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Evening Newscast 06-28-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

After Montana’s primary election on June 7th, candidates in Montana’s gubernatorial race are building up their bank accounts to fund the contest in November.

Gov. Steve Bullock has more than $1.4 million to spend in his re-election campaign, while his Republican challenger, Greg Gianforte, has about $133,000 left after spending heavily in the first months of the governor's race.

The Republican Governors Association has agreed to register as a political committee in Montana after spending more than $450,000 prior to the state's June 7th primary. 

The Observation Point Fire that was first reported Friday about ten miles south of Hamilton is now covering over 300 acres,

U.S. Forest Service officials are proposing a logging and prescribed burning project across more than nine square miles just west of Yellowstone National Park.   

A woman who was beaten, choked and set on fire on Montana's Crow Indian Reservation, died early this morning.

A Massachusetts man is charged with negligent homicide in the 2015 death of a Montana teenager. 

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