Evening Newscast 02-20-17

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Evening Newscast 02-20-17
Josh Burnham

Montana lawmakers have rejected a $400,000 request to expand a state program to train doctors. The Joint Appropriations Subcommittee on Education did not approve an expansion request from Montana's Graduate Medical Education program.

Two conservation groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council, filed suit in Federal District Court in Missoula Friday, challenging the Stonewall Vegetation Project in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest.

In a party line vote, Republican lawmakers killed a bill on Monday aiming to protect lesbian, gay and transgender people under Montana’s civil rights laws.

Hard to access public lands have become a hot topic lawmakers are trying to solve at the Montana legislature.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Andrew Schneider, a public health reporter for Lee Montana Newspapers, has died at age 74. Schneider broke the story of asbestos contamination in Libby, Montana, leading to an EPA Superfund cleanup.

Senate President Scott Sales withdrew his bid today for Congressman Ryan Zinke’s soon to be vacant seat.

A lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require owners to pay for the care of animals seized during cruelty investigations.

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