paleontologist,... Full story
Havre Area Chamber of Commerce is inviting people to shop, and sell, at this year’s Saturday Market, which starts Saturday in Havre’s Town Square. “It is time to start thinking about the market,” a release from the Chamber said. “Many are already tending to their gardens for that great local produce, crafters are readying their inventory and bakers are checking their supplies for the preparation of those great home baked treats.” The market has become a tradition, with the Chamber organizing the market in which people can sel...
Several local libraries have received awards to help fund their public book clubs, The Montana Center for the Book announced. Liberty County Library Pathfinders Book Club Startup, Harlem Public Library Book Club and Havre-Hill County All Together Now Summer Reading Book Club each received $500 stipends from The Montana Center for the Book’s Big Sky Reads program, a press release said. The grants are part of $3,000 awarded to book clubs in six Montana communities. The Montana Center for the Book is a program of Humanities M...
Editor’s note: See a related story in the Farm and Ranch special section in today’s edition. A winter with plenty of snow — enough to cause a different problem with flooding — and ample spring rains has changed the listing for this region on the Montana map of the U.S. Drought Monitor. The maps released the last two Thursdays have shown no drought conditions in Blaine, Chouteau or Hill county, with dry conditions to the west just pushing into Liberty County. The western edge of Liberty County is listed as “Abnorm...
Smoky haze was in the air in this region today, with a chance of showers in the forecast tonight and through the Independence Day holiday Tuesday. The haze was predicted to remain through early tonight. The air quality monitoring stations in Havre, Malta and Great Falls all showed moderate air quality effects this morning, which the state Department of Environmental Quality Today's Air website says is acceptable but may have some risk for some people, especially those...
Law enforcement officials are asking people to plan ahead and be careful as they celebrate Independence Day over the weekend and on Tuesday’s July Fourth holiday. “If you’re celebrating this weekend or on the Fourth, be sure to make a plan for a safe ride home,” Havre Police Capt. Ryan Pearson said in a press release. “The important thing to know is how you will get home before you go out. Designate one of your friends as a sober driver, arrange for a cab or call a friend or family member. If you see your friends or family...
Meetings are set to begin planning for the next phase of rehabilitating the system that provides much — almost all in some years — of the water in the Milk River: the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works. The Milk River Joint Board of Control, in partnership with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Natural Resources Conservation Service, proposes to rehabilitate and modernize the St. Mary Canal and associated infrastructure along its existing alignment to improve agricultural water management. The agencies have set three pu...
Before a former Navy SEAL declared his candidacy in next year's race for one of Montana's U.S. Senate seats, incumbent Democrat Jon Tester said he was ready for a fight in his bid for a fourth term in the 2024 election. "Look, I'm used to tough elections," Tester said in a telephone press conference last week. Former SEAL and Belgrade-based Bridger Aerospace aerial firefighting company founder and CEO Tim Sheehy announced Monday he is entering the race as a Republican. "My lif... Full story
After a fairly long clear period, some thunderstorms and rainshowers are expected to hit this area over the weekend and into next week. After mild weather and just a trace of rain off and on in this part of the state for a week or more, the weather is likely to turn today. While bitter cold like the region saw over the winter hasn't come back - nothing below zero - record cold has set in including here. Havre has been hitting lows 10 to 15 degrees colder than normal, with a...
The Hill County Commission during its business meeting Thursday set a date for a public hearing on a proposed zoning change for a new location for selling agricultural chemicals. The commission set a hearing for 9 a.m. July 13 in the Commission Office in the Hill County Courthouse about Mountain View Co-op’s request to change some land just east of Havre and south of U.S. Highway 2 from agricultural to commercial zoning. Commissioner Mark Peterson said representatives of the company told the commission they want to erect a n...
The local ham radio club is inviting people to come watch — and use — amateur radios and take the opportunity to hunt for an electronic fox. Hi-Line Amateur Radio Club will be participating in the American Radio Relay League — ARRL — Field Day Saturday from noon to Sunday at US Bank Park on 11th Street west across from Montana State University-Northern’s Tilleman Field, club member Heather Hinckley said. Throughout the event, the club will be holding fox hunts, she added. “It’s called fox hunting, but it’s really hunting...
Car enthusiasts had a chance for a thrill Tuesday at Havre's Subway, when the drivers of 16 Model T's stopped for lunch during their trip in the 2023 Montana 500. The event takes minimally modified Model T's on a 500-mile race on Montana's roads. Dan Lukowski of Kansas City, Missouri, said he ran his 1926 Model T Roadster, which he calls The Rattle Can, when he first bought it in 2013. He hadn't run it since, but thought he would on the 10th anniversary, for the special...
The Daughters of the American Revolution have paid tribute to the community and its members who have spent decades paying tribute to 13 U.S. airmen who died as the result of a crash during a training exercise Nov. 30, 1992, over the town where the memorial was created. DAR presented the committee and the community its Excellence in Historic Preservation Medal for the Harlem Airmen's Memorial. Two U.S. Air Force cargo planes conducting nighttime training exercises at 25,000...
The members of the community of Harlem who have been paying tribute for more than 30 years to 13 airmen who died in a training were commemorated recently by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The Harlem Airmen Memorial Committee created a memorial at Harlem's Centennial Park to the airmen who died Nov. 30, 1992, and recently dedicated a bridge in their honor at the park as well. Daughters of the American Revolution presented the committee, and the community, its... Full story
Havre's hospital is in the process of converting into a critical access facility. Northern Montana Vice President of Regulatory and Community Services Christen Obresley said the change, which the hospital hopes to have in place by July 1, should be essentially invisible to its patients and members of the community. "The patients won't notice anything," she said Thursday. Obresley said the change is more in accounting, how information is reported to Medicare and Medicaid and...
Harlem Mayor and former state Sen. Ken "Kim" Hansen died of natural causes Saturday at age 71. Harlem City Clerk Becky Schroeder said City Council President Chris Green is serving as mayor, with a meeting scheduled for next Tuesday to decide whether he, or another council member, will finish out Hansen's term, which lasts until 2025. Hansen, who operated a farm near Harlem before moving to town, was born in 1951 and graduated from Harlem High School in 1971. He attended...
Evening summertime music is back in Havre starting Wednesday with the first Sounds on the Square scheduled to start at Havre’s Town Square at 6 p.m. The Havre Area Chamber of Commerce has been organizing free music at the square pretty much since it was created two decades ago. “Pack up that picnic basket and dine al fresco with friends, neighbors and family at the square all while enjoying the rhythm of the music from old favorites, country and rock,” a post from the Chamber says. “Large crowds enjoy the variety music p...
