Politics

Friday, political analysts said they didn’t hear the candidates plow new ground in the debate, and the politicians displayed both predicted strategies and less expected ones.

In the race for Montana’s western congressional district, Republican candidate Ryan Zinke and Democratic candidate Monica Tranel have repeatedly exchanged sharp criticisms, and that didn’t change during MTN’s U.S. House debate in Bozeman Saturday night.

John Riley HELENA (KPAX) - Montana Commissioner of Political Practices Jeff Mangan announced on social media that he will be stepping down from his position effective November 7. Mangan took over the office that enforces campaign, ethics and lobbying laws in 2017, succeeding Jonathan Motl...

Montana auditors calculated they spent more than 529 hours investigating nearly 100 complaints. The 98 reports received by the hotline mark a 75 percent increase from 56 reports in 2021.

Rosendale split from Ronning and Buchanan on abortion, saying he was glad to see the issue was returned to states to determine in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs vs. Jackson decision in June.

The court found that the suite of laws, which banned same-day registration and added complications around voter ID, among other things, violated the Montana Constitution and unreasonably restricted one's constitutional right to vote.

The package would keep the federal government up and running through Dec. 16, giving congressional leaders and the White House more time to work out how much to spend on discretionary programs and to draft bipartisan versions of the dozen annual government funding bills.

Katheryn Houghton (KHN) Montana health officials are proposing to oversee and set standards for the charitable contributions that nonprofit hospitals make in their communities each year to justify their access to millions of dollars in tax exemptions...

Montana’s Supreme Court is giving the ACLU of Montana on behalf of plaintiffs 20 days to file a response to the state’s petition to strike down a lower court’s order that the health department needed to permit gender marker changes on birth certificates.

The Montana Human Rights Bureau found reasonable cause to believe the Attorney General’s Office engaged in unlawful discrimination during the hiring process following an investigation into the Montana Department of Justice.