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Volunteers took their love of reading to elementary school students in Billings this week.
Regional News
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The annual Girl Scout cookie sale program provides Scouts with the opportunity to develop essential life skills. -
Park County’s Board of Health meeting on January 22 drew an outsized attendance after a proposed update to the department's quarantine and isolation plan raised covid-19 era concerns. -
The moves under consideration include relocating a residential facility for people with developmental disabilities, renovating the state’s psychiatric hospital, and opening a new unit of the hospital in Helena. -
On January 15th a spacecraft successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center, on it’s way to a 300-mile wide crater on the moon. A small computer aboard the craft was made in Bozeman. -
Snowfall makes the winters in Montana special, but it also comes with some responsibility. Bozeman’s Snow Angels program is helping seniors and those with disabilities fulfill their shoveling obligation with help from neighbors. -
Host Shaylee Ragar discusses tech issues at the Capitol with reporters Austin Amestoy and Zeke Lloyd.
Elections 2024
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Bozeman will be the first city in Montana to ban plastic bags. -
The Armory Hotel in downtown Bozeman was lit up red and blue, but inside was all red for a Republican election night event for Greg Gianforte and Tim Sheehy. -
Political ads flooded mailboxes, TVs and computer monitors in the months and days before polls closed Tuesday night in Montana. Many voters were united in their efforts to ignore them. -
With less than a week before election day, election officials and employees are powering up machines and comparing test numbers for accuracy. -
Montanans will elect 100 representatives and 25 state senators to the Legislature this election. It’s the first time candidates are running in districts redrawn with 2020 census data.
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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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