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Volunteers took their love of reading to elementary school students in Billings this week.
Regional News
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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We are gathering information from all statewide candidates as a resource for the 2024 Primary Elections. Responses were limited to 200 words per question. Political attacks may have been removed, but otherwise, the responses are published unedited.
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We are gathering information from all statewide candidates as a resource for the 2024 Primary Elections. Responses were limited to 200 words per question. Political attacks may have been removed, but otherwise, the responses are published unedited.
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We are gathering information from all statewide candidates as a resource for the 2024 Primary Elections. Responses were limited to 200 words per question. Political attacks may have been removed, but otherwise, the responses are published unedited.
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From program cuts to construction costs, school superintendents take account of their losses after school elections
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The state Senate endorsed previously stalled legislation that would provide for a top-two primary in the 2024 race for the U.S. Senate — an “experiment,” sponsor Sen. Greg Hertz testified. Critics decry a partisan power grab and silencing of Libertarians.
National News
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Hamas, the militant group the U.S. has labeled as terrorists, says it's willing to release the one living American hostage and bodies of four others it's held in Gaza since the 2023 attacks in Israel.
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Dorothy Thompson saw the rise of Nazi Germany as a foreign correspondent in Berlin. A new series from Radio Diaries tells the story of Thompson's career as a radio broadcaster.
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Game studios have cranked out surprising hits ranging from cooperative platformers to historical epics. NPR staff and contributors round up the latest from a promising 2025.
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In a recent appearance on Fox News, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ate French fries cooked in beef tallow and mused that 'food is medicine.' Nutrition scientists are scratching their heads.
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The 68-team fields for the men's and women's NCAA basketball tournaments will be unveiled Sunday night, and the games begin next week.
NPR Headlines
- Over 50 universities are under investigation as part of Trump's anti-DEI crackdown
- USPS head agrees to let DOGE find 'efficiencies' — with limits to employee data access
- NASA and SpaceX make second attempt this week to launch astronauts
- A U.S. influencer outrages Australians by snatching a baby wombat from its mom
- How the pandemic changed the world of disease control for worse -- and for better
- Vice President Vance gets booed at the Kennedy Center
- FTC asks to delay Amazon trial over 'dire' resources, then quickly backtracks
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