The 2026 general election is just about a year away. The races for Montana’s U.S. Senate and House seats are taking shape. Three Montana Democrats join the race to challenge Sen. Daines. The U.S.

HELENA, Mont. — The months-long saga over a contract controversy from former Montana Senate president Jason Ellsworth (R-Hamilton) has ended with him receiving an extremely consequential punishment ...

The Big Mountain Commercial Association hosted its first-ever ‘Snow Bus Pray For Snow’ fundraiser in Whitefish to support the free snow bus shuttle.The Snow Bus Artists and Craftsmen of the ...

Montana Senate can’t muster enough votes to punish former president Ellsworth State Sen. Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton, speaks in the Senate chamber on March 24, 2025, as fellow senators debate ...

Gov. Greg Gianforte’s signature property tax relief measure reached a possible end Thursday evening to its stop-and-go journey through the state Legislature as it narrowly failed a vote in the Montana ...

Communities in southern and eastern Montana were connected to passenger rail lines running from Chicago to Seattle until 1979. An effort to fund the revival of those routes passed the House but failed ...

The Montana Human Rights Bureau found “no reasonable cause to believe unlawful discrimination occurred” by Republican state Sen. Barry Usher as alleged by state Sen. Mary Ann Dunwell. However, the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. HELENA — Taking barely three hours on the Senate floor, the framework to appropriate more than ...

Republicans say the resource management plan targeted the state’s coal industry. The Senate voted Tuesday along party lines to advance a resolution that would scrap a Biden-era resource management ...

The final priority for the 69th Montana Legislature — one many lawmakers campaigned on — passed both chambers on the final day of the session. Property tax relief for residential payers has been top ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. HELENA — Gov. Greg Gianforte’s signature property tax relief measure reached a possible end ...

The Montana Senate drew to a stalemate Monday over whether to expel former leader Jason Ellsworth for ethics violations, though there’s no limit to how many tries they get at taking some sort of ...