Border Road Divide: Friends Across the Line

0:00Picture this, a 14-kilometer gravel road called border road snakes through the sweet grass hills linking the U.S. and Canada. It's on the Montana side, but Alberta keeps it in top shape. Life-long neighbors, Ross Ford up in Canada and Roger Horgus, down in Montana, have shared it freely for decades. Back in the day, these guys in their 60s crossed that invisible line daily as kids bikes, horses, gocarts, no big deal. National Geographic even spotlighted their families in 1990 as symbols of border harmony. Now folks are bummed, Horgus calls the change ridiculous since Canadians handle all the road upkeep. Ford jokes the border will say right in the ditch between the new paths. They've seen more patrols lately, but no real uptick in trouble. To fix it, the U.S. is closing their sides to Canadians this summer over security worries like drugs and migrants. Albert is jumping in quick, building a parallel road just meters away on their side. Minister Devon Drieschen says they've got eight million

1:00dollars set aside, work kicks off in April, done by summer. These neighbors get the security needs, but the hard strings pull hard, farmers and friends don't stop at lines on maps. Friendships like theirs run deeper than any gravel strip. That's the story for today. Vancouver News Today, driven by AI. I'm Cory with the story.