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HELENA — The Montana Legislature is wrapping up the 2013 session with leaders praising a relatively smooth budget deal, along with fixes to the pension system and other pressing issues. The House endorsed a measure Wednesday morning that reconciled small budget differences with Gov. Steve Bullock, and then voted to adjourn. The Senate was finalizing a few other measures and also preparing to approve the budget compromise that adds about $13 million to their $10 billion two-year spending plan. Both sides praised the smooth f...
HELENA — The Montana Senate has wrapped up the final day of the 2013 session after more in-fighting and maneuvering over a bipartisan budget deal. The Senate approved the deal and adjourned Wednesday — but only after stalling for several hours over whether to accept the compromise bill passed earlier by House Republicans. The Senate's conservative faction ultimately backed off its attempt to block the last-minute deal. The conservative Senate leaders have been on the losing end of several major votes this session. Dem...
HELENA — State health officials say there have been an unusually high number of outbreaks of gastroenteritis in Montana this year. The Department of Public Health & Human Services says 20 outbreaks have sickened nearly 500 people throughout the state, most in assisted living and nursing homes. The 20 outbreaks is more than twice the number usually reported by late April. Symptoms of gastroenteritis — commonly referred to as the stomach flu — include diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain. Most individuals recover in on...
Enos R. Johnson Sr., 65, of Rocky Boy, passed away on Friday, March 22, 2013, at Benefis Medical Center in Great Falls. of natural causes. Wake services began at 5 p.m. on Saturday, March 23, 2013, at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church and will continue until his funeral service at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 25, 2013. Burial will be in the Johnson Family Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with services and arrangements. Enos was born on Aug. 24, 1947, in Rocky Boy to John and Marion (Small)...
HELENA — Jared Yates spent 11 hours in the Capitol's windowless basement last Thursday, printing hundreds of copies of bills and amendments hours after the legislator parking lots cleared. "It's down and dirty, copies in and copies out," he said while squaring up a stack of papers hot off the press. "If it comes in here in the evening, it has to be ready for the next morning. That's just the way it is." Community News Service/Amy Sisk Kathy Baird, left, and Sandy Bradford work on the House rostrum keeping track of bills. His...
The season has been over for a couple of weeks now, but the honors keep coming in after a great season by the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team. Montana State University-Northern senior Devin Jackson has been named an NAIA All-American for the 2012-13 season. Last Friday, the NAIA announced its NAIA All-Americans for the 2012-13 season, and MSU-N senior Devin Jackson made the list. Jackson, who finished his career eighth on the Lights' all-time scoring list was named NAIA Honorable Mention All-American....
Saturday was a winter-like day across the Hi-Line and around most of Montana with temperatures never reaching 30 degrees. But that didn't stop the Havre High boys and girls tennis teams from make their season debut. The Blue Ponies traveled to Cut Bank and got in several matches in Cut Bank's two indoor tennis courts. Cut Bank was scheduled to host the Cut Bank Invite, but the cold forced the event moved indoors. Overall, Havre was able to dual a few players from Conrad and got in a full dual against Cut Bank. Lewistown...
In recent years, the Class C girls have dominated the annual Hi-Line Invitational Tournament (HIT), but finally, after a three year run, somebody else was finally able to grab the HIT title. Chinook's Makhayla Farmer, middle, passes around Havre's Neya Bischoff during an Hi-Line Invitational girls game Saturday at the Armory Gymnasium. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the Armory Gymnasium in Havre, some of the best high school girls basketball players in the state came together for the 27th annual HIT tournament. And after...
Some of the best prep basketball talent in the state of Montana was in Havre over the weekend, but only one team was able to come away crowned as tournament champions. Chinook's Grant Tilleman, left, makes a move during a Hi-Line Invitational Tournament boys game Saturday at the Armory Gymnasium. The Class AA boys beat the Class B boys for the title. The 27th annual Hi-Line Invitational (HIT) basketball tournament took over the Armory gymnasium Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Havre. And after winning six team titles out of...
When it came to girls high school basketball on the Hi-Line, the last three months was certainly exciting. And due to so many great individual players from Havre to Chester, to Harlem to Big Sandy and many points in between, area girls basketball thrived in 2012-13. Havre's Peyton Filius And just like great teams like Havre High, Rocky Boy, Chinook, Chester/J-I, North Star and many others performed well all season long, so too did many players from around our coverage area....
GREAT FALLS — Over the weekend, the Havre High girls basketball team gave fans, and myself something great to be a part of. The Blue Ponies won their second consecutive Central A basketball title on Saturday night, as they dismantled the Browning Indians in Great Falls. Playing in the CMR Fieldhouse, the Ponies won 69-42, following the regular season title they also clinched for the second straight season last weekend when they beat the Indians in Browning. Havre head coach Dustin Kraske gives instructions to junior Brandy La...
GREAT FALLS — When a team doesn't show up and play its best in the postseason, it is tough to win, and it shows. A young Havre High boys basketball team had the hopes of sneaking a couple of wins and earning a top spot in the Central A Divisional Tournament, but came up short over the weekend. The Central A Blue Ponies went 0-2 in Great Falls and ended the season with an overall record of 5-15. Havre's Nate Rismon, right, tries to scoop a shot during Saturday morning's Central A boys loser-out game at the CMR Fieldhouse in G...
