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Evening Newscast 05-04-15

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

On this edition of the Montana Evening Newscast, the federal government's point man on grizzly bears says the Yellowstone ecosystem's grizzly population should be removed from the endangered species list.

The unclaimed remains of six Montana veterans will be interred next month at the state veterans’ cemetery, after being found in storage at a crematory in Great Falls.

A Louisiana company is asking a judge to resolve its lawsuit challenging the government's suspension of an oil and gas lease near Montana's Glacier National Park so the company can begin drilling this summer.

Montana State University-Northern's interim chancellor is being recommended to fill the job on a permanent basis.

Firefighters from multiple agencies have contained wildfires about 15 miles northwest of Helena.

An expensive certification process is slimming down the list of qualified candidates to fill western Montana's many trucking jobs.

A Billings man who crashed a car into a house after huffing canned air has been given an eight-year suspended sentence.

A 20-year-old Malta man was killed in a weekend crash on U.S. Highway 191 near Malta.
 

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