Stories

• Magazine Names Missoula A Great Place To Retire

  Where to Retire magazine, the only magazine geared to helping people with retirement relocation decisions, features eight spirited college towns with super deals. The article is the fifth installment in the magazine’s yearlong series called “Ready for the Rebound,” spotlighting destinations that are great for retirees and offer unusually good buys in housing.

• Grizzly Bear Euthanized After Triple Mauling

  Wildlife officials say a grizzly bear has been euthanized after tests determined it was responsible for a triple mauling in a Montana campground.

• UM Administrators say Lesson Learned from E-mail Scare

  University of Montana administrators learned some lessons from last week's email threat. Law enforcement swarmed campus only to determine it was a hoax. UM staff remained very tight lipped about the incident until Friday.

• Whitefish Grizzly Relocated

  Federal and state wildlife officials have moved a second grizzly bear from the Whitefish Mountain Range to help bolster the population of grizzly bears living in the Cabinet Mountains. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Wayne Kasworm of Libby says the four-year-old, 230-pound female bear was captured last Saturday about 25 miles north of Whitefish, fitted with a GPS collar and relocated in the south end of the Cabinet Mountain Range the next day.

• Night Of The Grizzlies Remembered

  The Yellowstone bear attack brings back memories of 1967, when grizzlies killed two young girls at Glacier National Park. It became known as the Night of the Grizzlies", and it was re-told in a novel and a movie.