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Fish, Wildlife and Parks has been getting some unwanted attention lately for its purchase of land for hunting, fishing, picnicking and hiking. Its purchase of some land near the Canadian border started a massive rhubarb that affected the debate on FWP budget in Helena this year. Several bills were introduced to place limits on FWP's ability to buy land. For the most part, these bills fell by the wayside. For whatever the value of the north county land in question, in general, public ownership of land is valuable for all Monta...
TORONTO (AP) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. The mayor of Canada's largest city did not say whether he has ever used crack. Ford did not take questions from reporters at a news conference at City Hall held after a week of silence and after close allies released a letter urging him to address the video. The video apparently shows Ford smoking crack. AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young Toronto Mayor Rob F...
HELENA — A panel of appellate judges has upheld as constitutional the 2011 federal raids on Montana medical marijuana businesses, warehouses and homes that pot providers claimed violated their right to operate under state law. The three-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on May 15 affirmed U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy's dismissal of the lawsuit brought by 14 medical marijuana providers and associations. The appellate judges agreed with Molloy that the federal government did not overstep its authority when i... Full story
BOZEMAN (AP) — A man suspected of breaking into a house, stealing three vehicles in the Belgrade area, and leading law enforcement officers on a daylong chase through southwestern Montana finally surrendered in the mountains west of Pony, Madison County officials said. About 25 deputies and state troopers were about to call off the search in the Tobacco Root Mountains when the man walked out of the woods Thursday evening with his arms in the air, said Madison County Deputy Steve DiGiovanna. Officers arrested him. "To have t... Full story
BILLINGS (AP) — A federal judge will decide if almost 80,000 acres of oil and gas leases in Montana should be canceled after environmentalists sued over climate change worries. U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon took the case under advisement Friday after attorneys for the government and industry moved to have it dismissed. Plaintiffs led by the Montana Environmental Information Center say the Bureau of Land Management should have forced companies to address greenhouse gas emissions as a condition of sale for 120 leases at s...
HELENA — The governor lauded the Montana Board of Regents for its move Friday to freeze college tuition for the next two years. The regents unanimously voted in Great Falls on a plan to freeze college tuition for Montana residents at college campuses around the state. Gov. Steve Bullock said he worked with the university leaders early in the budget process to negotiate the tuition freeze. The Board of Regents has constitutional autonomy over the college system budget even though the Montana Legislature appropriates a large s... Full story
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — After lengthy and wrenching debate, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to open their ranks to openly gay boys for the first time, but heated reactions from the left and right made clear that the BSA's controversies are far from over. AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez Boy Scouts of America National Commissioner Tico Perez, front, addresses reporters questions as BSA National President Wayne Perry, left, rear, watches Thursday in Grapevine, Texas. Local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America v...
The members of Montana's congressional delegation have been busy this week before going into a week-long recess for the Memorial Day holiday. Freshman U.S. Rep. Steve Daines, R-Mont., reported that in a hearing Thursday, his bill opening up hydropower electricity generation on federal irrigation projects received bipartisan support, including in testimony by representatives of President Barack Obama's administration. "In Montana, we say 'whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting.' That's how important water is to our sta...
Local veterans will hold at a Memorial Day program Monday at 11 a.m at the Hill County Courthouse. The lineup includes a flag-raising ceremony to be performed by local Boy Scouts of America. Weather permitting, flags will be marched down the sidewalks outside the courthouse, and the national anthem will be played. A reading of the names of deceased veterans and of deceased members of the auxiliaries will follow this portion of the ceremony. There will then be a wreath-laying ceremony performed by members of the Veterans of Fo...
Montana's commissioner of securities and insurance said that, overall, she was pleased with legislation passed during the 2013 legislative session, including some issues she has been pushing for for several years. State Auditor Monica Lindeen, head of the state office that regulates insurance and securities, said one of the bills that passed this year could help people understand what her office does. The Legislature approved sending a constitutional referendum to the ballot in 2014 to change the name of the position from aud...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Karen Murri poses for a portrait in her classroom at Havre High School Tuesday afternoon. Murri is retiring after 39 years of teaching. Karen Murri went to Havre High School, went to college and came home to teach at her alma mater for 39 years. She's taught business, accounting and computer classes in the same school and same place — Room 45 — all these years. She's become the institutional memory, as well as the favorite teacher of hundreds over the years. But her stretch at Havre High is com...
Editor: For many years, Montana has developed our natural resources — we can think of timber in Western Montana, copper in Butte, coal throughout many parts of the state and again a resurgence of oil and gas in Eastern Montana. At their economic peaks, each energy industry has created a quick demand for additional services and infrastructure. Communities like Sidney, Glendive, Bainville and Culbertson have and continue to feel the strain of a quickly growing oil and gas industry. Recently, House Bill 218, a bill meant to s...
Editor: This past week, myself and 200 other community members attended Family Night at the Boys & Girls Club of the Hi-Line. The staff did a great job of providing fun activities for families to participate in, and you could not have asked for better weather. But what really impressed me was the cooking crew. NorthWestern Energy donated all of the food that night, plus they hauled in a commercial barbecuer to cook all of the burgers. They also provided volunteers to cook and serve the meal. George Flammond, a NorthWestern...
