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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Local organizers are crowdfunding a billboard to extend support to members of the LGBTQ+ community. -
Yellowstone County is doing community outreach in the process of revising its wildfire protection plan, a document often required for government grant applications to fund wildfire prevention projects. -
On today’s episode, we have stories about avalanche conditions, gang activity in Missoula and more. -
On today’s episode, we have stories about an unlikely and furry source of football predictions, efforts to repeal an old state law about dueling and more.
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Box office numbers show movie goers are returning to theaters after the peak pandemic years, but streaming services remain an existential threat. -
Trapping season for furbearing animals is well underway and Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks is asking bobcat hunters and trappers this winter to submit samples of their catches. -
Water beads, batteries and magnets are all potentially fatal hazards for young children unwrapping new toys this holiday season. -
A Crow artist is bringing awareness to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Peoples epidemic as part of a six-month fellowship. -
Western Heritage Center executive director and community historian Kevin Kooistra passed away Sunday at the age of 63. His friends and local leaders say he'll be missed. -
The Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, is modernizing its nutrition standards and what foods it helps families pay for based on the latest national dietary guidance.
