The union representing 17 Havre police officers has filed a complaint with the state Board of Personnel Appeals alleging the city engaged in an unfair labor practice in its handling of a dispute over who should pay the officers' health insurance increases.

The complaint says the city didn't follow through on a verbal commitment to begin paying for half of the officers' increase in health insurance premiums.

Havre Mayor Bob Rice will meet tonight at 7 with the City Council's Labor Relations Committee in City Hall to discuss the complaint.

The Montana Public Employees Association, which repre...