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Evening Newscast 08-16-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

Montana wildlife officials are expanding their search for further signs of a massive fish kill in the Yellowstone River.

Three weeks after proposing an ordinance that would fine railroad companies more than $261 per car that carries crude oil or coal through downtown Spokane, the City Council has voted to withdraw the measure.

Firefighters are attacking two new wildfires in Yellowstone National Park.

If some Montana lawmakers have their way, shutting down two of the Colstrip power plant's four coal-fired units won't be cheap for the plant's owners.

A state commission won't recommend re-drawing any of the state's judicial districts as a way to ease the Montana court system's growing caseloads.

Butte-Silver Bow County officials have released the names of a husband and wife that died in a murder-suicide.

A woman has died after being struck by a train while walking on the tracks near Bonner last night.

A man whose gratitude for his wife's recovery from a serious illness inspired the creation of the 90-foot statue of the Virgin Mary on the Continental Divide overlooking Butte has died.

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