Hill County News

HELENA-Ever since Republican Mayor Bob Rice was elected in 2001, Havre city government has seen a gradual shift to the right.

Montana Department of Commerce Director Anthony Preite toured the Hi-Line Monday and Tuesday, handing out $2.6 million in checks for economic development projects.

HAVRE - Ethel V. McSloy, 86, a homemaker and former Hill County resident, died of natural causes Saturday at a Chinook nursing home.

Les Stevenson came to Montana on the promise of a $35-per-day job. In 1955, the then 21-year-old, who was raised on a dairy and grain farm in North Dakota, heard that was the wage for a combine driver.

Several agencies are helping put economic stimulus dollars are to work on the Rocky Boy's Reservation, and The News Station's Tim McGonigal reports on how the groups are working together to build a bridge - for now and the future.

There are more available city council and mayor positions than candidates across most of the Hi-Line. However, Havre has a hot race as two Democrats face off in the mail-in primary Tuesday to take on the incumbent Republican mayor.

A BNSF Railway spokesman says that a 3-year-old boy has been struck and killed by a freight train in northern Montana.

It was a long time coming, but the Hi-Line in northcentral Montana will once again - finally - have affordable public transportation that will link it with the rest of the state.

It was a long time coming, but the Hi-Line in northcentral Montana will once again - finally - have affordable public transportation that will link it with the rest of the state.

HAVRE - Mary G. Brady, 89, of Havre, died of natural causes Sunday at a Havre hospital.

HAVRE - Saddle bronc star Jesse Kruse of Great Falls is hotter than the weather.

The Great Northern Fair in Havre boasts a 79-year history of celebrating agriculture on the Hi-Line. Formerly the Hill County Fair, it has been held every year since 1929, missing just one year because of drought.

The Chippewa Cree Tribe faces a complex mix of federal/tribal jurisdictional problems on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation.

An Oklahoma couple accused of transporting their daughter's remains through three states appeared in Hill County Court on Thursday for an extradition hearing.

HELENA - An extradition hearing will be held today for an Oklahoma couple accused of burying a young girl, then digging up her remains and moving the body from state to state for more than a year.

A couple has been arrested in Hill County near Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation today on charges of unlawfully moving the body of their young daughter from state to state.

The Hill County Sheriff's Office arrested three Havre-area men in connection with the fire that destroyed the Havre Jaycees fireworks booth Tuesday.

The Hill County Sheriff's Office has determined that the Tuesday morning fire that torched the Havre Jaycees' fireworks stand was set intentionally.

HAVRE, Mont. - The U.S. Border Patrol seized marijuana and hashish with an estimated total value of more than $10,000 from a suspect at the Amtrak station in Havre.

The U.S. Border Patrol announced today that one suspect is in custody after being arrested on drug charges at the Amtrak train station in Havre.