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Evening Newscast 03-23-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal seeking to close Montana's Republican primary elections to only GOP-registered voters.

Montana officials have disqualified nine candidates for the Montana Legislature for not filing required campaign documents.

Montana election officials say it’s unlikely the state’s June primary election will see the kinds of long lines Arizona voters experienced Tuesday in that state’s presidential primary.

Montana Governor Steve Bullock's offer to partly reimburse the state when his official trips on a government-owned airplane coincide with campaign events isn't good enough for some Republican lawmakers.

A Flathead High School student has been designated a serious juvenile offender after admitting that he brought a gun on campus.

State prosecutors want to re-try 70 year old Joseph Campbell in the October 2013 shooting death of a neighbor in a rural subdivision southwest of Augusta.

Scientists in northern Idaho say declining levels of oxygen in Lake Coeur d'Alene raise concerns about toxic heavy metals buried in the lake bottom getting free and becoming suspended in the water column.

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