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Summer is winding down, and Montana children are returning to their classrooms, or for a growing number of families, to the next season of self-paced learning.
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Regional News
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It’s a new school year, but the Billings School District is still trying to solidify its stance on a hot button issue from last year: How to select what books do or do not belong in school libraries.
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Many Montana films and documentaries populate the four days of the annual Montana International Film Festival, a festival for filmmakers by filmmakers, in Billings, September 19-22.
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The Bozeman Police Department is warning all Montanans about a very convincing scam making the rounds via email. The Pegasus sextortion scam is an AI-generated scam where victims receive an extremely personalized email with a PDF attachment.
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Project partners kicked off the Bee Atlas this year to track what bees are where in Montana.
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Communities across south central Montana are bracing themselves for the impact of mass layoffs at the Sibanye-Stillwater mining operations that are set to take effect mid-November.
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The state's largest district debuted three new charter schools this year.
Elections 2024
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Tribal leaders are renewing their calls for an apology from U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, after leaked audio reveals Sheehy making disparaging comments about Native Americans.
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Voters in Gallatin County can expect a long ballot this November. Along with state and federal elections, residents in Bozeman and Gallatin County will elect a dozen local government study commissioners from a crowded field.
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President Joe Biden ended his re-election campaign. Montana politicians and Montanans in Helena shared their reactions.
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Winning candidates from Tuesday night’s primary elections are wasting no time in strategizing for November’s General elections.
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A former Montana state representative was declared the winner of the Democratic primary for Montana's Second Congressional District, late Tuesday night.
National News
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A 'golden age' of rat research may be here. What the often unwanted companions can teach us about usRat and human lives have long intersected, but there's relatively little research about them. Thanks to advances in genomics and paleoarcheology, a lot more study may be on the horizon.
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More pregnant women are being diagnosed with dangerously high blood pressure, which risks the life of the parent and child. Montana is one of the states improving screening and treatment.
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Election officials are raising concerns about the U.S. Postal Service's ability to handle this fall’s expected influx of election mail. But USPS say it’s ready to deliver the country’s ballots.
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Under Turkey's proposal, beef would be required to come from cattle that is at least 16 months old, and be marinated with specific amounts of fat, yogurt or milk, onion, salt, thyme, and pepper.
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Canadian and Italian dignitaries marked the successful recovery of a portrait of Winston Churchill known as "The Roaring Lion," stolen in Canada and recovered in Italy after a two-year search.
NPR Headlines
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- A project aims to show it's possible to harvest food and green energy on the same land
- The FTC has filed a lawsuit over the artificially inflation of the price of insulin
- How Germany's far-right party is using AI-generated videos in its campaigns
- A broken sidewalk became a goldfish pond — and help heal divisions between neighbors
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