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.

A recent KFF Health-AP Poll suggests middling - and growing - dissatisfaction among rural voters on most economic policies, but support still remains higher than national averages.

The plaintiffs are asking a judge to stop federal authorities from continuing to take people suspected of being in the country illegally into custody without first getting a warrant.

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.

Endgame and Avatar have been jockeying for the title for years now.

The campaign is led in part by India's "Cockroach" youth movement, which previously forced the education minister to resign.

State media cited investigators who said the network recruited people to ride motorcycles through neighborhoods at night, trapping up to 10 cats a night.

While Trump pushes to get his name on the Kennedy Center and other public sites, history shows that sitting presidents have almost always avoided putting their brands on government assets.