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  • 2018 Frontier Conference Women's Basketball Preview

    George Ferguson|Updated Dec 27, 2017

    When summing up Frontier Conference women's basketball, it's pretty easy - the league is loaded. Period. For years now, the Frontier has been as good as it gets in NAIA women's basketball, and just last March, three Frontier squads went as far as the NAIA Sweet 16, while one, Lewis-Clark State, went all the way to The Final Four. And while the Warriors are loaded for another run this season, once again, the Frontier will be a dogfight. As league play starts for good, four...

  • Blaine County Fair starts on Independence Day

    Updated Dec 27, 2017

    Press release The Blaine County Fair Board has announced the 2018 Blaine County Fair dates. The fair will kick off on the Fourth of July at the fairgrounds in Chinook, with the Kids Rodeo scheduled for that evening, which is also slated to be the opening day for the carnival. Dreamland Carnival is set to operate the carnival with more rides and activities planned than in 2017. The carnival will open Wednesday evening and conclude Sunday afternoon. "Becoming a bigger and...

  • Licenses for CWD hunt sell out

    Updated Dec 27, 2017

    Staff and wire Licenses for a second special hunt in Montana, this one north of Chester, went on sale Tuesday, but not for long Nearly 400 licenses for the special chronic wasting disease deer hunt sold out in less than four hours. The 60 either-sex licenses offered for the hunt sold out in less than five minutes, and 335 deer B licenses sold out in 3 hours and 40 minutes. The hunt begins Jan. 6 and will end Feb. 15 or when hunters have killed 135 mule deer. The Sage Creek Special CWD Hunt area is about 226 square miles in...

  • Obituary - Paul M. Mitchell

    Updated Dec 27, 2017

    Paul M. Mitchell of Havre, 53, passed away due to natural causes Monday, Dec. 25, 2017, in Rocky Boy. Wake services began at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2017, and continued until his funeral service, which was at 10 a.m today, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017, all at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Rocky Boy. Burial followed in the Rocky Boy Cemetery. Holland & Bonine Funeral Home has been entrusted with arrangements. Please visit Paul's online memorial page and leave a message of...

  • Correction - Shop with a Cop

    Updated Dec 27, 2017

    In a front-page story in Tuesday’s edition of the Havre Daily News about the Havre Shop with a Cop program, the last name of Tamara Barkus was misspelled....

  • Agenda - Hill County Public Cemetery District

    Updated Dec 27, 2017

    Hill County Cemetery District will meet at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Dec. 29, at the cemetery office. • Call to order • Public comment • Approval of minutes from previous meeting • Old business • New business • Claims...

  • For the Record, Dec. 27, 2017

    Updated Dec 27, 2017

    Havre Police Department Officers investigated after a Second Street caller reported Tuesday at 1:29 p.m. that a vehicle had been stolen. —— Officers served a warrant and arrested someone Tuesday at 2:59 p.m. at the Havre Police Department. No further information was available. —— Officers arrested Adrian Joe Cochran of Harlem, 42, on a Justice or City court warrant after a Second Street caller reported a disturbance Tuesday at 5:45 p.m. —— Animal Control officers investigated after someone from the Northern Montana Hos...

  • Agenda - Hill County Commision

    Updated Dec 27, 2017

    The Hill County Commission added “Health Officer Appointment” to the agenda for Thursday at 10 a.m....

  • MSU College of Agriculture hosts first 'College of Ag Connects' forum Jan. 15

    Updated Dec 27, 2017

    MSU News Service BOZEMAN — The Montana State University College of Agriculture and Montana Agricultural Experiment Station invite members of the agricultural community and the public to attend its first collegewide public forum, “College of Ag Connects” Monday, Jan. 15, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The forum is slated to engage with the Montana agricultural community on current and local issues by highlighting relevant, ongoing college programs and projects in agricultural teaching, research and Extension. Faculty from each of th...

  • What drought and fire do to your dirt

    Updated Dec 27, 2017

    by Meryl Rygg McKenna with Certified Crop Advisers Farmers and ranchers sometimes call themselves "next-year" people, always hoping for better results next season. For many, the severe conditions of 2017 beg a better sequel. A December 2017 drought monitor map showed much of Montana in moderate to severe drought, although Montana's northwestern corner improved since early November. According to the National Interagency Fire Center, Montana's 2017 wildfire season resulted in...

  • 2018 Frontier Conference Men's Basketball Preview

    George Ferguson|Updated Dec 27, 2017

    Seasons change and scheduling is again different this season. But one thing that hasn't changed when it comes to the landscape of men's basketball in the Frontier Conference is that it's still as strong as ever. As Frontier play starts for good, the league has three teams inside the NAIA Top 25, and two more knocking on the door. The conference has a Top 4 team in Carroll College, the NAIA's highest-scoring team in UM-Western, and the country's top 3-point shooting team in...