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Evening Newscast 10-20-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

Montana's seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate dropped slightly in September to 4.1 percent, compared to the revised August estimate of 4.2 percent.

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council is again changing the name of the former Kerr dam, recently purchased from NorthWestern Energy.

A state commission says the Cascade County attorney should not have allowed law students who failed the bar exam to work as deputy county attorneys.

Lake County prosecutors have filed felony charges against a man and woman who are accused of attacking a daycare worker who refused to hand over the man's three children.

Hundreds of people turned out for Missoula city council’s hearing on a proposed gun control ordinance last night.

Attorneys for the state asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit seeking to strike down Montana’s bigamy laws.

Montana's economy has outpaced the national economy for years and the latest unemployment numbers show there's no sign of that trend slowing down.

The state Land Board has approved a settlement in a decades-long dispute over how much to charge for cabin sites on state-owned land.

The Chippewa Cree tribe is considering banishing convicted drug dealers from the Rocky Boy's Reservation.

Montana's Public Service Commission plans to look at how NorthWestern Energy's purchase of hydro-electric damns effects the companies taxes and the rates it charges customers.

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