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Victoria Traxler
A Montana district court ruled in favor of an environmental group that challenged the state's approval of new septic systems in the Gallatin Valley. The group argued that the state failed to assess cumulative impacts from the septic systems and how they may harm the river.
Regional News
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Mobile crisis teams are struggling. These are the teams of mental health professionals that respond to behavioral health calls instead of police. Those programs don't have reliable funding, and the teams that remain say they need help. -
A software transition gone awry left many homeowners in Billings with sticker shock when they got a look at their city water bill in 2024. More than a year later, and the city could shut off service to hundreds of homes with unpaid bills. -
YPR's Karl Lengel hears from observational comic Paula Poundstone, who is in Bozeman and Billings this weekend. -
Bobcat Nation was cheering loud and long Monday night after a much tighter game than prognosticators anticipated. -
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.
National News
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As protests grow over violent ICE enforcement actions in Minneapolis, the president said he could invoke a centuries-old law that would give him sweeping powers to deploy the military in U.S. cities. -
Starlink is illegal in Iran, but people are still using the satellite internet service to get around the government's internet shutdown. -
The nationwide protests challenging Iran's theocracy appear increasingly smothered a week after authorities shut the country off from the world and escalated a bloody crackdown. -
Part memoir and part fiction, Barnes' hybrid novel publishes the day after his 80th birthday. He's been living with a rare form of blood cancer for six years. -
For 24 hours, it was unclear which mental health and addiction programs would survive and who would still have jobs when the dust settled.
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