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Evening Newscast 11-22-16

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Evening News

Missoula employees will now be able to take six weeks of paid maternity leave.

A state lawmaker who was found to have accepted illegal corporate campaign contributions has appealed his $68,000 fine to the Montana Supreme Court.

A Republican state lawmaker has filed a wrongful discharge lawsuit alleging his refusal to support certain bills during the 2015 Legislature got him fired from a sales job he'd held for more than 15 years.

A 92-year-old man casting one of Montana's electoral votes has been criticized for his comments about gay people.

Montana’s Medicaid expansion program got a progress report Tuesday, Nov. 22, from an oversight committee of lawmakers and health care professionals.

Federal homeland security officials say Montana residents won't be allowed to use their driver's licenses to access military bases, power plants and federal facilities starting Jan. 30.

Federal officials are proposing one of the largest ever projects to remove juniper trees to protect habitat for imperiled sage grouse.

A medical marijuana advocacy group is trying to undo a  mistake in a voter-approved medical marijuana ballot initiative that delays dispensaries from reopening for eight months.

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