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Evening Newscast 06-11-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: Union workers at Stillwater Mining Co. have rejected a proposed four-year contract that they said could result in a reduction in take-home pay.

An attempt to strip a bonding provision from a new forest management bill failed today on Capitol Hill.

Lobbyists spent at least $5.8 million to influence Montana lawmakers and the issues they discussed this year.

Glacier National park marked another attendance milestone Thursday morning as the 100 millionth visitor in park history drove through the west entrance.

Authorities in Washington state have arrested a man they say kidnapped his girlfriend in Montana and led police on a high-speed chase after she escaped and called for help.

Tribal Wildlife Biologists  killed two female yearling grizzly bears from the St. Ignatius area on Tuesday.

Montana wildlife officials are today releasing a long-awaited wild bison study that contemplates restoring the animals to public, tribal or private lands more than a century after they were driven to near-extinction.

State wildlife commissioners want to use an aggressive public hunting campaign to kill off a diseased herd of 30-40 bighorn sheep in the Tendoy Mountains southeast of Dillon.

Across the U.S. the bird flu outbreak has caused big egg price increases, higher demands and even egg rations. But in Montana, egg producers aren’t seeing similar changes.

 

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