Everything is relative. That's what I always say. Sure it's no Albert Einstein's theory of relativity that my "Dictionary of Theories" explains as: "In non-inertial (accelerated) systems, certain fictitious forces make their appearance while also having a connection with the forces due to gravity, where the acceleration produced is independent of the mass." (I swear I didn't make that up.) Pam Burke But, really who all is smart enough to imagine something like that. I'm no...
Laurel — Memorial Day services will be held in downtown Havre and elsewhere on the Hi-Line Monday. The Havre service, 11 a.m. at Hill County Courthouse, will be a simple, but moving, ceremony in which all veterans groups will take part. It is well worth attending. Spending a few minutes going to the event will be a great way for people to pay tribute to those who have died for our country. Laurel — The people who put on the ceremony do a lot of work behind the scenes. Their work pays off for those who attend the service. Whe...
The IRS tempest in a teapot should not be about how the IRS investigates political organizations that file for 501(c)4 tax-exempt status. Rather, it should be about why we have thousands, or, for that matter, any, tax-exempt political non-profits in the first place. This tax-exempt status, especially the 501(c)4 organizations, rather than the usual 501(c)3 nonprofits, is rightly subjected to more than the usual IRS scrutiny because these are the organizations most likely to misuse their status. They are not required to make... Full story
Editor: I want to offer another perspective to the May 12 article (online at http://www.havredailynews.com) titled "AP Exclusive: Mont. goes its own way on marijuana." The story details a crackdown on businesses in plain sight and says the resulting prosecutions were "widely seen as a success and possibly a model for others." The author forgot to account for some things in his "final scorecard" of 33 convictions. Most importantly, a death toll is omitted. Richard Flor was a registered caregiver in Montana and the first...
TUPELO, Miss. — Law enforcement officials searched the home of a second Mississippi man in connection to ricin-laced letters sent to the president and a U.S. senator after charges were dropped without explanation against a man arrested in the case last week. AP Photo/Oxford Eagle, Bruce Newman Paul Kevin Curtis, who had been in custody under suspicion of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others, wipes a tear from his eyes during a news conference following his release Tuesday in Oxford, Miss. The charg...
The recruiting season continues, and Montana State University-Northern women's basketball coach Chris Mouat has announced his fourth signing of the spring. Mouat recently announced that Taybra Teeters, a 5-11 forward from Lower Columbia College in Longview, Wash., has signed an NAIA national letter of intent to join the Skylights. This season, Teeters earned Second-Team All-West Region honors in the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC). She averaged...
Tuesday brought another opportunity to compete to the Havre High track and field program. And the Central A Ponies have shown consistent growth and improvement all season long. And after another solid outing at the Malta Athletic Club Invitational in Malta, the trend looks to have continued. In the boys field, the Ponies took third place with 67 points. HHS finished behind No. 1 Malta with 112 and No. 2 Chinook with 76. And in girls action, the Ponies finished in fourth place, scoring 79 team points. Havre finished behind... Full story
The weather continues to haunt the Havre High tennis teams. But the Blue Ponies keep finding ways to get their scheduled matches in. Havre faced a cold, dark and windy day in Great Falls Tuesday, yet the courts were dry And the Ponies were able to dual the Butte Havre High junior Ned Malone and the Blue Pony tennis teams found plenty of success Tuesday in Great Falls. Central Maroons, CMR Rustlers and Great Falls High Bison. And while Havre won four of its six duals Saturday, HHS head coach George Ferguson was more proud of... Full story
Louis Michael Healy was convicted in federal court of charges he attacked, threatened and sexually assaulted a woman Oct. 13 at his home near Hays. The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Montana announced Tuesday that Healy, 40, was found guilty after a trial in U.S. District Court in Great Falls of assault resulting in serious injury, aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact. Sentencing is set for July 26, with Healy facing up to life in prison. According to the U.S. Attorney release, Healy was charged...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Volunteers pack baskets full of fruit and vegetables for a Bountiful Baskets site at Highland Early Primary School. To honor volunteerism in north-central Montana during National Volunteer Week, every day this week Havre Daily News will be looking at some volunteers and volunteer-run organizations which help sustain our communities and enrich our lives. An old cliché has neighbors meeting neighbors when one asks to borrow a cup of sugar from... Full story
Havre Pride Day cleanup on Saturday was a great success. The Havre Pride Committee of the Havre Area Chamber of Commerce led the way for the spring clean-up campaign in partnership with Recycle Hi-Line and recycling partners Walmart and Pacific Steel & Recycling. The turnout to help clean up Havre and recycle was awesome. Thank you to each and every one of you that gave time to pick up many areas around town. I want to give a shout out to the schools, which did their cleanup Friday afternoon even though Mother Nature decided...
The left wing of the political spectrum joined forces with the right wing on Tuesday, screaming in delight that Sen. Max Baucus would not run for a seventh term in the U.S. Senate. Tea party groups pointed to Baucus' support for Obamacare, while the left wing blogs were steamed that Baucus let people down with his vote against mandatory background checks to purchase weapons. Baucus always said he had the best one million bosses in the world — the people of Montana. We suspect that today the million bosses will be more kind t...
