Senator Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton, watches a vote during the Senate Floor Session on Wednesday, February 12, 2025. (Nathaniel Bailey for the Daily Montanan) The Montana Republican Party officially ...

Sens. Matt Regier, Jason Ellsworth and Greg Hertz sit at a Republican Senate caucus meeting before giving their speeches seeking to be Senate President for 2025. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan ...

Of the many education reforms passed by the 2023 Legislature, one has been generating a lot of news lately, particularly in the Bozeman area. For example, local news station KBZK reported that as of ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A letter sent Tuesday from Sen. Jason Ellsworth’s attorney to the legislative auditor demands a ...

Using leftover funds from a legislative committee he formed last year, Sen. Jason Ellsworth signed a $170,100 contract on Dec. 31 for a company called Agile Analytics to research certain legislation ...

This column could be considered an open letter to Montana judges and justices, as well as the various agencies and parties engaged in lawsuits over legislation from the 2023 and 2021 legislative ...

HELENA, Mont. — Tensions are rising in the state’s capitol as the Senate Ethics Committee held its first hearing Friday on Montana Senator Jason Ellsworth (R) Hamilton. The ethics committee started ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. HELENA — The Montana Republican Party officially called for the resignation of Hamilton Sen.

Primary candidate for clerk of the Montana Supreme Court, Jason Ellsworth, doesn’t understand or respect separation of powers — a core tenant of our American democracy that protects us all.

MISSOULA, Mont. — Constitutional Initiative 128, which would expressly protect the right to an abortion in Montana's constitution, is officially in the signature gathering phase, but the lack of input ...

Innovation in public policy has always started at the state level. For example, voting rights for women and minorities were state reforms before being adopted nationally. That’s how the United States ...