Paul Dragu

Child abuse and neglect cases in Montana district courts spiked by 130 percent between 2009 and 2015, an increase strongly connected to substance abuse, especially methamphetamine, according to government data.

The city argues in its filings, the person who called police provided her full name as well as her brother’s name. She also told police where they were, their suspicion that the driver was drunk, and provided an accurate description of the vehicle he was driving

A Chinook man who poached two bull elk in February is serving a six-month sentence in the Valley County Detention Center and is banned from hunting, fishing and trapping for the next 25 years.

While Native Americans, fur trappers and soldiers arrived in north central Montana before the first rail tie was staked, it was James Hill’s railroad that made a path to and matured what would become Havre from a one-horse frontier town to an incorporated municipality.

The former Hill County attorney who was found guilty of three counts of contempt may have exhausted her final plea. On Tuesday, the Montana Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson to reverse a local judge’s Aug. 7 contempt findings.

Havre High School has been canceled Tuesday because of a threat found in the boys’ bathroom. Parents received text messages at 8 p.m. Monday notifying them school will be closed.

Havre Sector U.S. Border Patrol agents arrested a man suspected of being a Honduran national who apparently ran from officers because he was in the U.S. illegally.

A blanket of snow fell while Montana's Hi-Line slept. On Wednesday, the snow fell gently, benignly, in Havre and Rocky Boy. The Bear Paws already got a dusting Saturday. But temperatures are predicted to stay above freezing all week, leaving little chance the flakes will stick around.

Hill County Attorney Karen Alley, a former deputy attorney, started her new position July 30, taking over after Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson abruptly resigned. But until Jan. 1, Alley is working for the same wages she received as a deputy attorney, about $30,000 less than what the former county attorney earned.

Former Hill County Attorney Jessica Cole-Hodgkinson received $49,000 to resign her position, according to the Voluntary Resignation Agreement obtained by The Havre Herald. The agreement says the county promised confidentiality to the embattled barrister. The county was advised that the agreement is a public document following a formal request for its release by The Havre Herald.