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Evening Newscast 09-28-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Evening News

The city of Bozeman is hiring a lobbyist to push for local sales taxes during the 2017 legislative session.

This week the Department of Interior asked a federal judge to give them more time to respond to a lawsuit over cancelled oil and gas leases in the Lewis and Clark National Forest.

A new budget analysis projects that the state’s general fund balance will fall by more than half by the end of 2017. That’s because state revenues are expected to continue declining into the next fiscal year.

A magistrate judge has concluded that a private prison in Shelby is not to blame for the death of a medical marijuana provider who was incarcerated there.

Park County authorities are searching for an Iowa hunter reported missing in the Crazy Mountains of south-central Montana.

The Montana Supreme Court today upheld a 2012 Montana Public Service Commission decision rejecting a proposed 1.4 million dollar increase in electricity rates.

All three members of Montana’s Congressional delegation voted in favor of the first-ever override of a veto by President Obama.

Lewis and Clark County has appointed a new coroner to finish the term of the late Mickey Nelson.

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