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Havre Public Schools just added two new electric buses to its fleet, which the district's Transportation Department service attendant and trainer, Allen "Woody" Woodwick said will save the district a significant amount of money and improve their operations. Woodwick said the buses have a range of about 100 miles, only take an hour to charge and are easily handling two of their local routes even at -20 degrees, and at less than a quarter of the fuel costs they would have for th...
Staff and wire Editor’s note: This version corrects which group is asking for help through the WildlifeXing app. Montana Wildlife Federation is looking for assistance from people who regularly drive the Hi-Line from Havre to Shelby and Malta to Glasgow to help the department collect data of wildlife sightings. The federation is asking drivers who regularly drive U.S. Highway 2 between Shelby and Havre at least once a week and or between Malta and Glasgow at least every other week to track using the WildlifeXing app where t...
by Elinor Smith University of Montana Legislative News Service HELENA — The House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday that would provide $61,000 of the state’s money to pay for a grant program for training local, community-led search teams in missing persons cases. House Bill 18 passed the House with 98 of the 98 present Representatives voting for the bill. The bill now moves to the Senate. “Every Montanan has a fundamental right to life safety in these communities, to live in their lives without fear. But for too m...
by Elinor Smith University of Montana Legislative News Service HELENA— The House Judiciary committee heard testimony Wednesday on a bill that supporters say would address substantial problems with how Montana responds to sexual assault cases by expanding sexual assault nurse examiner, or SANE, training and services to rural communities. Rep. Amy Regier, R-Kalispell, is sponsoring House Bill 79. She says the bill will provide the Department of Justice the ability to address sexual assault at a statewide level to provide t...
by Amy Beth Hanson Associated Press HELENA — State officials in Republican-controlled Montana want to require prior authorization before its health department pays for abortions for people covered by Medicaid, a proposal critics say would reduce access and delay or even prevent abortion care for low-income women in the state. The Department of Public Health and Human Services is taking public comment today on the proposed rule to require doctors to provide more medical information before Medicaid would agree to pay for an a...
Zeke Miller and Michael Balsamo Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden acknowledged today that a document with classified markings from his time as vice president was found in his “personal library” at his home in Wilmington, Delaware, along with other documents found in his garage, days after it was disclosed that sensitive documents were also found at the office of his former institute in Washington. Biden told reporters at the White House that he was “cooperating fully and completely” with a Justice Departmen...
Press release When a child is abducted under life-threatening circumstances, seconds count. An AMBER Alert can be issued to alert the public to assist law enforcement in searching for and saving the child. This year, Montana is recognizing its 20th anniversary of Montana’s AMBER Alert program. Updating statistics through 2022, Montana has launched 54 AMBER Alerts and, fortunately, all 76 children have been located. The state wants to make sure Montana’s AMBER Alert system works well when it is needed, so Friday, Jan. 13, at...
by Mara Silvers Montana Free Press A bill that would bring a degree of regulation to Montana’s sober living homes and incentivize operators to seek accreditation from industry organizations produced conflicting testimony in a Tuesday hearing before the Legislature’s Senate Judiciary Committee. If it becomes law, the policy would mark a new effort in Montana to rein in a currently unregulated part of the addiction recovery industry. Unlike clinical treatment centers and medical providers, recovery homes are not subject to sta...
Havre Police Department A caller on Fifth Avenue asked Wednesday at 9:28 a.m. for assistance. -- Someone reported at the police station Wednesday at 9:53 a.m. that a work iPad was stolen. -- A written or verbal warning was issued after a Wednesday 10:13 a.m. caller at a Third Avenue business reported a man was yelling at workers and loitering. -- An abandoned bike was reported at a First Street business at 12:26 p.m. Wednesday. -- Officers assisted with a medical call at...
Havre Daily News staff Montana State University Extension-Hill County is offering a ServSave Food Manager Certification Class in the Hill County Courthouse Timmons Room on the bottom floor of the courthouse, across from the Extension Office. All restaurants in Montana are required to have at least one certified food safety manager on staff. The class is a great opportunity for people whose certificates are about to expire, the Extension Office said in a release. Classes are selected from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan....
North Central Senior Citizens Center in Havre January Activity Calendar Happy New Year. Daily — Pool in the back room, Mondays through Fridays, 1-3 p.m. The group is expanding and looking for players. Monday, Jan. 16 — North Central Senior Citizens Center closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Tuesday, Jan. 17, 11 a.m. to noon — Mark Weber from Blaine County Health Department will be at the North Central Senior Citizens Center to talk with seniors about an upcoming February workshop called Stepping On. It is a 50 minute, once...
Coming off a first-place finish at last weekend's Cut Bank Booster Invitational, the Havre High wrestling teams will look to carry that performance into this weekend at the Jug Beck Rocky Mountain Classic in Missoula. Along with other schools from Montana, the Blue Ponies will compete against schools from Washington, Wyoming and Idaho, so HHS head coach Beau LaSalle looks forward to seeing how his wrestlers can do against them. "(We just want to) go out and compete hard and...
After both teams suffered a pair of losses to open 2023, both the Montana State University-Northern men's and women's basketball teams are back at it with a pair of road games this weekend. Both the Lights and Skylights head to Butte tonight to face Montana Tech before heading to Helena Saturday to play Carroll College. The Skylights will get the action started tonight with their game against the Orediggers in Butte. The Montana Tech women's basketball team enters the game...
On the road in North Dakota Wednesday night, the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team took care of business with a 28-9 victory in its dual against Dickinson State University. While the Lights picked up another win, MSU-N head coach Tyson Thivierge believes they could have wrestled even better. “Sometimes you got to win the ugly ones. It wasn’t pretty by any means. We still got a lot of work to get back where we were before the break,” Thivierge said. “We had som...
