Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
HELENA – A bill that would have appropriated $5 million for the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation office to take on the cases of privately held state-based water rights if the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ Water Compact does not pass is likely dead. House ...
LAKE COUNTY — A Confederated Salish and Kootenai firefighter is being charged with felony arson for allegedly starting seven forest fires in the summer of 2014. A tip from a fellow firefighter began an investigation in which Phillip Cody Haynes, unknown age and residence, told a Lake County Sheriff&...
PABLO — A think tank of people who care deeply about children and work for their welfare gathered at the Johnnie Arlee/Victor Charlo Theater on the Salish Kootenai College Campus on March 18 to discuss early childhood education in Lake County. Lake County Democrats sponsored the panel. Panel member ...
Spring Mack Days sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and sanctioned by Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks began March 20 and will end on May 17. The event has up to $225,000 in cash and prizes that will be awarded to hard-working anglers at the conclusion of the fishing event that is...
Governor Steve Bullock predicted the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact will pass the legislative session after a more intense fight in the House of Representatives than was seen in the Montana Senate in February. Bullock spoke with tribal councilmembers Friday in Pablo about the compact...
RONAN – Ronan City Council unanimously voted to make a $40,000 offer on three lots adjacent to Bockman Park on March 17. “The lots are directly behind the liquor store and they go down against the memorial, and the corner of one is actually in the middle of the creek,” Public Works...
FLATHEAD LAKE — Off to a great start, anglers in the 2015 Spring Mack Days fishing event turned in a total of 3,774 lake trout entries over the first weekend. The weather was great on Friday and the anglers many who had not fished all winter were anxious to get on the water. Friday’s tot...
ST. IGNATIUS – A lobbyist for the Flathead Joint Board of Control told irrigation commissioners last week that she expects the ongoing battle over state approval of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Water Compact to last into April. “It is likely the hearing will be sometime aft...
ST. IGNATIUS – The Flathead Joint Board of Control has released a privately-commissioned study that predicts irrigators will receive substantially less water under the proposed Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact than is necessary to sustain agriculture for farms on the project, but g...
PABLO — Flags were at half-mast and tribal headquarters was closed on Monday as the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes mourned the passing of a legal trailblazer who left a legacy of ground-breaking legal work behind her. Evelyn Stevenson, 75, died March 12 in Ronan from h...
