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  • Perfect ending: Havre girls win 2018 Class A state championship

    Chris Peterson|Updated Mar 10, 2018

    GREAT FALLS -- The Class A state championship game between the Havre Blue Ponies and Hardin Bulldogs was a defensive slugfest. But in the end, the Pony girls just landed a few more punches. In an intense battle that went down to the wire, Havre defeated Hardin 42-35 Saturday night at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls to win the 2018 Class A girls state championship. It also put the finishing touches on a perfect 24-0 season, the first ever undefeated season in the history...

  • Bears win first title in 20 years

    George Ferguson|Updated Mar 10, 2018

    BUTTE - The Box Elder girls didn't win the District 9C championship in 2018. They didn't win the Northern C title either. But, on Saturday night inside the Butte Civic Center, none of that mattered. That's because the Bears beat Winnett-Grass Range 52-34 in the Class C state championship game. For Box Elder, their first state title in girls basketball in 20 years - that's the only trophy that mattered. "We deserved this, we've worked so hard," junior Lilly Gopher said. "I'm so...

  • Friday's State Tournament Basketball: Havre, Box Elder to play for titles

    Updated Mar 9, 2018

    GIRLS State AA Tournament At Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark, Billings March 8-10 Thursday Helena Capital 40, Billings Senior 36 Missoula Sentinel 55, Bozeman 37 Helena 59, Great Falls CMR 38 Kalispell Glacier 50, Billings West 40 Friday Bozeman 63, Billings Senior 53 Billings West 59, Great Falls CMR 41 Missoula Sentinel 33, Helena Capital 29, semifinal Helena 63, Kalispell Glacier 52, semifinal Saturday Game 9: Billings West vs. Helena Capital, 9 a.m., loser out (at Billings...

  • Blue Ponies cruise into Class A state championship game

    Chris Peterson|Updated Mar 9, 2018

    The Havre Blue Ponies and Browning Indians have played some important girls basketball games over the years, but Friday night’s Class A semifinal in the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls, was probably the biggest in 20 years. But while the game was huge, only one team looked ready for the moment and it was the Ponies, who crushed Browning 53-29, on their way to a berth in Saturday night’s Class A state championship game. “It feels great,” HHS head coach Dustin Krasker said. ...

  • Boil order lifted on Rocky Boy

    Alex Ross|Updated Mar 9, 2018

    A boil order put in place by the Chippewa Cree Tribe on Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation has been lifted, a post made Friday on the Tribe's official Facebook page says, The order was lifted, the post says, after tests conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency concluded that tap water from the reservation's water system, is safe to use, and no longer needed to be boiled to kill bacteria. The order was put in place in February when the reservation was plagued by water shortages caused by low water pressure and a loss... Full story

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  • Dan Nelsen runs for House District 27

    Alex Ross|Updated Mar 9, 2018

    Dan Nelsen, a retired school administrator from Fort Benton, filed Thursday with the Montana Secretary of State’s office to run for the Montana House of Representatives in House District 27. House District 27 stretches from the Canadian border down to Great Falls, and includes the communities of Kremlin, Gildford, Rudyard, Hingham, Joplin, Inverness, Big Sandy and Fort Benton. Republicans Darrold Hutchinson, a farmer from north of Hingham, and Joshua Kassmier, a crop adjustor and former Fort Benton mayoral candidate, will fac...