Yellowstone Public Radio (Billings, MT)

Yellowstone Public Radio is a regional public radio network located in Billings, Montana. It broadcasts to a wide area, including most of Montana and parts of northern Wyoming. The station is managed by Montana State University Billings and features a diverse lineup of programming, including shows from National Public Radio, classical music, and jazz.

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Montana bets on business interest to help renovate Old West towns

1 day ago | ypradio.org | Kayla Desroches

The Montana Department of Commerce on Wednesday announced lease applications are now open for some of Montana’s oldest standing buildings in central and southwestern Montana, now with longer lease times and, theoretically, more reason for private businesses to invest. The current application period is the result of a new law the legislature passed in May that extends lease times from 20 years to up to 99 years.
Butte taps into legal exemption to raise Pride flag

3 days ago | ypradio.org | Kayla Desroches

Butte-Silver Bow city-county commissioners voted 11 to 1 this month to raise the rainbow flag at the county courthouse as the community has done for more than a decade, according to Heidi Doxey with the Butte Pride Foundation. “It is a historical precedent here in town to have that flag flown outside the courthouse during June,” said Doxey. Up until recently, whether or not Butte would be able to raise the flag was in doubt.
Montana communities celebrate Pride Month

1 week ago | ypradio.org | Kayla Desroches

Pride events are scheduled statewide, from Missoula to Billings, where nonprofit 406 Pride is organizing the local events. Marcus Frye is a youth pastor at Billings First Congregational Church and 406 Pride’s board president. “Every year at Pride, I see groups of young people walking around who have just put on their rainbow clothes, they’re wearing flags around their shoulders as capes, they’re walking around with their friends and just having a good time,” said Frye.
Which organization snubbed Trump this week? Find out in the quiz

1 week ago | ypradio.org | Holly J. Morris
Indigenous art fellows interpret the Great Plains in new exhibit

1 week ago | ypradio.org | Kayla Desroches

A new exhibit at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings reflects the rocky, High Plains climate of northeastern Wyoming, where the artists created the pieces during their residencies with the UCross Foundation. The more-than 40-year-old Ucross art residency program is located east of Sheridan, at the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains that cross into southeastern Montana.
NOVA Theatre looks ahead to 2025-26 season

1 week ago | ypradio.org | Karl Lengel

Shakespeare in the parks opens Henry the V this week at the Duck Pond in Bozeman, the second of its major productions touring under the Big Sky this summer. Elsewhere, established companies and new ventures are presenting shows, running summer camps, and making sure the show goes on. NOVA Theatre in Billings is wrapping its second season at the former Venture Theater location on Montana Avenue. Over the past weekend, NOVA opened its production of Pride and Prejudice.
Opera Montana builds community as it looks ahead to new season

1 week ago | ypradio.org | Karl Lengel

For years, nonprofit arts agencies have been building partnerships across audiences with subscriptions, across artists and talent through residencies and repertory companies, and recently across the nonprofits whose missions might align with a particular production's subject matter. In the coming weeks, we'll present some previews of the upcoming cultural season and the creative ways our artists and the organizations that support them are finding to keep the arts alive under the Big Sky.
A free book program for young readers marks 30 years in business

1 week ago | ypradio.org | Kayla Desroches

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is observing three decades of distributing books to readers five years old and younger. Elizabeth Clinton with affiliate social services organization United Way of Yellowstone County says families who sign up receive a free book delivered to their doors monthly. The model is aimed at making access to reading convenient and affordable.
Agricultural producers assess storm aftermath in central Montana

1 week ago | ypradio.org | Kayla Desroches

Social media photos and video show a snowlike layer of hail coating the ground just northeast of Billings in Shepherd, where rancher Turk Stovall with the Montana Stockgrowers Association owns a feedlot. “Many of the neighbors just got completely wiped out,” he said. Stovall said he feels lucky his operations sustained comparatively minor damage, but his ranch relies on impacted local farmers and the feed they produce.
New Montana Department of Commerce director to take helm

1 week ago | ypradio.org | Kayla Desroches

Montana Governor Greg Gianforte announced his appointment of a new Department of Commerce director today. According to a Monday news release, Gianforte is tapping real estate broker Marta Bertoglio of Clancy to fill the role. Bertoglio is a Air Force veteran who owns a realty business with satellite offices statewide and took her seat in the state House of Representatives in 2021. She replaces Paul Green, who resigned earlier this year.