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Evening Newscast 10-23-18

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham
Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast

A tobacco company has dumped nearly $5 million more into the campaign to defeat a Montana ballot initiative in the final weeks before the Nov. 6 election.

A federal program for tribes to access national crime information databases is expanding.

The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which has spent nearly $5 million to influence the outcome of Montana U.S. Senate race, stumped on behalf of Matt Rosendale in Montana Tuesday during a get-out-the vote tour. 

The wife of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer has accused him of physically, verbally and emotionally abusing her in divorce papers filed in Flathead County.

The new superintendent of Yellowstone National Park says he won't consider capping the number of visitors to the nation's first national park, which is on pace to attract more than 4 million visitors for the fourth consecutive year.

An election official is warning that a Republican mailer sent to Montana households contains bad information about the deadline for absentee ballots to arrive at county election offices.

U.S. officials are delaying oil and gas lease sales on almost 90 square miles in Montana and North Dakota in response to a court ruling that faulted the Trump administration's attempts to limit public comment on the sales.

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