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Evening Newscast 10-23-17

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Evening Newscast

A federal appeals court says the campaign contribution limits Montana voters enacted in 1994 are constitutional.

Montana wildlife managers are bolstering their efforts to look for chronic wasting disease this fall.

Officials in western Montana are warning hikers to use care after a mountain lion was spotted. Lewis and Clark County Sheriff Leo Dutton says the mountain lion was seen on the south side of Mount Helena.

The Montana Department of Environmental Quality is adding an additional public scoping meeting for the proposed Black Butte copper mine outside White Sulpher Springs. That brings the number of scheduled meetings to four.

Environmentalists have asked Montana regulators to suspend permits for two silver mines citing concerns over the track record of the president of the company behind the proposals.

Autopsies were completed today on twin brothers from southeastern Montana who died last week in an apparent murder-suicide.

Montana’s wildfire season has stirred up another round of bickering over a host of issues including fire and forest management and construction in the wildland urban interface. A public forum Tuesday evening will try to cut through the noise.

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