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Evening Newscast 12-09-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Evening News

Six of Governor Steve Bullock's cabinet members will be leaving the administration before the Democratic governor's second term begins next month. 

Stillwater Mining Company officials say the company will be acquired by South Africa's Sibanye Gold Limited for $2.2 billion.

Wildlife officials are urging hunters who killed snow geese in the Butte and Dillon areas to wait to eat the meat, after thousands of geese landed in the Berkeley Pit in Butte during a snowstorm on November 28. 

A month after his reelection, Governor Steve Bullock today announced new people will be in nearly half of his appointed Cabinet Directors positions in his second term.

Bob Bergren, a former Montana state House speaker who's charged with threatening a tenant with a shotgun, is eligible for a public defender.

A new survey shows that more Montanans are turning to the Internet for news than any other source.

A Montana conservation group says it expects a special environmental protection agreement it signed with Stillwater Mining to remain in effect after the sale of the company, which was finalized today.

Forty-five acres of trees killed by a major wildfire last summer are slated for harvest.

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