Nicky Ouellet
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Nicky has reported and edited for public radio stations in Montana and produced episodes for NPR's The Indicator podcast and Apple News In Conversation. Her award-winning series, SubSurface, dug into the economic, environmental and social impacts of a potential invasion of freshwater mussels in Montana's waterbodies. She traded New Hampshire's relatively short but rugged White Mountains for the Rockies over a decade ago. The skiing here is much better.
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Compared to last year, jobless rates are up in 17 counties, down in four and holding steady in Lincoln and Teton counties. -
Our general manager breaks down our funding, how a push to cut federal grants would impact the station and how Wyomingites view public media. -
Gov. Mark Gordon picked Attorney General Bridget Hill to fill the vacant seat after Chief Justice Kate Fox retires in May. -
Open Spaces show rundown for April 11, 2025
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Lawmakers were set to pick the topics they’ll spend the next few months hearing about from the public and stakeholders. Instead, the committee discussed new rules and norms for the interim. -
Cameron Wright disagreed with the university administration’s plans to continue to funnel $500,000 from UW’s Tier 1 Engineering Initiative to the soon-to-be standalone School of Computing. -
Wyoming has already seen 103 wildfires and 2,600 acres burned this year. That’s about double the number of fires by this time last year, but only 15% of the acreage burned. -
A Washington woman walked about 10 feet onto the cone of Old Faithful and a Georgia man drove and parked his vehicle in a thermal area. -
This year’s rate is considerably higher than February of last year, at 2.8%, but still well below the national unemployment rate of 4.1%. -
“Improving the Service’s interactions with the public, simplifying regulations, accelerating permitting with technology, and relying more on education, voluntary compliance, and verification,” he told senators on the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
