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Evening Newscast: Tuesday, July 11

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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Bureau of Land Management law enforcement officers are investigating the July fire burning south of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation as a suspected human-caused fire.

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Glacier National Park officials, under pressure from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, have loosened boating restrictions enacted when invasive mussels were found in Montana reservoir about 100 miles from the park.

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — A lawsuit over the boundaries of the Wind River Reservation in central Wyoming is attracting some high-profile attorneys.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana's chief political watchdog says the state Republican Party has failed to comply with an earlier ruling requiring it to provide better detail about electioneering activities in last fall's legislative elections.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Firefighters have gained 10 percent containment on a fire burning in the Medicine Bow National Forest in southeast Wyoming.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Next year's rate hikes proposed by the three health insurance companies in Montana that offer individual plans through the Affordable Care Act show just how uncertain they are about the federal law's future.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The PacifiCorp coal-fired power plant in southwest Wyoming will remain fully operational for at least another year.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The U.S. Inspector General's office says it found no evidence of theft of federal funds on Wyoming's Wind River Indian Reservation.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Chairwoman of the Cheyenne Frontier Days Indians Committee and head of the Recognize, Retain and Recruit Subcommittee Andrea Allen says the majority of Cheyenne Frontier Days' 2,900 volunteers are older than 40.

WORLAND, Wyo. (AP) — If you ever wondered what a burning pile of sulfur looks like, the answer is like a UFO crash site or maybe a scene on another planet.

WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) — Glacier National Park saw a record of nearly 621,000 visitors in June, an increase of 28 percent over last year's record for the same month.