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Evening Newscast 06-22-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: Helena school officials are considering their next move in the wake of last week's defeat of a $70-million elementary school bond.

Artist and historian Robert F. "Bob" Morgan, the founder of Helena's Western Rendezvous of Art, has died of kidney failure. He was 85.

After four years as the deputy superintendent of Glacier National Park, Kym Hall is leaving Montana.

A federal appeals court has decided the U.S. Forest Service failed to thoroughly analyze or publicize the impact of snowmobiles on wildlife in Montana's Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

Helena voters last week defeated a $70-million-dollar school facilities bond proposal. Helena's superintendent of schools says he wishes proponents would have done a better job of explaining the complex issue.

Congressman Ryan Zinke is among a group of Republicans who received donations from the leader of a white supremacist group cited by Charleston church murder suspect Dylann Roof.

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