Featured Stories
Volunteers took their love of reading to elementary school students in Billings this week.
Regional News
-
Yellowstone County is doing community outreach in the process of revising its wildfire protection plan, a document often required for government grant applications to fund wildfire prevention projects.
-
In this episode, we talk through an important public access tool from Montana Free Press. Then we’ll take a look at legislation to restrict abortion access.
-
As the Legislature nears the halfway point of the general session, bills are starting to drop like flies. The carnage is exposing some fault lines between freshman and veteran lawmakers over both the content of the bills, and the lawmaking process itself.
-
Recent snowfall has snowmobilers and backcountry skiers celebrating the recreational opportunities. With recreation comes risk and in southwest Montana the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center works non-stop assessing that risk.
-
As the population rises in Bozeman, so does tension surrounding city politics. Often opinions on controversial topics are shared with commissioners during public comment at meetings that can last up to six hours. Now the city is adding a conversational approach to public engagement.
-
The resort community of Big Sky is exploring what it would mean to officially incorporate as a town, along side other possible governance changes.
Elections 2024
-
Voters in Gallatin County can expect a long ballot this November. Along with state and federal elections, residents in Bozeman and Gallatin County will elect a dozen local government study commissioners from a crowded field.
-
President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign. Montana politicians and Montanans in Helena shared their reactions.
-
Winning candidates from Tuesday night’s primary elections are wasting no time in strategizing for November’s General elections.
-
A former Montana state representative was declared the winner of the Democratic primary for Montana's Second Congressional District, late Tuesday night.
-
Out of a crowded primary field, Republican Troy Downing secured his spot in the November General Election.
National News
-
President Trump has upended global markets by imposing tariffs on imports from several of America's top trading partners. Here's what to know.
-
Police in Waterbury, Conn., allege the man's stepmother locked him in his room with limited food and water for over 20 years, until he started a fire using hand sanitizer, printer paper and a lighter.
-
The president is planning to give remarks on "restoring law and order," according to the White House. Trump has vowed to end "weaponization" of the DOJ after having been investigated himself.
-
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he plans to vote for a Republican bill to fund the government through September, paving the way for other Democrats to join him.
-
Thousands of probationary federal employees fired by the Trump administration must be offered job reinstatement, a judge in San Francisco has ruled, because they were terminated unlawfully.
NPR Headlines
- Mexicans searching for missing relatives uncover possible mass killing site
- The Asian elephant population in Cambodia is more robust than previously thought
- John Feinstein, sports writer and author of 'A Season on the Brink,' dies at 69
- Some acne treatments from brands like Walgreens, La Roche-Posay voluntarily recalled
- 'Deep sense of outrage and betrayal': House Democrats react to Schumer announcement
- A 2nd judge orders thousands of fired federal employees temporarily reinstated
- Democratic Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva of Arizona dies at 77
New Episode Monday, March 17th at 6:30 PM