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Evening Newscast 11-16-18

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

Montana election officials are planning to use the bulk of a $3 million federal grant on a new statewide voter registration system.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has named Shaun McGrath as the new director of the Department of Environmental Quality.

Officials have awarded a contract to replace 14 miles of pedestrian fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border to a company in Bozeman.

Both the Montana Governor’s Office and legislative researchers have now estimated how much money will be available for state budgeting over the next two years.

A male grizzly bear cub was killed by a train near Columbia Falls last week, adding to the abnormally high number of bear mortalities in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem this year.

Governor Steve Bullock has appointed a former liaison in the Obama White House to a state cabinet position leading the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.

A fight over who owns the fossils of two dinosaurs that appear to have died while locked in battle hinges on the legal definition of "mineral."

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