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In October 2021 Xavier Clark shot and killed 21-year-old Dyllan Murray at a house party in Havre. For the last 520 days Xavier Clark has been in jail pending court. Yesterday, Monday March 20th, 2023, Xavier’s official sentencing was set. Before the judge determined sentencing video accounts of the...

Malta native Sophia Stiles saw her college basketball career come to a close on Monday evening as No. 12 Florida Gulf Coast fell to No. 4 Villanova 76-57 in the second round of the women's NCAA Tournament. Stiles finished with two points in 24 minutes of play on Monday. She...

The 36th annual Hi-Line Invitational boys and girls basketball tournament begins Thursday and concludes Saturday in Havre. All games will be played at the Armory Gymnasium on the campus of MSU-Northern.

The Malta native and No. 12 Florida Gulf Coast University topped No. 5 Washington State 74-63 on Saturday afternoon in the opening round of the women's NCAA Tournament. With the win, the Eagles advance to the second round for the second straight year. For Stiles, it was the first time...

The Extreme Bares and Broncs Rodeo is back in Havre. The Rodeo event featuring some of the best riders in the country is set to take place March 31st & April 1st beginning at 7PM at the Bigger Better Barn. New Media Broadcasters sat down with Pro Rodeo Announcer Barney...

MISSOULA — Sophia Stiles' college basketball career has been fruitful and fraught with danger. There were the knee and shoulder surgeries in her five years on the Montana Lady Griz team. Then just last week she fractured her cheekbone playing guard for Florida Gulf Coast in an Atlantic Sun Conference tournament semifinal against Austin Peay.

TULSA, Okla. — Sixth-year Purdue graduate student Parker Filius of Havre placed seventh at 141 pounds at the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships here on Saturday. It is the first time the four-time State A champion earned an All-American finish. He is a four-time NCAA Championships qualifier at 141 pounds, having competed at the meet the past three seasons. The 2020 NCAA meet was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, although Filius qualified for the meet at the Big Ten Championships.

Winter weather hit northeast Montana last week, with snow and gusty winds wreaking havoc on the area. The National Weather Service in Glasgow issued a Winter Storm Warning for southern Valley, Phillips and Roosevelt counties March 10. NWSG meteorologist Grant Hicks told the Northern Plains Independent that the blizzard was effectively over by Saturday at 6 p.m.

HAVRE — Three straight state titles and five in the last six years for the Blue Ponies and they have no plans on slowing down. Dustin Kraske has been at the head of the program for 17 years now and has won a total of six state championships in that time. But if anyone were to ask him the secret to their success, he’d tell you it’s not much of a secret at all.

Havre native and current Purdue Boilermaker Parker Filius has advanced to the Quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship Tournament. No.12 ranked Fillius first defeated No.21 Cleveland Belton of Oregon State (8-3). After, No.12 ranked Filius defeated No.5 Ryan Jack of N.C. State. Filius trailed 5-1 going into the...

The rancher stewardship alliance hosted succession story events where speakers explained the process of passing down the family ranch onto the next generation. Haylie Shipp the lead communication and outreach lead for the rancher stewardship alliance explains how the events went. “Honestly we were a little bit worried, we had...

The Lady Cougars matched up with the Malta M-Ettes in the first round of the Class B State tournament last Thursday night in Great Falls. The girls showed their presence and competed well against the first-place seed from the Northern Division, down by only 4 points at the half. Although they followed the game plan they had set up for themselves, they let a good Malta shooter get loose a few too many times and she made them pay. The Cougars dropped their first game, 38-45.

An event aimed to empower people is coming to Dodson soon. Wesley Killeagle Jr. the host of the event explains more. “We got a couple motivational speakers coming in. We got Kia Stewart, he’s a 145-pound fighter. He’s ranked number one right now. We got Billy Wagner who is out of Browning who in October fought Niko Walsh Ali, that’s Muhamed Ali’s grandson and then we got Dave Evans coming in to do a talk. He is a trainer out of Great Falls. He works with both these fighters. They’re coming in April 1st to Dodson, Montana to give an anti-bullying motivational speech kind of thing to help curb the bullying epidemic that’s going on hopefully curb the suicide epidemic as well.” -Wesley Killeagle Jr.

Michael O’Malley, a social studies teacher at Laurel High School, grew up in Big Sandy, which is a small, small town 30 miles south of Havre. “It was all dirt roads. We only had one paved street and only one street light,” O’Malley explained. In high school, he played basketball for four years and was a track runner for four years. Running became part of his personality, as he participated in road races for 20 years after high school.

Unfortunately, the snow over the weekend prevented the Harlem car show. Max Cederburg the chairman for the show explains the cancellation. “We had a really bad storm all day Friday, and pretty much all of the Northern part of the state was bad. So, the people that had committed called and said they weren’t going to be able to make it, and then of course Saturday morning when we got up was so much snow and our roads hadn’t been plowed yet and was blocked. So, we decided to call it off. It’s the first time since we started doing the car show, it’s probably been 30 years that we haven’t had to completely cancel. We’ve had some pretty bummy days and not too many entries, but we’ve always had a few. So, it’s just the way the circumstances were.” -Max Cederburg.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. - History was made in Class B this weekend at Four Seasons Arena, as high school hoops March Madness concluded with the Loyola boys and Bigfork girls earning their programs first ever state title. FINAL SCORES:. (Boys) Loyola Sacred Heart Rams - 66, Malta Mustangs - 55.

BILLINGS, Mont. — The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $43,599,090 contract to NW Construction out of Bozeman, Montana to conduct a dam modification to Fresno Dam. Project construction is scheduled to begin in April 2023. The Tailwater Fishing Access Site will be closed to public access once construction starts.

When the going gets tough for the Missoula Loyola boys’ basketball team, the philosophy is simple. “Feed the beast,” senior guard Nick Konzen said, referring to 6-foot-5 post Reynolds Johnston. Johnston exploded for 14 points in the third quarter Saturday at Four Seasons Arena, keying Loyola’s 65-55 victory...

All public schools in Montana were required to test their water fixtures for lead starting in 2020. At that time Havre public schools tested their water for lead and found that some fixtures exceeded the state’s minimum level for lead. Scott Filius the Director of Facilities and Transportation for...

For the first time since 2017, the Malta boys’ basketball team is off to the Class B state championship game. The Mustangs built a big lead early and withstood a second-half Bigfork run to win 47-41 in the state semifinals Friday at Four Seasons Arena. “That’s how we’ve been...