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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![Dan Brooks [far right] with the Billings Chamber of Commerce plays a video in support of the jail bond and levy at the beginning of a jail tour as part of the Chamber's campaign.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ba01a13/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2246+0+118/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F91%2F6a%2F186a975b46a1a5948b11d48d8ed2%2Fdan-brooks.jpg)
A multimillion dollar bond and levy to expand the Yellowstone County Detention Facility failed at the polls this election season. Organizers say the economy may be why. -
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Republican Kurt Alme has claimed the race to represent Montana in the U.S. Senate. -
The Trump Administration announced the Harvest Fuel Relief program in the middle of election season, but farmers will have to wait until November to learn more. -
An annual poll of Montanans’ thoughts on political issues and leadership shows deepening government dissatisfaction. -
County leadership say they’re optimistic about their pitch to voters to expand the overcrowded Yellowstone County Detention Facility and fund its operation, despite an election season where a lot of people are tightening their purse strings. -
It’s been more than thirty years since Montanans elected a non-GOP candidate to the U.S. House of Representatives, and this year a Democrat, an Independent and a Libertarian are betting on a change. -
No Kings rallies brought people out across Montana in the weeks before the midterm elections with a message: get out and vote. -
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.
![Dan Brooks [far right] with the Billings Chamber of Commerce plays a video in support of the jail bond and levy at the beginning of a jail tour as part of the Chamber's campaign.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/dddfb16/2147483647/strip/true/crop/4032x2246+0+118/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F91%2F6a%2F186a975b46a1a5948b11d48d8ed2%2Fdan-brooks.jpg)
