On this edition of the Montana Evening Newscast, Columbia Falls Aluminum Company announced today it’s permanently closing its doors. The plant stopped production in 2009 during the height of the recession.
Civil rights attorneys were in federal court today to argue that hundreds of racist emails from Montana's former Chief U.S. District Judge should be preserved as potential evidence in future lawsuits.
A 74-year-old Libby man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he shot another man to death in his living room.
A Whitefish man charged with shooting at two motorcyclists during a road rage incident last August has reached a plea agreement that recommends he be sentenced to 10 years under the supervision of the Department of Corrections.
State lawmakers are on their mid-session break until Thursday. In the first half of the session, nearly 350 bill proposals died. UM Legislative News Service’s Madelyn Beck reports on some of what won’t change in Montana as a result.
Spring enrollment at the University of Montana is down 4.7 percent over last year. And enrollment at Missoula College is down 10.9 percent versus last year.
Officials have released the cause of death for a Kallispell man who died in prison Sunday.