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Morning Newscast 06-29-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

On today's morning newscast: firefighters are working to suppress a 30-acre wildfire in northern Montana. Officials say the fire started Saturday in the Flathead National Forest near Glacier National Park at a gravel pit west of the North Fork of the Flathead River.

A Helena judge has rejected environmental groups' claims that Gov. Steve Bullock violated open-meetings laws before nominating 5.1 million acres of forest land for priority management.

New state data shows that vaccination rates at one in eight elementary schools in Montana are too low to ensure immunity from outbreaks of measles or whooping cough.

Montana autopsies will have to be done in other states in the coming weeks because the state's only two forensic medical examiners qualified to assist county coroners are leaving.

Montana counties will receive nearly $27 million to compensate for non-taxable federal lands within their boundaries.

The spinoff of the company that runs Montana's largest power plant is raising questions about how long the plant can keep going, as pollution control costs rise and coal's share of the electricity market crumbles.

The 64-year-old man who died in a fire at his Butte home has been identified as Harold Lobb.

The Flathead National Forest was calling in more firefighters to help battle the Glacier Rim Fire as it threatened to burn into Glacier National Park.

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