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Evening Newscast 08-13-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: Greater restrictions on burning will go into effect later this week as fire danger increases in Northwest Montana.

A Chippewa Cree tribal court jury has cleared tribal chairman Ken St. Marks of defrauding the tribe and ordered the tribe to pay him more than $200,000 for his company's work on a pipeline project.

Grizzly bears are venturing further east from the Rocky Mountains and attacking more Montana cattle and sheep.

Two University of Montana programs will share over $3.5-million-dollars in state research funds.

The Montana National Guard has sent four helicopters and 48 soldiers to help fight wildfires in response to a shortage of resources in the state.

Bozeman software entrepreneur Greg Gianforte says he's not yet ready to lay out a campaign platform.

 

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