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Evening Newscast 12-17-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
MTPR Evening Newscast

Three Montana women are challenging a rule that excludes religious schools from a new tax credit program designed to provide scholarships for students to attend private schools.

University of Montana President Royce Engstrom says he’s expanding his cabinet, in response to comments from, and dialogue with, people in recent weeks.

Freezing rain could create dangerous driving conditions Friday morning in parts of western Montana.

This week developers in Kalispell learned they’re not getting a source of funding they were hoping would partially finance a major downtown redevelopment project.

A proposal that would allow the U.S. Forest Service to use funds from established natural disaster emergency funds instead of pulling funding from other projects, failed to clear congressional budget negotiations this week.  Critics say that’s because it was linked to a controversial proposal to expedite logging projects.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox has approved the creation of one of the largest nonprofit foundations in the state's history.

Members of Congress from eleven states say they're concerned about postponements to recent oil and gas lease sales. Acreage leased by the BLM has dropped sharply over the past eight years.

A Lake County woman has been arrested in connection to a shooting in Pablo that left another woman seriously injured.

The final two members of a task force to on unexamined sexual-assault evidence were named by Montana’s Attorney General today.

 

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