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Evening Newscast 12-08-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Evening News

A judge says he will not open to the public the long-running secret negotiations on the cleanup of the nation's largest Superfund site.

Montana authorities want to put convicted murderer Barry Beach back in prison after he was granted clemency by the governor last year.

The U.S. House has approved a water rights settlement with the Blackfeet tribe as part of a broader bill addressing water projects across the nation.

The state Department of Transportation is delaying requests for bids on nearly $145 million in road construction projects until May, due to a budget shortfall that could put the funding for the projects in jeopardy.

The University of Montana will host a public forum about who will be the next UM president.

An effort by democratic leadership to get some so-called  ‘silver bullet’ bills this legislative session, like they had in 2015,  was denied by Republicans this week in a rules committee.

Riverstone Holdings LLC has completed its 1.8 billion dollar purchase of Talen Energy Corporation, the Pennsylvania company that is the operator and co-owner of the Colstrip power plant.

A 22-year-old Evergreen woman has been sentenced to five years in custody for her role in the death of her two-year-old son.

North Dakota regulators say winter weather is affecting cleanup of a, quote, "significant" pipeline break that leaked crude oil into a tributary of the Little Missouri River.

The company that co-owns and operates the Colstrip power plant has been sold. The sale of Talen Energy to Riverstone Holdings for 1.8 billion dollars was completed Tuesday.

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