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For the second year in a row, Havre Public Schools will be able to cancel the spring elections. The school board Tuesday voted unanimously to cancel the election because the trustee race has only three candidates for three seats and there will be no mill levy request. Canceling the election will save taxpayers $5,000 to $7,000, School Superintendent Andy Carlson said. Incumbents Norm Proctor and Theresa Miller will run for three year terms, while newcomer Ed Hill will seek the two-year position that is up this year. But...
HELENA (AP) — A $180 million state plan to build education and other buildings — including automotive-diesel technology building at Montana State University-Northern — in order to spur jobs is hitting a roadblock. The Senate Finance and Claims Committee agreed Wednesday in a bipartisan vote to table the plan. Chairman Rick Ripley of Wolf Creek says the bill was just too expensive. He says lawmakers need to start trimming priorities with just 15 days left to balance a budget. Gov. Steve Bullock wants to issue low-i...
HELENA (AP) — The woman who led the court battle to strike down a Montana law that made gay sex illegal knows that having the unconstitutional law struck from the books is a symbolic act. All the same, Linda Gryczan began to cry when the state House finally brought the issue to the floor on Monday. She tells the Great Falls Tribune she didn't realize until then how important it was to remove the law from the state code. The bill striking the law passed a final vote in the House Wednesday. It now goes to Gov. Steve Bullock. G...
HELENA (AP) — Montana Department of Military Affairs leaders are asking their employees to participate in a workplace assessment after a study found distrust and dysfunction within the division responsible for emergency preparedness. The Department of Administration is conducting the survey. A link to an online questionnaire was sent to employees last week, with responses due April 17, Adjutant Gen. Matthew Quinn told a panel of state lawmakers Wednesday. A state human resources team will discuss the results with staffers a...
MISSOULA — Elouise Cobell had a way of sorting through complex Native American land ownership tangles and combing out what's right. It's part of the legacy the leader from the Blackfeet tribe left behind when she died in 2011, and one that still resounds with Terry Payne. "Elouise had a voracious appetite for justice, and she was an inspiration to me and so many other people," said Payne, a Missoula businessman whose family was the lead donor for construction of the Payne Family Native American Center on the University of Mon...
FLORENCE (AP) — A western Montana school board is considering holding a special meeting to discuss the future of the superintendent following an act of plagiarism. Florence-Carlton School District Board of Trustees chairwoman Pat Appleby tells The Ravalli Republic a decision will likely be made at their regular meeting Tuesday. Superintendent John McGee apologized earlier this year for copying the work of Fulton County School System Superintendent Robert Avossa after an anonymous blogger posted a link to the Georgia o...
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican insists that the cardinals participating in the upcoming conclave will vote their conscience, each influenced only by silent prayers and reflection. Everybody knows, however, that power plays, vested interests and Machiavellian maneuvering are all part of the game, and that the horse-trading is already under way. Can the fractious Italians rally behind a single candidate? Can the Americans live up to their surprise billing as a power broker? And will all 115 cardinals from around the world be a...
As a team, the Montana State University-Northern Lights were certainly elated when they found out they had received an at-large berth in the 2013 NAIA national tournament last Wednesday night. But collectively, the Lights w The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team poses for a photo shortly after arriving in Kansas City Sunday night. The Lights have three days to prepare for the opening round of the NAIA national tournament, which gets underway Wednesday....
The Havre Ice Hawks high school hockey team may have entered the state tournament as a sixth seed, but they were there to play for a championship. And though the Ice Hawks didn't advance to the placement round on Sunday, they gave three teams a run for their money, including earning a solid win, and finishing the weekend 1-2. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, the Ice Hawks were in Bozeman for the high school hockey state tournament. They took on No. 4 Billings and No. 8 Butte/Miles City on Friday, and then faced No. 1 Helena...
After a first-round win over Melstone at the state C boys basketball tournament, the District 9C Big Sandy Pioneers suffered two consecutive devastating losses to end the 2012-13 season. The Pioneers entered the tournament as the No. 2 seed out of the North and quickly found themselves one game away from the title game. But after a very unfortunate loss at the buzzer in the semifinals on Friday, and another loss in loser-out action on Saturday, the Pioneers great postseason run finally came to an end. On Friday the...
Life in the Frontier Conference is never easy. After all, it's one of the most challenging leagues in all of NAIA men's basketball. But for nearly two full seasons, the Montana State University-Northern Lights sure made it seem like winning championships was easy. But after back-to-back regular season and postseason championships in 2010-11 and 2011-12, things were anything but easy for the Lights the last five months. After winning back-to-back Frontier Conference championshi...
HELENA – Montana-based data security experts have teamed up with a legislator to make sure individuals' private information does not fall into the wrong hands. Eric Fulton knows the risks that come with collecting data. He hacks into government agencies' and corporations' networks to find weaknesses in their systems and improve security. Information that's stolen or sold to a third party can have detrimental effects on people's lives, often without their realization, he said. Take, for example, the discount cards consumers sw...
The Havre High boys basketball team has had their share of streaky play this season. But after a great second half in their one weekend matchup, hopefully things will start to remain a little more consistent. Friday the Central A Blue Ponies were in Conrad, facing the Class B Conrad Cowboys in non conference basketball action. The Ponies defeated the Cowboys 57-39. The first half didn't impress anybody, as both teams struggled to do anything to gain an edge. Conrad held a 6-4 lead through the first eight minutes. And things...
