Madelyn Beck
Reporter, Mountain West News BureauMadelyn 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 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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Many big cities are seeing the number of COVID-19 cases fall, but rural counties are seeing the opposite, according to a new analysis by the Daily...
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More than a dozen football players from universities around the Mountain West are headed to the NFL. They were drafted over the weekend as a record...
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A National Wildlife Federation report published this week says new oil and gas leases on public lands could harm existing hunting economies in the West.
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Idaho State University has accepted more students for next year than it did for this year, but that doesn't mean it'll have more students enrolling.
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A new study in the journal Science says that human-driven climate change is pushing the American West into a megadrought, and into its driest period in...
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As so many telecommuters, teachers, college students and children work and learn from home, there have been fears that the Internet wouldn't be up to...
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There’s been too much oil on the market since well before the coronavirus outbreak. But a recent agreement to cut production won’t be enough to prevent...
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It’s hard to keep some items stocked in stores these days. We’ve all heard about the toilet paper shortage. But what about eggs?
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A new study has found that long-term air pollution increases COVID-19 mortality rates.
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Imagine something like a velociraptor, but faster and stronger, and with feathers.