Madelyn Beck
Reporter, Mountain West °µºÚ±¬ÁÏ BureauMadelyn 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 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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Just being homeless puts you at greater risk for getting and spreading COVID-19. And several homeless residents have tested positive for the disease... -
Jake Billington has worked at the livestock auction at the Twin Falls Livestock Commission in southern Idaho for 28 years. -
A proposed wind farm in southern Idaho could become one of the largest in the nation. -
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can eliminate the traditional insanity defense. Only four states don’t have one in the U.S., and three of... -
COVID-19 fears have forced a lot of bars and restaurants to close across the Mountain West. That leaves workers in a tough spot. But some communities... -
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a national shortage of personal protection equipment for medical personnel such as face masks and gowns, and... -
A new government watchdog report published Wednesday says taxpayers are shouldering the burden of cleaning up the nation’s thousands of abandoned... -
The Bureau of Land Management’s plan to move its headquarters out west is costing the agency around half the employees asked to make the move, according... -
As water becomes more scarce in the Mountain West, a new analysis finds that a surprising amount is being used to raise cattle. -
As outreach efforts ramp up ahead of the next U.S. census, many people are confused about what the census means or how they can participate, according...
