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Evening Newscast 09-16-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

Trails in Missoula’s Rattlesnake Recreation Area are open again after being closed since September 2nd due to heavy bear activity in the area.

On October 1st, Montana will become the last state to require the chickenpox vaccination for public school students.

Jordan Graham, the woman who pled guilty to pushing her new husband of a cliff in Glacier National Park, is asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to allow her to withdraw her guilty plea.

The Missoula-City-County Health Department has confirmed several cases of seasonal flu in Missoula County.

A team looking into Montana's high suicide rate found that out of the 243 completed suicides in the state last year, 81 percent were males and nearly a quarter of them were veterans.

For the third month in a row, Glacier Park International Airport had a record number of passengers fly out of Kalispell in August.

Federal officials say a 150-square-mile area in southwestern Idaho will serve as a public lands sanctuary for non-reproducing wild horses from around the West that have nowhere else to go.

A broadband advocacy group will test Internet speeds at Montana public schools this fall to determine places needing faster connections.

The former manager of the Lunch Box restaurant in Havre was given a 10 year suspended sentence and ordered to pay more than 70 thousand dollars in restitution for embezzling.

The Montana Standard reports the Golden Sunlight Mine will be laying off about 140 members their workforce by the end of November.

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