Matt Rosendale

Flathead County election administrator Debbie Pierson says an administrative error led to more than 170 people casting ballots in the wrong ward. Broadwater County Attorney Cory Swanson has entered the Montana Supreme Court race. Montana’s reps in the U.S. House split their votes over the expulsion of now-former Republican Rep. George Santos.

Both Montana’s Republican Representatives in the U.S. House this week opposed a funding bill to avert a partial government shutdown. Despite their opposition, the chamber ultimately passed the stopgap bill with wide bipartisan support.

Montana’s Republican state auditor launched a campaign for the state’s eastern district congressional seat.

A 28-year-old woman has been charged in connection with the death of Mika Westwolf. New House speakers backed by Montana reps. A Billings man is accused of threatening to murder U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

Montana’s public education agency said it will again offer the GED test for the first time in nearly a decade. Montana’s delegates to the House of Representatives backed Ohio Republican Jim Jordan in a vote for leadership again Friday. Hunters will once again head into the woods Saturday for the opening of the deer and elk general rifle season.

A Helena law firm has sued the state over a records request. Republican Brad Johnson has entered the U.S. Senate race. State environmental regulators are cracking down on a leaking wastewater pond near Holland Lake

Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney was in Missoula last week for a talk hosted by the Mansfield Center. The discussion ranged from her memory of being at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, her thoughts on supporters of Donald Trump and her lack of surprise at the removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House.

Montana’s two Republican Congressional Representatives split their vote Tuesday on a historic move to oust Speaker of the U.S. House Kevin McCarthy.

Montana’s congressional delegation honored U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein who died Friday morning at her home in Washington, D.C.

A looming government shutdown would have impacts across the country, including in Montana, where Rep. Matt Rosendale is among those opposing federal spending bills.