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Headlines: Mercury exposure in Libby, CFalls restricts e-bikes, and workforce housing in Kalispell

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Join Daily Inter Lake reporter Taylor Inman as she goes over the week’s biggest headlines for Northwest Montana.

We’ll learn what the Environmental Protection Agency did in response to a mercury contamination in Libby, which left three families affected, more details about a new law in Columbia Falls restricting e-bikes and e-motorcycles, what happened after a car crashed into Bunker’s restaurant in Polson, and a new $8.3 million workforce housing development coming along the Parkline Trail in Kalispell.


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Three Libby families affected by exposure to mercury

Law would restrict e-bikes, e-motorcycles in Columbia Falls

Car crashes into Bunker's restaurant

Developer lands $8.3M for new workforce housing complex along Parkline Trail


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