Madelyn Beck
Madelyn Beck is Boise State Public Radio's regional reporter with the Mountain West News 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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Hospitals continue to fill up across the Mountain West, and that means some patients may have nowhere to go.
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A voting machine company based in the Mountain West has become the center of an unfounded conspiracy theory propagated by the president intended to shed...
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President-elect Joe Biden wants to move the U.S. away from fossil fuel development, but he will face some challenges.
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The entire four-person staff of a county health department in northwest Montana resigned this week.
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removed protections Thursday for the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act in the lower 48 states.
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Logan Potter is a senior at Boise State University. Like many others, the pandemic affected her mental health. "I was struggling quite a bit, so I was...
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Two snowboarders who triggered an avalanche in the backcountry of Colorado in March are facing criminal charges.
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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.
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A new study adds to the growing evidence that cities with more undocumented immigrants don’t see more crime because of them.
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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...