Montana evening newscast for January 8, 2020.

Evening newscast for January 7, 2020.

Evening Newscast for Jan. 06, 2020

Montana’s Republican Congress members have signed onto a brief asking the Supreme Court of the United States to consider overruling previous decisions upholding the constitutional right to have an abortion. One of the largest coal-fired power plants in the western U.S. will close two of its four units within days as the Colstrip facility edges towards total shutdown. Kalispell Regional Healthcare is facing a second lawsuit over its handling of a data breach last year of up to 130,000 patients’

A U.S. judge in Montana ruled Friday that tribal and environmental lawsuits against the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline may go forward. Police on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation have identified a suspect, and seized a vehicle, believed to be involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 16-year-old girl earlier this month. Thirty-three bison were transferred from Yellowstone National Park to the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation on Monday.

Evening newscast for December 20, 2019.

Evening newscast for December 19, 2019.

In the historic vote making Donald Trump the third president to be impeached by Congress, Montana’s U.S. Representative Greg Gianforte voted against the articles. Two wolf pups from a famous wolf pack in Yellowstone were killed in the park by a car in November. Bear managers pushed back on recent concerns over grizzly deaths at a meeting of state and federal wildlife officials in Missoula Tuesday.

Evening newscast for Dec. 17, 2019.

A judge has sentenced Eric Lehman, former elementary school teacher and husband to Democratic candidate for public instruction superintendent Melissa Romano, to a three-year deferred sentence for felony drug possession. Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton is in Israel this week, with a bipartisan delegation of top state elections officials from across the United States. A 7-year-old boy has been safely returned to his family after being kidnapped during a car theft Saturday in Billings.