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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The Yellowstone County Health Needs Assessment helps identify the biggest health priorities for the county and guide next steps. -
Tribal leadership says they were unaware of specific revisions made to draft exhibits at the visitor center under construction at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. -
The U.S. Congress recently renewed federal dollars for a national energy efficiency program that Montanans in Bozeman and beyond use to gauge energy savings. -
Famed paleontologist and former Montana State University professor Jack Horner, who consulted on the Jurassic Park movies, spent several days at the ranch of late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. -
The North Plains Connector once completed will link regional electric grids with hundreds of miles of new transmission lines. -
Travelers without a REAL ID or equivalent identification like a passport will be able to prepay for verification starting February 1. -
Yellowstone County’s food authority is cracking down on products derived from kratom, a Southeast Asian plant with psychoactive chemicals they say can be deadly in concentrated doses. Enforcement began Jan. 1 after months of notice, and tea houses continue to serve kratom drinks. -
Adams Publishing Group newspapers in southcentral Montana collaborated on the “Digging Deep” series, tracking over 600 layoffs at the Sibanye-Stillwater’s platinum and palladium mine in 2024. -
Few insects remain active in the freezing temperatures of the northern hemisphere, but one fly continues its daily life in Montana’s backcountry. Researchers want to know how. -
The Chippewa Cree Tribe and Indigenous voters who sued over how Chouteau County elects commissioners say they'll have a better chance at representation going forward.
