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Evening Newscast 06-21-19

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast

Montana's unemployment rate dipped slightly to 3.6 percent in May, with the state seeing gains in payroll employment among the federal government and the accommodation and food service sectors.

A judge says new legislation is complicating a lawsuit over whether Montana's health department was wrong to deny licenses to the state's largest medical marijuana business to start five new operations.

A federal judge sentenced a Montana man to six years in prison today for the stabbing death of another man on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.

Authorities say a black bear somehow locked itself inside a Missoula home this morning.

A woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for running over her husband with her minivan on the Crow Indian Reservation was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison yesterday.

It’s the first day of summer and a snowstorm shutdown the Beartooth Highway last night.

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