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  • Northern sweeps Montana Tech in the Armory

    George Ferguson|Updated Jan 13, 2019

    Tiara Gilham has missed much of her second season in a Montana State University-Northern Skylight uniform with a leg injury. But, healthy again, she announced her return to the Northern lineup with a vengeance. Saturday night, Gilham scored 14 second-half points, and hit a game-clinching 3-pointer with :33 left in overtime, lifting the Skylights to a 59-55 win over Montana Tech - their first Frontier Conference win this season. "Coach said we needed a three," Gilham said of...

  • Saturday's Prep Basketball Scores

    Updated Jan 12, 2019

    Prep Basketball Boys Great Falls High 56, Butte 43 Missoula Hellgate 59, Helena High 37 Laurel 44, Glendive 31 Billings Central 71, Sidney 37 Hamilton 69, Dillon 67 Bozeman 75, Billings Skyview 60 Billings Christian 80, Great Falls Home School 19 Butte Central 58, Corvallis 32 Melstone 98, Northern Cheyenne 27 Heart Butte 68, Augusta 50 Malta 54, Shelby 38 Powers Lake ND 52, Culbertson 43 Rocky Boy 59, Choteau 54 Polson 60, Libby 52 Bainville 42, Savage 39 Missoula Loyola 44,...

  • Friday's Prep Basketball Scores

    Updated Jan 11, 2019

    Prep Basketball Boys Great Falls Central 83, Simms 48 Scobey 55, Wolf Point 37 Deer Lodge 52, Jefferson 38 Melstone 79, Terry 9 Gardiner 79, Manhattan Christian 49 Shelby 62, Harlem 48 Ennis 75, Drummond 64 Malta 43, Glasgow 40 Big Sandy 57, Turner 51 Polson 66, Stevensville 45 Browning 80, Havre 54 Billings West 58, Sheridan WY 41 Corvallis 53, Florence-Carlton 38 St. Regis 76, Lincoln 55 Missoula Loyola 64, Anaconda 31 Frenchtown 72, Ronan 54 Cascade 57, Augusta 45 Dodson...

  • Lengthy police pursuit ends with one crash, one arrest

    Ryan Berry|Updated Jan 11, 2019

    One man is in custody after a car chase some 17 miles south of Havre, came to town and toured much of the Havre area and ended on a gravel road by Beaver Creek Reservoir Friday evening. At around 3:30 p.m. Montana Highway Patrol trooper Christopher Baker stopped a blue Ford pickup truck for an expired registration near Northern Winz Casino on U.S. Highway 87. After he discovered the male driver of the pickup had two warrants for his arrest, Baker said the driver took off,...

  • Havre bulk water station closed Monday

    Updated Jan 11, 2019

    The Havre Public Works Department announced that the city bulk water fill station will be closed Monday for maintenance from about 9 a.m. to noon. For more information, people can call 265-4941....

  • County Commissioners approve resolutions for funding

    Stephen Real|Updated Jan 11, 2019

    The Hill County Commissioners met Thursday morning to go over a couple of resolutions to provide more funding for the Hill County sheriff/coroner and for Hill County Health Department. The board voted unanimously to pass Resolution 19-2574 regarding further funding from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through the Operation Stonegarden Grant program. The program started on Oct. 20, 2016, and was set to expire Aug. 31. The grant gives $68,130 to the sheriff’s office and the funds will help with workers’ salaries, ret...

  • Wagner comes home to Northern

    Updated Jan 11, 2019

    Last Thursday, Jerry Wagner stood before members of the Havre community, emotionally speaking about what it would mean to him to come back home and coach the Montana State University-Northern volleyball program. Seven days later, it became official. Thursday afternoon, inside the Armory Gymnasium, Wagner was introduced by Northern Chancellor Greg Kegel and Athletic Director Christian Oberquell as the new head coach of the Skylights. Wagner replaces Rose Obunaga, who was the...

  • Northern to host guest speaker to present different perspective for MLK day

    Stephen Real|Updated Jan 11, 2019

    Montana State University-Northern will host guest speaker Ken Robinson at Cowan Hall Tuesday to talk about the civil rights movement in Montana. Northern Multicultural Center Director Cristina Estrada-Underwood said while the talk will be inspired by the upcoming Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, it will not just be strictly about his life. She added that the talk will focus primarily on what was happening in Montana during the Civil Rights movement. “It’s always MLK which is OK, but I feel like this can be learned from dif...

  • Obituary - Carmelita "Connie" Marie Lang

    Updated Jan 11, 2019

    Carmelita “Connie” Marie Lang of Great Falls, 75, a devoted Catholic, went to be with the Lord on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. She was born on Dec. 28, 1944, in Fort Belknap, the daughter of Tommy Jo Mount and Cecelia Martin-The Boy. Connie lived in Havre and then moved to Seattle, where she spent a good part of her life and made many dear friends. But, as we all know, home calls and she moved to Great Falls to be closer to family. Connie loved to laugh, and her laugh was ver... Full story

  • Agenda - H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum

    Updated Jan 11, 2019

    The next regular meeting of the H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board will be Monday 6 p.m. in the Board Room of Havre Inn and Suites. The meeting agenda is: 1. Call to order 2. Roll call of members 3. Reading and approval of minutes 4. Museum report — Emily Mayer 5. Wahkpa Chu’gn report — Emily Mayer 6. The Foundation report — Elaine Morse 7. Committee reports • Budget and Finance — Val • Displays — “The Great War” exhibit • By-laws — Committee to work on by-laws — report from Judy and Lela 8. Unfinished Business • Sum...

  • Agenda - Hill County Commission

    Updated Jan 11, 2019

    Monday 10 a.m. — Meeting for maintenance vehicle Tuesday 10:30 a.m. — Weekly road meeting 2 p.m. — Brownsfields Steering Committee conference call 5:30 p.m. — Fair Board meeting in the Timmons Room Wednesday 10 a.m. — Board of Health Meeting at Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line Noon — Chamber 110th Annual Meeting at Duck Inn Olympic Room 3 p.m. — Funding ideas for Beaver Creek Park — Conference call Thursday 10 a.m. — County officials meeting 11 a.m. — Weekly business meeting Time for public comments Manual Claims Emplo...

  • For the Record, Jan. 11, 2019

    Updated Jan 11, 2019

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated a 911 call hang-up from First Street at 8:06 a.m. Thursday. -- A Fifth Street caller reported Thursday at 8:09 a.m. someone entering a garage and going through the vehicle. -- A vehicle crash was reported on U.S. Highway 2 West Thursday at 11:35 a.m. -- A hit-and-run vehicle crash was reported on 13th Street Thursday at 2:02 p.m. -- A caller at a First Street business reported at 12:44 a.m. today that a coat and set of keys were...