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.

Reps. Melissa Nikolakakos, R-Great Falls, Gary Parry, R-Colstrip, and Curtis Shomer, R-Billings, take their oath of office on the first day of the 69th Legislature on Jan. 6, 2025. (Micah Drew/Daily ...

Sen. Emma Kerr-Carpenter, D-Billings, (left) is sworn into office by Yellowstone County District Court Judge Collette Davies on Dec. 3, 2024 (Photo screen shot from Community 7 Television). One ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — In 2021, lawmakers passed House Bill 599 that revised opencut mining laws and made applications for certain opencut operations less strict. One of the revisions changed the number of ...

The Montana Senate will conduct an ethics investigation into a $170,100 government contract brokered late last year by former Senate President Jason Ellsworth with his business associate. The Senate ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 — The Montana Senate preliminarily passed two bills Monday sponsored by Sen. Jonathan ...

A last-minute change to a 2019 bill put an end date on Montana’s Medicaid expansion program, setting the stage for what is anticipated to be the most significant health care debate of the 2025 Montana ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. HELENA — The 69th Montana Legislature will require much patience and a lot of hard work — said ...