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Evening Newscast 04-01-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: Today at the state legislature, discussions started in the Senate about the state budget.

The assistant helitack manager on the Helena National Forest is the only survivor of helicopter crash in Mississippi Monday.

The only Medicaid expansion plan that’s still alive in the Montana Legislature has been assigned to a House Committee – the same committee that killed Governor Bullock’s original Medicaid expansion plan last month.

State lawmakers passed a measure urging school employees to complete suicide awareness and prevention training.

State wildlife officials say bird flu killed a captive falcon in Columbia Falls, marking the first report of avian influenza in the state.

At the capitol today, Senators came together to add some funding back into the correctional system that was stripped out of the state budget in the House.

A months-long battle over the fate of a partially collapsed building in Butte was sealed yesterday when Butte-Silver Bow County crews began demolishing it to help fight a fire that had been burning in the rubble for days.

Some of Montana’s hunters won a victory in the state House today (Wednesday) as lawmakers and the Governor came together over a bill to let sportsmen used sound suppressors on their rifles.

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