While Congress was debating the “big, beautiful budget bill,” Montana Senate Majority Leader Tom McGillvray, R-Billings, was ...

Sen. Jason Ellsworth claimed defamation, emotional distress and invasion of privacy in his fight against the ethics ...

This story was updated July 8, 2025, to characterize the membership of the Freedom Caucus in the Montana state Senate.

The Montana Republican Party has censured nine state senators and will no longer consider them to be Republicans — but the senators say they hold firm to the conservative mantle and the party ...

The Montana Legislature has voted to overturn Gov. Greg Gianforte’s veto of a bill that will pay counties for some of the ...

The Montana Legislature has voted to override Gov. Greg Gianforte’s veto of a bill to reimburse local jails for holding ...

EXCLUSIVE: Montana's U.S. Senate race has one of the most "intense" ground games of the 2024 cycle with the chamber majority hanging in the balance, according to the chairman of the Republican ...

He’s represented Montana in the Senate for 18 years. In that time, he’s become an oddity in his own state: Republicans have swept both chambers of the state legislature and all other statewide ...

The bill’s sponsor, State Senator Greg Hertz, said he was trying to ensure that Montana’s senator would win with more than 50 percent of the vote and to also tamp down on parties ...

Montana’s high-profile race for Senate, which could decide the balance of power in Washington, is shaping up as a fight to see whose unique biography can best earn the trust of the state’s ...