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Evening Newscast 05-15-17

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Evening Newscast

About $12 million is fueling the special election between Democrat Rob Quist and Republican Greg Gianforte, according to latest campaign finance disclosures.

Helena Regional Airport in Montana will soon be using a full-body scanner for the first time since March 2013.

The U.S. Supreme Court today turned away challenges to open primaries in Hawaii and Montana. Montana Commissioner of Political Practices Jonathan Motl is leaving office after four years in which he and his staff cleared a backlog of campaign complaints, rewrote campaign finance rules and brought court cases against nine Republican primary candidates.

TransCanada Corp. is reassessing whether oil producers in North Dakota and Montana are still interested in shipping crude through its long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline now that they have other new options to ship their product, including the Dakota Access pipeline.

Republican U.S. House candidate Greg Gianforte picked up the endorsements of three of Montana’s largest newspapers over the weekend.
 

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