Wild Horse Port to resume winter hours

Staff and wire report

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced that the hours at the Port of Wild Horse north of Havre on Montana Secondary Highway 232 will resume winter hours on Oct. 1. The port will operate from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.

The port has limited hours, running 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the summer with the further reduced hours in the winter.

Wild Horse also is a permit port, which means a permit is required to import commercial merchandise.

A committee comprising residents of north-central Montana and Alberta has been trying for more than a decade to have the port upgraded...