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Evening Newscast 03-31-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

Montana's campaign regulator says dark-money groups' influence has damaged the state's election process.

Montana's superintendent of public instruction says this year's Smarter Balanced testing is going smoothly.

The crews are scheduled to begin clearing Camas Road tomorrow before taking on the 52-mile Going-to-the-Sun Road.

And In Yellowstone National Park, Bicycle season begins today.

Residents of a Missoula apartment building say their smoke alarms alerted them to an early morning fire, allowing them time to escape.

State Representative Art Wittich testified today that his memory is hazy on meetings, correspondence and payments from 2010, but one thing is clear. He did not knowingly take illegal contributions from an anti-union organization during his election campaign that year.

Some 465 coal mine workers in northeast Wyoming are being laid off.

One of the owners of the coal-fired electricity plants Colstrip Units 1 and 2 denies his company is angling for a fast-track closure. An attorney from Washington’s Puget Sound Energy told attendees at the Montana Energy Conference in Billings today the utility is looking to the long-term. Yellowstone Public Radio’s Jackie Yamanaka reports.

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