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Evening Newscast 07-30-18

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast

Over the weekend, the parties involved in Anaconda’s Superfund cleanup reached an “agreement in principle”, meeting the deadline set by the Environmental Protection Agency just in the nick of time.

Authorities say a Yellowstone River rescue effort for a teenager whose family's boat capsized near Livingston is shifting into a recovery operation.

A judge says NorthWestern Energy is not entitled to collect $8.2 million from customers to cover the cost of an outage at the Colstrip power plant.

A federal inmate being held at the Cascade County regional jail in Great Falls is charged with assaulting a detention officer over the weekend.

The Environmental Protection Agency says an agreement has been reached over the cleanup of a century's worth of smelting waste in Anaconda. The agreement among the EPA, the Atlantic Richfield Co., the state of Montana and Anaconda-Deer Lodge County came Saturday after negotiations last week.

Cascade County fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of a trailer house fire that killed one person.

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