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Meeting Notice and Agenda St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group will meet in Havre City Hall’s basement conference room, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, from 10 a.m.m to 12:30 p.m. The meeting agenda is: • Call to Order — Lt.... — Updated 9/15/2023

A historic deal more than a century in the making requiring the federal government to ensure members of the Fort Belknap Indian Community have water — and ensures water is available to everyone along the Milk River — took anot... — Updated 7/31/2023

An agreement more than a century in the making to settle water rights issues and provide water to Fort Belknap Indian Community — and to people all along the Milk River — Wednesday when the Fort Belknap Indian Community... — Updated 7/21/2023

Meetings are set to begin planning for the next phase of rehabilitating the system that provides much — almost all in some years — of the water in the Milk River: the St. Mary Diversion and Conveyance Works. The Milk River Join... — Updated 6/29/2023

Montana Senss Jon Tester, a Democrat, and Steve Daines, a Republican, introduced the Fort Belknap Indian Community Water Rights Settlement Act to the Senate Wednesday, a potentially historic bill that will secure the Fort Belknap... — Updated 6/15/2023

Staff and wire report The road crossing Fresno Dam has been reduced to a single lane of traffic this week, with the restriction running from Tuesday to June 16, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced. The lane closure is part of the... — Updated 6/7/2023

Press release Starting Thursday, May 25, 2023, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Hungry Horse Dam Visitor Center will be open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mountain Time. The outdoor, guided walking tours will resume June... — Updated 5/23/2023

St. Mary Rehabilitation Working Group will meet Tuesday, May 23, 2023, from 10 a.m. to noon in the Basement Conference Room of Havre City Hall. The meeting agenda is: 1. Call to Order — Lt. Gov. Kristen Juras, co-chair 2.... — Updated 5/22/2023

Press release The Bureau of Reclamation is scheduled to host a public meeting Wednesday, May 24, 2023, from 6-8 p.m. at the Chester Community/Senior Center at 618 E. Adams Ave., Chester, to discuss recreation at Tiber Reservoir, Di... — Updated 5/17/2023

Press release BILLINGS — The contractor selected to complete the Fresno Dam Safety Modifications, NW Construction, plans to begin mobilization activities the week of April 17. The project will be one of the topics at the open... — Updated 4/4/2023

Press release Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks will host the annual open house and present information on Fresno Reservoir and the Fresno fishery in Havre April 5 starting at 6 p.m. at the Best Western Plus Inn and Suites “on... — Updated 3/30/2023

U.S. Sen Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced Tuesday that he today secured $77.56 million through his bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, IIJA, for the Rocky Boy’s/North Central Montana Regional Water System. The... — Updated 2/15/2023

U.S. Bureau of Reclamation The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will conduct a dive exam of the outlet works intake and stilling basin at Fresno Dam, 15 miles west of Havre, Oct. 17. The outlet works will be closed starting at 9 a.m.... — Updated 10/11/2022

Fort Belknap Indian Community and three conservation organizations filed a motion to intervene Monday against an attempt to overturn a ruling on a decision about conducting mining exploration in the Little Rocky Mountains south... — Updated 9/21/2022

Editor, Fresno Reservoir, Aug. 23, 2022: The pelicans, herons, plovers, and gulls are mostly gone. The fish are starving, some are dying. The water levels are dropping faster than the clams can move. They die on the shore, far... — Updated 8/26/2022

A board is looking for public comment on and is holding a virtual webinar this week about a work plan to be submitted to the commission that oversees the waters that flow between the U.S. and Canada about how to apportion waters... — Updated 8/16/2022