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Evening Newscast 03-31-2017

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Evening Newscast

A Montana Roman Catholic diocese is filing for bankruptcy protection as part of an unfolding settlement with 72 people who filed sex abuse claims.

Democrats have failed in a last-ditch effort to let counties conduct the May 25 special congressional election by mail.

Fiscal conservatives in the Montana House have rejected an infrastructure bill that contained $78 million in bonding. In this tight budget year, a Montana lawmaker is looking for ways to lower the state’s suicide rate without spending any state funds.

Governor Steve Bullock and members of his staff interviewed candidates for the job of Montana’s next Commissioner of Political Practices, this afternoon.

About 50 people attended a public meeting in Livingston earlier this week to discuss the closure of 183 miles of the Yellowstone River late last summer when a parasite killed tens of thousands of fish.

Fire season is, for many people, a single season, but a team of resource managers and homeowners in the Flathead Valley is trying to change that.
 

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