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Bozeman has hosted a fire and police citizens academy for years, but this fall the city is hosting its first civic academy. This is the first program in the state that takes citizens under the hood of their local government.

Elections have consistently broken spending records in the state in recent years, largely due to corporate money. A ballot measure known as the Montana Plan aims to eliminate that kind of spending in Montana, sidestepping a controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling. That would make the state a national legal test case.

It’s Bachtoberfest in Billings! YPR’s Karl Lengel has the story.

Montana State University Billings Foundation & Alumni has announced the recipients of its 2026 Outstanding Alumni Awards.

Saint won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edie, a Catholic schoolgirl whose longshoreman brother is murdered. She went on to star in Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest.

Cornell University names Sally Yates, former acting U.S. attorney general and career federal prosecutor, to lead an independent review into how the school handled a former student's rape allegations.

More than a quarter of a million people rallied nationwide to support school students demanding more education funding, according to government figures, with thousands of arrests.

Hill co-starred in HBO's Somebody Somewhere and has hosted drag king shows and queer cabarets. "This is my mantra … if you don't see yourself represented, go out and represent yourself," he says.

Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood.