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Evening Newscast 05-07-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On this edition of the Montana Evening Newscast, state officials are looking to alternative firefighting resources due to the above-average wildfire season predicted for Montana and throughout much of the West.

Author Jon Krakauer told a Missoula audience last night that he was “surprised” that townspeople didn’t like the name of his new book: Missoula, Rape and Justice in a College Town.

The mother of three killed an apparent double homicide in Missoula last night is being remembered as kind, compassionate and inspirational.

Montana water users are being told to brace for early and below-average snowmelt runoff this spring.
Gov. Steve Bullock has signed into law a plan to pay for and enact Montana's strategy to preserve a struggling bird species.

A Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation official was sentenced today to six months in prison and six months home confinement after pleading guilty to stealing from a Chippewa Cree tribal rodeo association bank account.

Three Republican tax relief bills have died at the pen of Montana's Democratic governor this year.

State officials are looking to alternative firefighting resources due to the above-average wildfire season predicted for Montana and throughout much of the West.
 

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