Evening Newscast 07-31-15

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MTPR Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On tonight's evening newscast: It’s been an active day on the fire burning on the east side of Glacier National Park. There’s been significant smoke in the area this afternoon. Fire information officer Shauna Hartman explains why.

A court official says the 18-year-old man accused of shooting a family who stopped to help him on a roadside on the Crow reservation Wednesday was released from a Wyoming jail two weeks earlier.

The Helena National Forest is trying to figure out who vandalized pictographs dating back from hundreds to thousands of years ago in the forest’s Hellgate Canyon.

Officials with Cloud Peak Energy, which mines coal in Montana, say they are optimistic, despite a downturn in the coal industry and a $53 million second-quarter loss.

The nation's only platinum and palladium mine is reporting a $27.5 million loss for the second quarter of 2015.

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