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Bozeman has hosted a fire and police citizens academy for years, but this fall the city is hosting its first civic academy. This is the first program in the state that takes citizens under the hood of their local government.
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Regional News
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It’s Bachtoberfest in Billings! YPR’s Karl Lengel has the story.
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Montana State University Billings Foundation & Alumni has announced the recipients of its 2026 Outstanding Alumni Awards.
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A recent KFF Health-AP Poll suggests middling - and growing - dissatisfaction among rural voters on most economic policies, but support still remains higher than national averages.
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Fourteen black bears were killed last week following an investigation at a Bozeman-area home. Game wardens say the bears had stopped relying on natural foods and were completely unafraid of humans.
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The independent and Democratic candidates for Senate went head-to-head on campaign funding, tax reform and other policy priorities on Sunday. Democrat Alani Bankhead and independent Seth Bodnar spoke to voters, answering questions from the hosting organization Indivisible Missoula and the crowd.
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"Unprecedented." That's the word wildlife managers keep using to describe bear conflicts in Red Lodge. "This year has really been kind of off the charts in terms of conflicts," says Chrissy Webb, a spokesperson with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.
National News
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Lambert started out as a scrappy country singer with a me-against-the-world attitude. How did she end up making lush disco songs and writing one of the biggest pop hits of the year?
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Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.
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HBO's War is intended to be an anthology series about two dueling London law firms. The first season stars Dominic West and Sienna Miller as a high-profile couple in the midst of a very nasty divorce.
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The famed Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States.
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The Supreme Court term opens on Monday with big test cases on religion, guns and climate change. Plus, the emergency docket keeps popping.
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