Havre Weekly Chronicle | |
Type: | Weekly newspaper |
Owner: | Grand Teton News |
Founders: | --> |
Publisher: | George Ferguson |
Editor: | Tim Leeds |
Foundation: | 1914 |
Language: | English |
Headquarters: | Havre, Montana |
Circulation: | 3,500 |
Circulation Date: | 2019 |
Circulation Ref: | [1] |
The Havre Weekly Chronicle is a weekly newspaper printed in Havre, Montana, US. The paper serves Hill County and the Hi-Line of north-central Montana, named for the northernmost line of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, originally built by the Great Northern Railway.
The Havre Daily Promoter was founded in 1914,[2] and it became the Havre Daily News-Promoter in 1925.[3] R.G. "Liney" Linebarger became publisher in 1920. He sold the newspaper in 1928 and went on to found the Harve Independent in 1931.[4]
The Havre Daily News was purchased by Scripps League Newspapers in 1963, which spun off its newspapers to form Pioneer News Group in 1974.[5] The company sold the newspaper in 2005 to Robb Hicks, Gary Stevenson and Tom Mullen.[6] In 2011, Stacy Mantle succeeded Martin Cody as publisher of the Havre Daily News, and in 2021 sports editor George Ferguson took over as publisher.[7] In May 2024, the paper moved from daily to weekly publication and changed its name to the Havre Weekly Chronicle.[8]