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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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Montana’s Attorney General asks the state Supreme Court to take over a case about who can sign issue ballot petitions, a fishing closure is in effect on a stretch of the Madison River in southwest Montana and RiverStone Health in Billings is offering free lead testing for children. Hear about that and more on today's Worm.
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Wildlife managers are publishing the results of a multi-year study of pronghorn antelope in Montana. That research is helping ranchers in Central Montana figure out how to better share the land with pronghorn.
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The highest-ranking administrator of the Indian Health Service stopped by to see how one Urban Indian organization is using federal dollars to improve access to healthcare in Billings.
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Decisions at the U.S. Supreme Court level could impact more than 1,000 people implicated in participating in the January 6 riots in the United States Capitol.
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Response to the Bo fire north of Billings kicked off over the weekend and concluded Tuesday with 100 percent containment.
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A feedlot in south central Montana is trying out a new system to produce more environmentally-friendly beef and transform piles of manure into fertilizer and gas.
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Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks is limiting available hunting licenses for antlerless mule deer to support population numbers in Eastern Montana, where the 10-year decline of mule deer is in the double digits.
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Havre residents no longer need to boil their water, and state regulators say they want to help keep it that way.
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Managers say this use of artificial intelligence is supplementing staff, not replacing them
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Workers will target any visible asphalt downstream of last year's Montana Rail Link derailment in Stillwater County.