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Evening Newscast 08-15-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

The Copper King Fire, burning on nearly eighteen hundred acres east of Thompson Falls, is now 20 percent contained.

Two people are dead in an apparent murder-suicide in Butte.

A proposal to transfer wild bison from Yellowstone National Park to the Fort Peck Indian reservation is meeting resistance from state livestock officials.

The state Land Board has approved the lease of 450 acres near the Billings airport for a possible solar development that would produce 70 megawatts of power.

Mineral County sheriff's employees who went on strike for 10 days this summer after working for more than a year without a contract have ratified an agreement.

Flathead Irrigators are appealing to the State Supreme Court in a legal battle to overturn the state’s water compact with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

A commercial building in Great Falls has been destroyed by fire.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologist Kelly Proffitt says a study has found that wildfires may be good for elk habitat.

The principal of Missoula’s Big Sky High School remembers librarian Christine Fogerty as an energetic, innovative, and enthusiastic educator.

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