For NPR News, I'm Kathy Witkowsky in Missoula, Montana.

NPR: Western United States Braces for More Wildfires

Gianforte rejected in-state rival, Missoula, home to the University of Montana.

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Montana has been fighting a methamphetamine epidemic that accounts for 50% of the state's adult incarcerations, says the Montana Meth Project, a Missoula-based nonprofit group founded by billionaire Thomas Siebel.

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MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) A former University of Montana quarterback was acquitted Friday in a rape trial that has played out amid NCAA and federal investigations into how the city and school respond to rape allegations on campus.

NPR: Ex-Montana Quarterback Acquitted Of Rape