Several key races and questions are before voters in Montana and Wyoming.

Young families are getting help finding their footing in Montana, as communities work together to offer support.

Two years ago Bozeman city residents voted to study their local form of government. Five members were elected to Bozeman local government review study commission. They have been meeting regularly, and are now putting some suggested changes in front of voters.

Absentee voters urged to turn in their ballot to county election office or at the drive up ballot drop off at MetraPark

Americans are projected to spend billions on Halloween this year and while owners shell out big bucks to dress their pets as goblins, hot dogs and pumpkins to go trick-or-treating with kids, many resist out of fear.

The American singer-songwriter and poet visited with the American pope at the Vatican during a break between concert dates in Italy. The Vatican said the encounter was brief.

Wong was sentenced for his second conviction under a Beijing-imposed national security law, in a case that critics say reflects the crackdown on the city's once-thriving pro-democracy movement.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Anna Greenberg, a Democratic pollster, about what polls captured (and underestimated) after Democrats performed stronger than expected in midterm elections.

Voters in dozens of states considered 146 statewide ballot measures this midterm cycle, on topics spanning LGBTQ rights, wealth taxes, abortion, redistricting, guns and more.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with former congressman and Obama advisor Rahm Emanuel about what Democrats' strategy should be, now that they'll soon control both houses of Congress.