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Evening Newscast 06-07-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

The Secretary of State's office says early voting is going smoothly in Montana's primary election.

Montana's primary election features contested races for president, state Supreme Court, Public Service Commission, and a slate of legislative races.

Glacier National Park saw a record of more than 178-thousand visitors in May, an increase of more than 32 percent over last May.

A 61-year-old man died after a tree fell on him at a commercial logging camp near Lake Mary Ronan, west of Flathead Lake.

Attorneys from the U-S Department of Justice met with tribal leaders on the Flathead Reservation to identify strategies that are working well to reduce disproportionately high incarceration rates for tribal members.

Montana’s snowpack is basically as good as it’s going to get this spring. That’s normal for early June. But what’s not so normal, according to Lucas Zukiewicz, is how quickly it’s melting off.

Primary races pitting Republican conservative and moderate candidates against each other could determine which faction steers the state Legislature in 2017.

Authorities say a federally protected grizzly bear has been illegally killed in eastern Idaho, and they’re offering a reward of at least $5,000 for information leading to the person or persons responsible.

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