Madelyn Beck
Madelyn Beck is Boise State Public Radio's regional reporter with the Mountain West °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ Bureau. She's from Montana but has reported everywhere from North Dakota to Alaska to Washington, D.C. Her last few positions included covering energy resources in Wyoming and reporting on agriculture/rural life issues in Illinois.
Pre-journalism jobs include (but are not limited to): ranch hand for Icelandic horses, hotel laundress, large caliber brass shell sorter/inventory, salmon processor in Alaska and waitress for a murder mystery dinner theater.
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The entire four-person staff of a county health department in northwest Montana resigned this week. -
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed protections Thursday for the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act in the lower 48 states. -
Utah has a number of major medical facilities that often take patients from all over the Mountain West. But the state is nearing a breaking point: too many COVID-19 patients and not enough resources. That crisis in care could have a domino effect around the region. -
Thousands have adopted teletherapy during the pandemic, partially thanks to loosening regulations and stay-at-home requirements, with mixed results. -
Two snowboarders who triggered an avalanche in the backcountry of Colorado in March are facing criminal charges. -
A newly published study out of the University of Idaho suggests that the higher perceived risk of a disease, the more likely someone is to vaccinate. -
Extremism experts say a fast-growing network of far-right activists could threaten the Mountain West and beyond. It’s called the People’s Rights network and, according to a new report, it includes anti-maskers, militia members and conspiracy theorists. -
A new study adds to the growing evidence that cities with more undocumented immigrants don’t see more crime because of them. -
Firefighters have long studied how fires behave to figure out where they’re going and how to keep people safe. But wildfires are becoming more unpredictable. -
A dispatcher says someone was reportedly walking around a house when the owners were away on vacation. An update says that person appears to be holding a gun. An officer approaches that person, whose hands are in their pockets. They interact for a short time, and then the person quickly pulls something out of a pocket and points. Quick – is it a gun or a cell phone?
