Edward F. O'Brien
General Assignment ReporterEdward O’Brien first landed at Montana Public Radio three decades ago as a news intern while attending the University of Montana School of Journalism. His first career job out of school was covering the 1995 Montana Legislature. When the session wrapped up, O’Brien was fortunate enough to land a full-time position at the station as a general assignment reporter.
Feel free to drop him a line at edward.obrien@umt.edu.
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Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road is expected to fully open to traffic June 16. Montana housing officials will reopen the waitlist for Section 8 rental assistance. A grizzly bear was killed near Seeley Lake while charging a person. -
Snowpack across Montana is well below normal for early June; Heat and drought are stressing Great Falls' aging trees; Flathead Lake managers say there's not enough water to fill the lake this year
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One of the biggest wildfires in the American west right now is burning about 4 miles north of Plains in western Montana’s Sanders County. -
Gov. Greg Gianforte on Monday received his first wildfire season briefing of the year. The outlook is a mixed bag. Most of Montana’s land and fire management agencies say they’re prepared for fire season. The weather forecast, however, is grim. -
Five grizzly bear deaths have been confirmed in Montana so far this year. Montana ranchers may qualify for meat processing settlement funds. Deer ticks, carriers of Lyme disease, detected in eastern Montana
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This week’s topic comes from a listener who asks, ‘Why is there no hog industry in Montana?’ While Montana famously has more cows than people, as we dug into this question, we found out that pigs are a big deal in Montana. -
Montana voters handed their local school districts a mixed bag of results in this week’s school levy elections. A new wildfire burning in steep and rocky terrain in the Bitterroot Valley isn't threatening people or structures. For the second time in as many months, Montana Technological University in Butte has announced a new chancellor.
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If you've ever seen or experienced a pickup pull alongside or in front of you and then belch out a huge cloud of black or gray exhaust — well, you've just been coal-rolled. But why? -
A pair of north-central Montana bighorn sheep have tested positive for pneumonia-causing bacteria; Montana wildlife officials are already intercepting boats fouled with invasive species.
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Voters in several Montana school districts will soon decide the outcome of various local board races and levy issues. School officials are hoping for more support than they found last spring.
