Problems with border hours again

Once again the international committee trying to upgrade operations at a border port north of Havre is faced with an hours problem — each side of the port is running different hours of operation.

“It was a surprise to me,” Havre Mayor Tim Solomon, who co-chairs the Wild Horse Border Committee with Medicine Hat, Alberta, Mayor Norm Boucher, said Wednesday.

After Canada not mirroring U.S. expanded summer hours at the port in each of several years, this year Canada is extending the time frame of the summer hours and the U.S. side is not.

The committee has been pushing for some 10 years to have th...