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team has been road warriors of late. And the Skylights did their best to keep that going this past weekend. Northern won its fourth straight game of the season, and third straight on the road by beating Montana Tech 56-47 Friday night in Butte. However, the winning streak came to an end Saturday night in Helena as the Skylights fell to the nationally-ranked Carroll College Fighting Saints, 56-44. Tresch Still, a weekend...
In the tightly-packed Frontier Conference men's basketball race, one road win is huge. But when you can sweep on the road, it's almost like winning three games instead of two. And that's exactly what the No. 18 Montana State University-Northern Lights did this weekend. The Lights beat Montana Tech 59-48 Friday night in Butte, than got past a very tough Carroll College squad, 68-61 Saturday night in Helena. Pearson Northern's first road sweep of the season put them alone in...
The Havre High girls basketball team has some unfinished business over the course of the final two games of the regular season. And the Blue Ponies checked one team of their to-do list in what was their final home game of the year. Friday night at the Havre High gymnasium, the Blue Ponies sent senior Neya Bischoff out in style, by dominating the Conrad Cowgirls 49-25. Havre lost to the Class B Cowgirls on the road last month, but the Blue Ponies made sure Friday night was a...
An overhead shot of the Rimrock Auto Arena just before the All-Class Finals Saturday night in Billings. Blue Pony Thomas Gruber, top, holds down a Belgrade grappler during the 130-pound Class A Fifth-pLace match Saturday in Billings. Havre's Jason Kohler, left, picks up a Columbia Falls' opponent during the conoslation bracket of the 160-pound tournament Friday in Billings. Big Sandy's Lane Martin, left, fights for position during the Class B-C 171-pound quarterfinals Friday at the Metra. Chester/J-I's Shalon Norick, right,...
BILLINGS — The Hi-Line is littered with some of the state's top wrestlers, and after another state wrestling tournament was completed over the weekend, a handful of local wrestlers made that statement true yet again. Friday and Saturday in Billings, Harlem, Chinook, Big Sandy and Chester/J-I competed at the Class B-C state wrestling tournament at the Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark. The Class B Harlem Wildcats finished in ninth place overall with 84 points. The Chinook Sugarbeeters earned a No. 2 Class C finish with 49.5 p...
BILLINGS — Year-in-and-year-out, the Havre High wrestling team reloads with top tier talent. Not only have the Blue Ponies been team title contenders for the past decade, they also seem to have an unlimited number of individual title contenders. And the Central A Blue Ponies were up to their old tricks again over the weekend. Havre senior Grant Pattison, top, holds down Hardin's Steven Keetan during their 189-pound Class A championship bout Saturday night at Rimrock Auto Arena in Billings. Pattison won the match 3-0. F...
The Havre High boys and girls swim teams knew what they were up against heading into the 2013 state swim meet. After all, Billings Central is a dominant presence in Montana high school swimming, and the Rams were the defending Class A boys and girls champions. But little did the Blue Ponies know they would be up a against a Billings Central team swimming into uncharted territory, on the boys side anyway. Havre High's Desmond Fialkosky races in the boys 200 Medley Relay during...
BILLINGS — With the overflow of success a program like the Havre High wrestling team has found over the last decade, it is tough to reach new milestones. But the Blue Ponies retook the podium fury, and though Havre has seen it before, the Blue Ponies put on one of the best runs at a state wrestling tournament the stories program has ever seen. Friday and Saturday the Ponies were at the Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark in Billings for the Class A state wrestling tournament. Havre finished as state champions with 233.5 p...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown What a difference a day makes. To the left, a student crosses the Montana State University-Northern quad Wednesday afternoon, when temperatures reached 50 degrees. To the right, the same location this morning. A foot or more of snow is expected in the next day or two, with temperatures hovering around zero. A winter storm came to north-central Montana a little earlier than expected and started dropping some winter magic — good or bad — to the area, with the latest forecast upgrading pre...
HELENA — Wildlife officials are asking lawmakers to make it easier to hunt and trap wolves in Montana. The House Fish, Wildlife and Parks Committee is scheduled to hear two proposals Thursday. The first by the FWP agency would allow hunters and trappers to buy multiple tags and use electronic calls. It also would reduce the price of a non-resident tag from $350 to $50 and eliminate the requirement that hunters wear fluorescent orange outside of deer season. The second bill by Republican Rep. Ted Washburn of Bozeman would g...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is announcing Treasury secretary nominee Jack Lew, pointing to his past work of balancing budgets during the Clinton administration. The president says he feels "bittersweet" about losing Lew as his White House chief of staff but says "my loss will be the nation's gain." He notes that Lew was budget director during the Clinton administration, when the budget ran a surplus for three years. Lew is taking over Treasury as the administration prepares for a new fight with congressional R...
TAFT, Calif. (AP) — A student was shot and wounded at a rural California high school Thursday and a student suspect was taken into custody, officials said. The shooting occurred about 9 a.m. at Taft Union High School in Taft, a community of fewer than 10,000 people amid oil and natural gas production fields about 120 miles northwest of Los Angeles. AP Photo/Taft Midway Driller, Doug Keeler Paramedics transport a student wounded during a shooting Thursda at San Joaquin Valley high school in Taft, Calif. Authorities said a s...
