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Morning Newscast 05-11-2016

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

Missoula drivers will be “feeling the Bern” around town today. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will be hosting a rally in Caras Park, prompting road closures all around downtown Missoula.

The legal fight over oil and gas drilling leases near Glacier National Park has drawn support of a collation of tribal and conservation leaders.

Authorities have identified a 26-year-old man who died from his injuries after jumping into a shallow pool of water at the base of a waterfall in Glacier National Park.

For the past three months, revenues flowing into Montana's general fund have slowed and are now nearly four percent behind projections.

Cascade County officials have released the names of three Great Falls women who were killed when a sport utility vehicle traveling the wrong way on Interstate 15 collided head-on with a semi tractor-trailer.

An October trial date has been set for a man charged with killing a Kalispell woman in Eastern Montana.

The controversy over the federal government’s proposal to remove grizzly bears from the endangered species list in the Yellowstone ecosystem is pushing thousands to speak out.

The Ravalli County sheriff's department is investigating after a Corvallis school bus driver left a 16-year-old developmentally-disabled girl on a school bus, in a restraint system, for three hours after the bus dropped other students off.

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