The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal seeking to close Montana's Republican primary elections to only GOP-registered voters.
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock's offer to partly reimburse the state when his official trips on a government-owned airplane coincide with campaign events isn't good enough for some Republican lawmakers. They say the Democrat should be billed for more of the costs.
Montana officials have disqualified nine candidates for the Montana Legislature for not filing required campaign documents. The candidates removed from the ballot Tuesday include four Democrats, four Republicans and one Libertarian.
The Flathead County sheriff's department is investigating after the body of a 38-year-old woman was found on a barge on Flathead Lake that was docked near Lakeside. Sheriff Chuck Curry says the woman's body was found Monday morning by work crews.
Northern Cheyenne tribal leaders have issued the tribe's second state of emergency order in two days following a weekend shooting in Lame Deer.
Montana election officials say it’s unlikely the state’s June primary election will see the kinds of long lines Arizona voters experienced Tuesday in that state’s presidential primary.
Senator Steve Daines is spending the Senate’s current two-week recess highlighting energy issues in Montana.
State prosecutors plan to re-try Joseph Campbell in the October 2013 shooting death of a neighbor in an Augusta-area subdivision. The attorney general's office filed a motion in District Court in Helena yesterday seeking a new trial date.
An inquest is set next week in the officer-involved shooting of a man in Livingston in January.