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Evening Newscast 08-09-18

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

The departing Yellowstone National Park superintendent says park service officials told him he wasn't being forced out of his job over a disagreement with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke over bison management.

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes say a grizzly bear cub was euthanized Thursday after its mother and siblings were killed in a vehicle collision on U.S. Highway 93 south of Ronan in late July.

The people evacuated from one house due to the Garden Creek Fire north of Hot Springs Wednesday were allowed to return Thursday.

A woman died in a fire at a trailer house in the town of Hungry Horse.

Recent data shows students from Montana's largest universities are graduating with a little less debt.

Montana wildlife commissioners have endorsed a plan to manage the largest grizzly bear population in the Lower 48 states at current levels as federal officials consider lifting protections on the animals.

A Bigfork man has been convicted of stealing nearly $2 million from investors.

The head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is stepping down after a 16-month tenure in which he proposed broad changes to rules governing protections for thousands of plant and animal species.

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