Canada will extend port hours

Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]

A rather small step in the goal of extending the border port north of Havre into Canada to a 24-hour commercial port was taken this week. Havre Mayor Bob Rice said the Canadian government has agreed to match the U.S. extended summer hours at Wild Horse on a trial basis. “This is essentially all I had asked for, is to give it a shot,” Rice said this morning. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced last fall it was extending the summer hours at the port, which local and state resid...