Elinor Smith
Reporter and evening news hostElinor graduated from the University of Montana School of Journalism in 2024, where she reported for the UM Legislative News Service and worked with The Montana Media Lab teaching high schoolers about reporting stories both for the radio and for podcasts.
She joined the MTPR team during the summer of 2024 as an intern. She now reports, creates social media content and hosts All Things Considered.
Elinor grew up in Boise, Idaho and enjoys spending her free time crocheting and writing short stories. She can be reached by email at elinor.smith@umontana.edu.
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Three foreign men have been arrested in northern Montana for either illegal entry or reentry into the country. Border Patrol agents claimed those men held gang affiliations, but defense attorneys say there’s no proof of that and criminal cases against two of them men were dismissed. -
Milltown dam water right will be used to support fish, state, CSKT say; Lawmakers expand teacher incentive program; Bill aims to regulate the use of sexually explicit AI-generated images. -
The law requires health insurance companies to cover mental health and physical health at the same level. Montana PBS's Anna Rau looked into whether or not that's happening and how it affects Montanans. She sat down with MTPR's Elinor Smith to explain. -
The National Endowment for the Humanities is reportedly next up in a series of DOGE cuts to federal spending. The money funds programs across the state providing Montanans with access to education on history, literature, philosophy and more.
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The Trump Administration has made quick work dismantling aspects of the federal government it calls wasteful or inefficient. Caught up in those cuts is the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires the federal government to take environmental impacts into consideration. -
State health officials are notifying residents of whooping cough circulating throughout the state. Montana has seen a total of 140 cases of the disease since December of last year.
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Watercraft inspection stations near the towns of Dillon, Ravalli and Anaconda opened last weekend to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species. -
A back-and-forth over tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on Mexican and Canadian goods has created uncertainty among Montana businesses. Montana’s agricultural producers may be hit especially hard by uncertainty in international trade. -
Last year, the United States Surgeon General declared loneliness across the country as an epidemic, going so far as to claim that isolation and loneliness are a higher cause of death than obesity. Hit especially hard by high rates of loneliness are senior citizens across the country. -
Briefs: Montana FWP is one step closer to replacing its 22-year-old wolf management plan. Mountain lion found dead near Troy with its head and tail cut off.
