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Evening Newscast 09-30-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

The Land and Water Conservation Fund was not included in a funding bill that prevented a government shutdown today.

The trial is under way for a man charged with striking and killing a deputy during a high-speed pursuit.

A hiker in Glacier National Park was grabbed and shaken by a grizzly bear yesterday.

The next stage in a federal grant program aimed at improving Montana’s lowest performing schools took another step yesterday.

Congress has denied a measure that would’ve blocked new land-use plans meant to protect the greater sage grouse.

Missoula’s Neptune Aviation has won the largest of three contracts to supply next-generation air tankers to the U-S Forest Service to fight fires.

Proposed port facilities and a pipeline for shipping Rocky Mountain natural gas to Asia via the Oregon Coast have won final environmental approval from federal regulators.

U.S Senator Steve Daines is co-sponsoring legislation to secure permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

Wildfire smoke still hangs in the air around the northwestern part of the state.

Montana's economic development officials are trying to attract big computer data centers to the state.

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