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Evening Newscast 06-24-16

MTPR Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

Officials say the loss of about 200 jobs in Columbia Falls will be a punch in the gut for a community that was recovering from the 2009 closure of an aluminum plant.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is rallying Montana union members as they convene in Helena for their annual convention.

A man has pleaded not guilty to federal charges of kidnapping and raping a 4-year-old girl who was taken from a park on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation earlier this year.

State attorneys say a judge should only delay enforcement of new medical marijuana restrictions until the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether to take up the matter.

A former editor of the Missoulian has dropped her lawsuit claiming she was wrongfully discharged by the newspaper.

The former Navy SEAL who claims to have fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden will go to trial in September on a drunken-driving charge.

Montana Republicans met today at the Missoula Hilton Garden Hotel for day-one of their party’s biggest fundraising event of the year.

A northwestern Montana newspaper editor has resigned amid questions about his involvement with an effort to recall Libby's mayor.

After 48 years, the remains of a long-missing Vietnam War veteran are being laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

State wildlife officials are working to figure out why black crappie have been dying in the Bailey Reservoir south of Havre.

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