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Evening Newscast 06-01-18

Montana Public Radio Evening Newscast
Josh Burnham

Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk plans to retire next March, ending a 44-year career with the National Park Service.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is offering up to $2,000 for information about a grizzly bear shooting death north of Libby.

A home health care worker in Great Falls is charged with threatening a patient with a knife and burning down the house in which they both lived.

The Montana Supreme Court has  agreed to hear the appeal of a Florence pain doctor who was convicted in the overdose deaths of two patients.

A Montana judge dismissed deliberate homicide charges against two men after earlier vacating their convictions.

A Billings construction company has been fined $8,000 for an incident in which a worker was killed after being struck by a concrete beam that broke loose.

Officials say national security concerns require the repairing of a northern Idaho road in important grizzly bear habitat near the Canadian border and lifting travel restrictions on law enforcement.

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