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Evening Newscast 05-03-19

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

Montana has become the first state in 2019 to authorize sports betting.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has vetoed two more bills passed by the Legislature, including one he says would give the Child and Family ombudsman too much control over the administration of the child welfare agency.

Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf has returned to his Montana hometown to deliver a speech about dealing with mental health and substance abuse. 

The Blackfeet Nation says it will ask a federal court on Monday to continue a fight to protect the Badger Two Medicine area, after the US Interior Department reversed course on oil leases in there.

Two traveling nurses and a Montana State Prison inmate are charged with conspiring to bring methamphetamine, prescription drugs and a cellphone into the facility last summer.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock has signed a bill calling for better coordination in the search for missing people and another to help reach agreements to allow access to public lands surrounded by private property.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is investigating after a man's body was found in the Tongue River near Ashland, on the eastern edge of the Crow Indian Reservation.

An executive for the company proposing the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada's oil sands into the U.S. says it has missed the 2019 construction season due to court delays.

The Flathead Lake Biological Station added a new monitoring site in Polson Bay last month that could help prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species and generate valuable information about the ecosystem.

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