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Evening Newscast 08-11-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

There are now three fires burning in Yellowstone National Park.

A trade group for the energy industry is accusing federal officials of illegally canceling or postponing the sale of more than two dozen oil and gas leases over the past two years.

A judge has fined a Utah-based drilling company $100,000 after the company pleaded guilty to criminal charges over a 2011 oil spill in northwestern Montana.

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ new Veterans Healthcare Representative says she brings a unique perspective to the job.

Montana's Fish and Wildlife Commission has shot down a proposal to haze elk presumed to be exposed to brucellosis to keep them away from un-infected elk herds. 

Anaconda-Deer Lodge County has reached a tentative agreement that calls for the Atlantic Richfield Co. to pay $120 million over the next century to maintain properties where copper-smelting waste was capped in place, and to help improve the local economy.

Montana wildlife officials say the bear that attacked and killed a mountain biker near Glacier National Park was an 18- to 20-year-old male grizzly that had been previously captured.

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