Jon Tester

Montana politicians today lined up on party lines to praise and condemn the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn federal protection of abortion access.

Montana’s U.S. Senators split their votes on a gun violence bill that passed the Senate late Thursday night. The legislation follows two mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas.

A bill to expand benefits to millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits is suddenly hung up on a procedural snag in Congress.

The Republican members of Montana’s congressional delegation praised today’s U.S Supreme Court decision, which expanded gun rights.

A bipartisan U.S. Senate agreement negotiated after high-profile mass shootings in Texas, New York, and Oklahoma lacks gun access restrictions that advocates say are needed to prevent such attacks. But the deal’s focus on mental health has raised hopes — and doubts — that it will help reduce gun suicides, particularly in rural Western states with wide-open gun laws.

A bill expanding benefits to millions of military veterans exposed to toxins is now one step away from President Joe Biden’s desk.

Congressional bargainers are celebrating a deal they say could pave the way for passage of legislation that would help millions of veterans exposed to toxins from burn pits during their time in the military. The deal could help roughly two-thirds of Montana veterans.

The leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion which calls for overturning federal protections for abortion drew swift reaction. Here's how such a decision could play out in Montana and what elected leaders are saying about it.

More than half a dozen Montana meat processors are getting federal funding to boost local meatpacking.

Brown Jackson was confirmed in a 53 to 47 vote, with all Senate Democrats and independents voting for her confirmation, and all but three Republicans voting against.