“We have a global community cheering us on, and we still have our vote. The authoritarian playbook is powerful, but is not invincible. We have no kings,” one speaker said.

"I think this will be talked about for a long time," a former GOP Senate president said of the coalition that took over the upper chamber this legislative session.

The 69th Montana Legislature adjourned Wednesday after passing sweeping property tax legislation and a far-reaching spending bill, but not before a final dose of drama in the Senate.

This is the first case in Montana that a Missoula immigration attorney is aware of involving a person with lawful status being detained by federal immigration authorities.

Many legislative resolutions generally have no effect beyond communicating a sentiment of the Legislature and are often referred to around the Capitol as "letters to Santa Claus."

Less than one month after it was signed into law by Gov. Greg Gianforte, HB 121 got its first court hearing Monday in Missoula.

The $16.6 billion budget would make significant investments in government-funded health care, correctional facilities and teacher pay, but there are differing opinions on whether lawmakers are overspe...

A select few legislators and business lobbyists are talking behind closed doors and in hallways about how to get their preferred property tax relief bill over the finish line.

U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen also barred the federal government from initiating deportation proceedings on the basis of the two students' revoked visas.

Such laws are in place in 21 states to try to keep guns out of the hands of people experiencing mental illness or who have threatened themselves or others.

Without proper visas, international students become undocumented and are required to leave the United States, or face arrest or deportation.

The Montana Legislature advanced two bills that, according to Democrats, could put women's private medical information at risk when they seek reproductive health care.

A bill that sought to extend Montana's wolf hunting season into late spring when wolves are raising pups went down on its final vote Friday in the state House.

A university spokesperson said they learned of the revocations at MSU through a routine check and did not receive any communication from the federal government.

This week's break allows lawmakers to take a needed breath after what has been a first half filled with hundreds of bills, a few policy surprises, high drama and tension.

House Bill 121 could wreak havoc on public employees, open up government agencies to legal battles and thrust financial costs on already-strapped programs, organizations say.

The latest scrum on the Senate floor led to anger, tears, and embarrassment, some of the GOP caucus members said. Accusations of corruption flew across the chamber.

Sen. Jason Ellsworth's former business partner said his reputation has been severely damaged by the audit report, which the senator's attorney said rose to the level of defamation.

"The people of Montana expect that we find and adjudicate corruption in state government," Sen. Carl Glimm, R-Kalispell.

A memo from the Legislative Audit Division calls Sen. Jason Ellsworth's attempt to skirt oversight in the bidding process "illegal" and a "waste of state resources."

The new agreement includes a plan to send 240 Montana inmates to the company's private prison in Tutwiler, Mississippi.

"If, as legislators, we choose to bury our heads in the sand … we will pay a heck of a lot more than we’re paying now with this program."

GOP Senate President Matt Regier said he only recently learned of the $170k state-funded contract. On Friday he said he was trying to cancel it and terminate any payments.

Senate President Matt Regier said he has “very, very serious concerns” about the contract arrangement. "The more you look at it, the deeper it's getting.”

Senate President Matt Regier's effort to placate nine Republican members over a dispute about committee assignments failed on the fourth day of the Legislature.

Democrats and a group of Republicans prevailed on a vote that undid several committee assignments and sent the upper chamber into a quagmire in its first week.

The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a district court ruling in the nation’s first constitutional climate change trial , affirming that the youth plaintiffs have a “fundamental constitutional...

A Lewis and Clark County District Court judge on Monday issued a preliminary injunction that prevents the state from enforcing multiple laws, rules and policies that are keeping transgender Montanans ...

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The Montana Supreme Court issued an opinion Wednesday that allows a lower court’s injunction blocking the 2023 law that bans gender-affirming care for minors to stay in place, agreeing with the court ...

The critical habitat proposal decreases areas around Yellowstone, but adds swaths of Colorado and New Mexico

The critical habitat proposal decreases areas around Yellowstone, but adds swaths of Colorado and New Mexico

The Montana Legislature’s Joint Rules Committee on Tuesday voted down a proposed rule change targeted at a Democratic transgender representative from Missoula which sought to designate the use of priv...

The Yellowstone County Commissioners have selected Emma Kerr-Carpenter to replace Kathy Kelker in the Montana Senate.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management last week finalized its plans to end future coal leasing of about 1.7 million acres of federal land in Montana’s Powder River Basin as part of an effort to reduce gr...

The State of Montana and the parties involved in a lawsuit that shortened Montana’s wolf trapping season in the western two-thirds of the state to reduce the chance that threatened grizzly bears would...

In response to record-low bull trout spawning redds in the South Fork of the Flathead River and some of its tributaries, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission last week adopted new closures in area...

Tactical Civics claims to have 450 members in Montana and chapters in nine counties. The organization has found harbor with several lawmakers and recruited using a statewide ballot initiative campaign...

Gov. Greg Gianforte elected vice chairperson of Republican Governors Association

Democrats on the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Tuesday advanced U.S. Sen. Jon Tester’s Montana Headwaters Legacy Act out of the committee on a party-line vote, meaning the l...

Montana lawmakers will head into the 2025 legislative session in a similar position they were in two years ago and will have to decide whether, and how, to reduce property tax assessment rates to keep...

A district court judge in Helena heard arguments Thursday afternoon from attorneys seeking a preliminary injunction on behalf of two transgender Montanans who argue that a rule from the state public h...

A fifth wolf was found to have been shot and killed in Wolf Management 313 earlier this month, the unit just north of Yellowstone National Park where the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission had put a...

Missoula Democrat Monica Tranel announced Monday she is running again for Montana’s 1st Congressional District in 2024 two years after she lost to Republican Ryan Zinke by about 7,800 votes.

A handful of Democratic Montana lawmakers and other political affiliates rallied at the state Capitol Monday, urging Gov. Greg Gianforte and his administration to switch course and opt back into a fed...