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Evening Newscast 08-10-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

The nearly 83 hundred acre Roaring Lion fire southwest of Hamilton is now 60% contained, up from yesterday’s fifty.

A group of Montana and federal wildlife officials is opposing a 57 million dollar concrete dam and fish bypass that the U.S. government says would help the ancient and endangered pallid sturgeon in the Yellowstone River.

The president of a bankrupt Great Falls company that owns restaurants in three states is charged with securities fraud for soliciting 4.5 million dollars from investors without telling them the business was struggling, and without registering the securities.

Tuesday night, a major storm in Great Falls caused a deluge at the CM Russell Museum.

Montana wildlife officials are proposing to keep elk that have been exposed to disease from mingling with other elk across a wide area north and west of Yellowstone National Park.

State wildlife officials believe two grizzly bears preyed on sheep in the Sweet Grass Hills in north-central Montana.

Montana women's basketball assistant coach Shannon Schweyen has been named the head coach of the Lady Griz.

Officials say Yellowstone National Park set a new record for monthly visitations in July, which is often the busiest month of the summer season.

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