On this edition of the Montana Evening Newscast, the state Legislature has passed a proposal to phase out the Montana Developmental Center, by a final vote of 44-6 in the Senate today.
In other news from the capitol, lawmakers on Thursday brought the state employee pay plan back into the state budget.
A man charged with striking and killing a Cascade County deputy during a police chase is seeking new defense attorneys.
Federal officials say they are trying to cut in half the time it takes to review wind projects across Montana and four other states in the Upper Great Plains.
A Billings judge who was censured by the state supreme court for his comments about a 14-year-old rape victim has been chosen for a lifetime achievement award by his local bar association.
A large shorebird that nests in grasslands and uses its extra-long beak to pluck crustaceans from mudflats and wolf spiders from animal burrows will be the subject of an intense study this summer in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming
A Great Falls woman has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide for her role in the methadone overdose death of a 19-year-old man last year.