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Evening Newscast 05-01-18

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

The White House is taking President Donald Trump's beef against Sen. Jon Tester to Montana's airwaves.

Three Billings police officers who were disciplined for having sex with a civilian department employee on city property argue that releasing their names would give them a bad reputation and affect their ability to do their jobs.

A former Washington deputy has been given a three-year deferred sentence after he drove through a crash scene and led police on a chase in western Montana while inebriated.

A month-and-a-half after students nationwide walked out of class to advocate for safer schools, some students in Columbia Falls plan to walk out of class Wednesday in support of the Second Amendment.

Glacier National Park will begin opening park waters to boaters in the next few weeks with beefed up inspection requirements put in place after invasive mussels were first detected in Montana in 2016.

One of the country's national park attractions will soon be free of charge. Bighorn Canyon National Recreation area will be free to enter starting May 25.

Congressman Greg Gianforte says some changes to public lands management he’s been pushing for have made it into the draft of the Farm Bill Congress is expected to take up in couple of weeks.

People rafting Idaho's Salmon River this summer will need to find an alternative way to dispose of their waste after officials have discontinued the longstanding disposal method.

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