Kayla Desroches
ReporterKayla Desroches reports for Yellowstone Public Radio in Billings. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and stayed in the city for college, where she hosted a radio show that featured serialized dramas like the Shadow and Suspense. In her pathway to full employment, she interned at WNYC in New York City and KTOO in Juneau, Alaska. She then spent a few years on the island of Kodiak, Alaska, where she transitioned from reporter to news director before moving to Montana.
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Park County commissioners say a proposed gravel mine would reduce transportation time, emissions and traffic in busier areas. Locals are pushing back back. -
Advocacy groups are pooling resources and reaching out to Tribes now in an effort to help address census undercounts on reservations. -
The 2026 Conservation in the West poll provides a snapshot of views about outdoor access in eight western western states. -
Public health services for the homeless are now available from one centralized location in Billings, a shelter on the city’s south side. -
The U.S. government plans to restrict Russian imports of palladium after complaints of unfair pricing from the United States’ only producer of platinum and palladium, based in Montana. -
The Yellowstone County Health Needs Assessment helps identify the biggest health priorities for the county and guide next steps. -
Tribal leadership says they were unaware of specific revisions made to draft exhibits at the visitor center under construction at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. -
The U.S. Congress recently renewed federal dollars for a national energy efficiency program that Montanans in Bozeman and beyond use to gauge energy savings. -
Famed paleontologist and former Montana State University professor Jack Horner, who consulted on the Jurassic Park movies, spent several days at the ranch of late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. -
The North Plains Connector once completed will link regional electric grids with hundreds of miles of new transmission lines.
