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Evening Newscast 09-12-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Evening News

Montana officials say the integrity of November's election would be in peril if the state Supreme Court grants Republican Party chairman Jeff Essmann's petition to delay the printing of ballots to remove a candidate's name.

A government-commissioned study says there's "substantial risk" that a 57 million dollar dam and fish bypass proposed on the Yellowstone River won't meet its goal of helping pallid sturgeon.

Environmental organizations in two Montana cities are participating in a national rally tomorrow afternoon in support of the ongoing protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota.

Western Montana crops are vulnerable to potential freeze damage tonight.

A task force is forwarding to the Montana Legislature a bill that would reorganize the Office of the State Public Defender by creating a cabinet-level director to oversee the agency.

Conservation officers with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are investigating 
a missing female grizzly bear in the Post Creek area.

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