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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September 1 marks the first day of meteorological fall for the National Weather Service, which is looking back at the summer season and finding the hottest average temperatures in over 100 years of data collection. -
Laurel residents are challenging the state’s plan to hook into city water at a psychiatric facility for inmates proposed just outside their community. -
Hundreds of workers at the country’s primary platinum and palladium mine are on strike as of Thursday morning. -
Ranchers say they’re already seeing impacts from the plan to increase foreign imports of beef at discounted rates. -
Montana legislators are considering draft legislation to prohibit all types of kratom, a plant with opioid-like effects. -
Yellowstone County public health says its vaccine recommendations remain the same despite a recent presidential order. -
Montana Rescue Mission staff gave lawmakers a tour through its campus in Billings Tuesday to show off its ongoing expansion efforts. -
Local county health officials say that a schedule I listing of 7OH still leaves a number of other, related products unchecked and commercially available. -
Montana’s wildlife managers are proposing to cut wolf hunt quotas by half based on recent population estimates. -
Montana Public Service Commissioner Brad Molnar and his lawyer are asking a district court to prevent the governor from suspending him and appointing a replacement in his absence.
