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Morning Newscast 10-23-15

MTPR Morning Newscast
Josh Burnham

Nineteen retired U­S Forest Service leaders sent a letter to the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture urging the cancelation of the 18 remaining leases.

The state health department is trying to determine the best way to spend a $250,000 appropriation to help prevent suicide among Native American youth.

A coroner's jury has determined that police were justified when they shot and killed an armed burglary suspect outside a Billings hospital in January.

Gov. Steve Bullock has appointed a Kalispell attorney to replace a Flathead County district judge who retired in August.

Wildlife officials have suspended the search for a black bear that attacked an 85-­year-­old woman near Kalispell.

Government investigators squarely blame the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for a 3 million gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine, saying a cleanup crew rushed its work and failed to consider the complex engineering involved, triggering the very blowout it hoped to avoid.

The Obama Administration’s signature climate change rule will be published in the federal register today.

Faculty members at Montana State University have voted down a proposal to launch a hospitality management degree, effectively killing the program.

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