Evening Newscast 03-18-15

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Josh Burnham

On this edition of the Montana Evening Newscast, a bomb threat prompted evacuation of both Montana State University Billings and its 2-year affiliate program, City College, this morning.

The Montana House began a contentious two-day debate Wednesday on the state's biennial budget, making last session's bipartisan House budget deal seem a distant memory.

Attorneys presented their opening arguments today in the city of Missoula’s lawsuit to force the sale of its water utility from current owners, Mountain Water Company and the Carlyle Group.

The Montana House set aside its usual schedule Wednesday for a marathon floor session devoted to the state budget

The quiet of Big Sandy's block-long commercial district was disrupted one afternoon this week when two vehicles sped into town and their seven occupants got out and began fighting.

A bill before Congress to grant federal recognition to Montana's Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians has advanced past a Senate committee.

A former Bureau of Land Management employee pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges that he abandoned his post in Virginia but continued drawing a federal salary after going to work for the Chippewa Cree Tribe in Montana.

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