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Evening Newscast 03-10-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast:

Montana’s House has officially killed Governor Bullock’s Medicaid expansion proposal.

Missoula’s housing authority is getting $600,000 to help build new apartments for the homeless. Those with mental illness will get priority.

An income tax cut bill advanced to the full House at the state legislature today.

State senators are contemplating repealing Montana's oil and gas tax holiday under a recurring Democratic proposal.

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has released the initial plan for a new wildfire-fighting strategy.

Idaho officials say federal hunters have killed 19 wolves in northern Idaho in an effort to reduce wolf numbers and increase the elk population.

A coroner's jury has found that a Missoula police officer was justified when he shot a man to death after a high-speed chase through the city early on New Year's Eve.

Tomorrow the Montana Legislature will hear a bill that would require anesthesia for fetuses before operations in the womb.

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