Billings Montana

Keldon Joyner, a Montana performer whose drag persona goes by Anita Shadow, read books about wildlife and diverse identities at the zoo as part of pride celebrations scheduled in Billings for the last full week of June.

A weather system is edging into western Montana that forecasters are calling “excessive rainfall.” A handful of flood watches are now posted for the region. Cooler, unsettled conditions are anticipated to last through the rest of June and impact fire season.

The Billings Public Schools Board of Trustees voted Monday night to keep “Lawn Boy” and “Gender Queer: A Memoir” in circulation at the high school level, saying both books meet the libraries’ selection criteria.

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte held a roundtable in Billings last week to talk about public safety challenges and solutions.

After announcing last month it was planning to make masks optional, Billings Public Schools now says it will keep its mask requirement in place when the new semester starts next week.

Billings Clinic is just one of the scores of hospitals across the U.S. looking abroad to ease a shortage of nurses worsened by the pandemic. The national demand is so great that it’s created a backlog of health care professionals awaiting clearance to work in the U.S.

Of the Montana schools that have met the state's program deadline, most show high levels of lead in school drinking water.

New COVID-19 cases and related hospitalizations in Billings are putting so much strain on the local health care system that one hospital may start rationing care as early as this week.

Recent rainfall and early conservation efforts have replenished water supplies in several Montana cities, leading officials to repeal restrictions on water use.

The Native American Achievement Center on the Montana State University Billings campus is starting the school year with more students than in 2020.