Montana evening newscast for August 30, 2019.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is around a dozen presidential candidate hopefuls who failed to make the third Democratic Party debate. The U.S. agency that administers health care for more than 2.5 million Native Americans has long been plagued with problems that have hindered progress. The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks is wrapping up a series of public meetings on Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD.

A Montana court has denied changes to the wording of a ballot referendum that would limit local governments' ability to enact gun restrictions. A newly appointed Trump administration official who oversees nearly a quarter-billion public acres in the U.S. West says his past support for selling federal lands is "irrelevant." A former Miles City high school athletic trainer was today sentenced to 20 years in prison for having child pornography on his computer.

A $2 million grant for retraining workers expected to be displaced with the closure of two units at the Colstrip coal-fired power plant in southeastern Montana remains untapped because plant owners haven't given the workers layoff notices. A New Jersey appeals court is allowing a new law to go into effect that lets terminally ill patients get life-ending drugs. A semitractor-trailer crossed the centerline and struck a car just south of Hardin, killing the driver and a passenger in the car and

Montana Public Radio evening news, August 26, 2019.

Today is the deadline for public input on the Montana health department’s draft proposal to add work and community service requirements to the state’s health coverage program for low income adults. The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced yesterday it won’t pursue federal charges in the death of a young girl whose body was found near Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation late last year. Billings residents endured another night of power outages, flash flooding and building damage as a severe

The Blackfeet Nation hopes to grow the Head Start programs on its reservation. Steve Bullock is now the only governor remaining in the crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates, and it’s unclear if he’ll make it on the next primary debate stage. The U.S. government official who oversees research into fossil fuel technology is visiting Wyoming at a crucial time for the coal-mining state.

A split Montana Supreme Court has reversed a man's conviction for the 1999 drowning death of his wife near a dam in southeastern Montana. Two juveniles arrested in a shooting death and a fatal hit-and-run in northwest Montana have entered pleas to lesser state charges.

The wrestling coach for Great Falls’ University of Providence was placed on administrative leave yesterday after his name turned up in the court records for a human trafficking case. Two small wildfires southwest of Missoula have grown little, if at all, since they were detected yesterday afternoon. Three people died in highway accidents in Western Montana yesterday.

A woman has died after a demolition derby car flew through a fence and into spectators yesterday in Deer Lodge. A judge approved the sale of three mines in Montana and Wyoming owned by a bankrupt coal company today. Public land advocates say more than six million acres of state property across eleven Western states is landlocked by private property and largely inaccessible to recreational users.