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Evening Newscast 03-01-18

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

Montana Resources and the Atlantic Richfield Company are planning to begin pumping and treating the toxic waters of the Berkeley Pit in Butte as soon as the end of this year. That’s five years earlier than planned.

Glacier National Park unveiled four options Wednesday night to restore the historic Sperry Chalet dormitory, destroyed by the Sprague Fire in August last year.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has officially joined the search for a missing Blackfeet woman last seen in Browning last June.

An elementary school student from Billings has died of complications due to influenza, the first child death due to the flu in Montana in three years.

Montana gun rights advocates are organizing a rally in defense of the Second Amendment later this month in Helena. The "March For Our Guns" rally is planned for Saturday, March 24, on the steps of the state Capitol. That’s the same day "March For Our Lives" groups nationwide plan rallies to protest gun violence.

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