The 2013 Frontier Conference regular season came to a close on Saturday night. And in a matter of just 24 hours from now, the men's and women's playoffs will get under way. With the addition of Dickinson State, making the Frontier a nine-team basketball league, the conference decided to go to a six-team playoff this season, meaning the top two men's and women's teams will have byes and host semifinal games. The Frontier released the pairings on Saturday night. MSU-Northern's...
The Montana State University-Northern men's basketball teams haven't had many losing streaks in recent years. But the Lights are on a mini-streak now. The No. 13 Lights came into the final weekend of the Frontier Conference's regular season with a chance to catch Lewis-Clark State for the Frontier's regular season title. But instead, the Lights lost to Rocky Mountain College Thursday night I Billings, and followed it up with a difficult 64-49 loss to Dickinson State Saturday...
Hosting a game in the first round of the Frontier Conference playoffs is a huge asset. It's something the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team has done often during head coach Chris Mouat's tenure. But in order to make sure they would host a first-round game on Tuesday night, the Skylights had to win one more battle on the road. And the Skylights did exactly that as they beat Dickinson State 66-59 in the Frontier's final regular season game Saturday night...
GREAT FALLS — If either the Box Elder Bears or the Big Sandy Pioneers' season was going to come to an end at the Northern C Divisional boys basketball tournament, it was only right that it ended at the hands of the other. And that's exactly how things unfolded Saturday afternoon at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls. In the fourth meeting of the season between the two 9C rivals separated by just 11 miles, the Pioneers held the Bears scoreless for the final 3:40 of the N...
GREAT FALLS — Losing in the first round of a divisional basketball tournament as difficult as the Northern C girls tournament is annually usually spells doom. But that didn't turn out to be the case for the Chester/J-I Hawks, who came oh so close to earning a Class C state tournament berth. Chester/J-I's Denerey Haaland, left, drives against a Winnett-Grass Range defender during Saturday night's Northern C girls challenge game in Great Falls. The Hawks finished third at the N...
GREAT FALLS — Losing in the first round of the Northern C boys divisional tournament on Thursday morning was a bitter pill for the Big Sandy Pioneers to swallow. But fast forward four days and the Pioneers are just one game away from reaching the Class C state tournament for the third time in the last four years. Tonight in Great Falls, Big Sandy will take on Highwood in a Northern C challenge game, for a berth in next week's state tournament. And the Pioneers had to take t...
Ponies clobber Browning in Central A title game, head back to Class A state tournament GREAT FALLS — Throughout the regular season, the Havre High girls basketball team got the reputation of being a team that was susceptible to getting off to slow starts offensively. The delay in production made the Blue Ponies beatable to lesser completion at times. but not this weekend. Havre High's Brandy Lambourne, left, drives to the basket during the Blue Ponies' Central A championship game win over Browning Saturday night in Great F...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Cans of food donated from the Gary and Leo's Fresh Food's food drive sit stacked at the Havre Food Bank Wednesday. People receiving food from the Salvation Army and the Havre Food Bank will be in better shape because of a donation made by Gary & Leo's Fresh Foods. More than $2,500 worth of food was donated by the Hometown Food Drive. Much of the food was donated to the food bank, to be used for day-to-day needs. At the Salvation Army, director Trina Crawford said the donations will make it possi...
Havre Daily News/Lindsay Brown Dennis Murphy poses for a portrait in his office this morning. Havre High School Activities Director Dennis Murphy went to last weekend's Montana High School Association meeting as a representative of Havre Public Schools, and he came back the 2013 Class A Athletic Director of the Year. His colleagues in the Montana Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association voted to give Murphy the award, though he insists he didn't earn it alone. "Like with any honor you look at, it's the people...
BILLINGS (AP) — Anna Whiting Sorrell has been named director of the Billings Area Indian Health Service. She succeeds longtime director Pete Conway and assumed her new duties on Monday. Sen. Jon Tester's office announced Whiting Sorrell's appointment late Wednesday. For the past four years, Whiting Sorrell has served as director of the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. She is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe. The Billings Gazette (http://bit.ly/WQEXwf ) reports the Billings area o...
HELENA (AP) — State wildlife biologists plan to radio collar 50 cow elk in the Missouri River Breaks and track their movements for two years as part of an effort to find out where they go during hunting season. Officials with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks say that elk populations have been greater than objectives set by the Missouri River Breaks Elk Working Group, which is composed of hunters, landowners and FWP. Even with issuing a "liberal" number of cow elk licenses, their numbers have only slightly decreased in r...
CROW AGENCY — Leaders of the Crow Tribe agreed Thursday to give a Wyoming mining company rights to lease an estimated 1.4 billion tons of coal beneath the tribe's land in southeastern Montana. The deal with Cloud Peak Energy involves more coal than the U.S. consumes annually, and revives stalled efforts to expand mining on the impoverished, 2.2 million-acre reservation. AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File A shovel prepares to dump a load of coal into a 320-ton truck at the Black Thunder Mine in Wright, Wyo. It is aimed at tapping i...
HELENA — A Republican state senator launched a long-shot bid Thursday for a constitutional amendment that would require prior judicial experience for Montana Supreme Court justices. The proposal would require approval from 100 of 150 lawmakers before it could be sent to the voters, a tough hurdle to clear even if all 90 Republicans in the Legislature back it. But Fred Thomas, of Stevensville, said he thinks the measure has a "50-50" chance. As written, the measure would require candidates to have experience as a District C...
