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Evening Newscast 10-28-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

An Obama administration official says allowing Congress to decide whether Native American tribes deserve federal recognition would add more delays to what was long a broken system.

Fisheries officials say they are concerned that walleyes illegally introduced into Swan Lake could become an established population, after catching some of the invasive species in the lake recently.

About a dozen Montanans were in Spokane Wednesday to talk to Washington state lawmakers about legislation that would impact the Colstrip coal-fired power plant southeast of Billings.

A group of Montana parents says lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency’s so-called “Clean Power Plan” are shortsighted and dangerous.

The Public Service Commission is asking a court order to affirm that the commission has jurisdiction over a Canadian company's attempt to buy Missoula's Mountain Water Co.

Flathead County Sheriff Chuck Curry says he will ask county leaders to let him close the juvenile detention center, allowing him to use the beds for a growing adult jail population.

The utility company in Washington that owns a big stake of the Colstrip coal-fired electricity plant in Montana is facing numerous challenges to keep it open.

The tribal corporation that took ownership of Kerr Dam just over a month ago hosted an open house explaining the change in ownership.

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