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1 week ago | 
kbzk.com | Hevenn Vanh
BELGRADE — After Tuesday's School and Special Districts Election, school districts whose mill levy failed are having to take another look at their budgets for the next year. "It all helps you get to what the state believes is the right amount of funding, the 100% of funding, that your community needs to educate their kids," says Dede Semerad, Superintendent for the Belgrade School District.
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1 week ago | 
kbzk.com | Hevenn Vanh
BOZEMAN — May 6 is the last day to turn in your ballots for the Gallatin County School and Special Districts election. These elections have a historically low voter turnout, but they can have a big impact on local schools and public safety resources.
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1 week ago | 
ktvq.com | Hevenn Vanh
WEST YELLOWSTONE — Yellowstone is a place that’s known for its wildlife, and it’s highlighted at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone where visitors will soon have the opportunity to check out a brand-new exhibit. "A lot of visitors come here as part of their visit to the park, and what we want to do is showcase animals, especially predators like bears and wolves, that are native to this ecosystem, to the landscape, and important to the landscape," says Tut Fuentevilla.
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1 week ago | 
kbzk.com | Hevenn Vanh
WEST YELLOWSTONE — Yellowstone is a place that’s known for its wildlife, and it’s highlighted at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone—where visitors will soon have the opportunity to check out a brand-new exhibit. "A lot of visitors come here as part of their visit to the park, and what we want to do is showcase animals, especially predators like bears and wolves, that are native to this ecosystem, to the landscape, and important to the landscape," says Tut Fuentevilla.
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2 weeks ago | 
kbzk.com | Hevenn Vanh
BOZEMAN — After being given a terminal cancer diagnosis, a Texas man is traveling to all 50 states in hopes of using his remaining time to serve others. "When I got the news, I went home, and I reflected for a few days, and it was a shock," says Doug Ruch.
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2 weeks ago | 
kbzk.com | Hevenn Vanh
BOZEMAN — In honor of Arbor Day, volunteers gathered at Oak Springs Park in Bozeman to help the City plant trees. "I, Terry Cunningham, Mayor by the City of Bozeman, do hereby proclaim Friday April 25th as Arbor Day in the City of Bozeman and encourage all citizens to celebrate Arbor Day and support efforts to protect our trees and woodlands," said Mayor Cunningham during the Arbor Day proclamation.
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3 weeks ago | 
kbzk.com | Hevenn Vanh
BOZEMAN — Gallatin County's DUI Task Force held an award ceremony Wednesday evening to recognize the efforts of local law enforcement in catching and preventing drunk driving. The DUI Taskforce is a citizen group, funded by county commissioners, to be the face of DUI prevention in the valley. Task Force members develop and fund public awareness, education, and enforcement projects in an effort to reduce the number of drug and alcohol related crashes and deaths in the county.
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3 weeks ago | 
kbzk.com | Hevenn Vanh
It was just another commute for Taylee Bornong. She was on her way home to Bozeman after a shift at the Livingston hospital when her life changed forever after she was struck, head-on, by a wrong-way driver on I-90. "I remember the very first thing that was in my head was, was it my fault? Did I just screw up somebody's life, did I just act stupid on the road? What happened?" describes Bornong.
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3 weeks ago | 
kbzk.com | Hevenn Vanh
BOZEMAN — Independent organizers put on the annual Gallatin Valley Earth Day Festival at the local fairgrounds on Saturday. I chatted with some MSU engineering students on the solar race car they helped build. "We’re an engineering club at Montana State University. We existed in the 90s and kind of went away and then restarted in 2017 and have been building this car that we raced for the first time last summer," says Colter Marcy.
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3 weeks ago | 
kpax.com | Hevenn Vanh
BOZEMAN — At Engine Works on Montana State University’s Innovation Campus sit the only two quantum computers of their kind in the state — which is the beginning of an ambitious, and perhaps revolutionary, research agenda in Bozeman. "QCORE is a new center here at Montana State University (MSU) where we’re looking at opportunities to expand and increase the quantum supply chain and really build on the history here in Montana and the Gallatin Valley," says Director Jayne Morrow.
