Evening Newscast: Thursday, Apr 27

Yellowstone Public Radio

Published April 28, 2017 at 3:37 PM MDT

The Montana Senate has adjourned for the day after its gambit to bring the House back to the floor to pass an infrastructure package failed
Self-described "mountain man" Don Nichols has been granted parole after serving nearly 32 years for kidnapping a world class athlete on a training run in the mountains of southwestern Montana in July 1984 and killing her would-be rescuer
Authorities have killed a mountain lion after it was sighted a second time this week near homes and an elementary school in the central Wyoming city of Riverton
The Montana Human Rights Bureau has found a company unlawfully retaliated against a black employee who complained about multiple racist remarks made in the workplace
Gov. Steve Bullock is making another attempt to pass a bill allow Montana's designated resort communities to increase the 3 percent sales tax they now collect
The superintendent of Yellowstone National Park says the park is acting to address a report that found evidence of sexual harassment within the park's maintenance division
Another spring snowstorm has started to march through Wyoming
The state of Wyoming is asking the public how it should spend about $7.5 million from a multibillion-dollar settlement stemming from a class-action lawsuit against Volkswagen.