The bill cleared a key hurdle early this morning after the president and House Speaker Mike Johnson persuaded a group of ...

Lawmakers who are aligned politically with the president are increasingly voting in line with the chief executive. Doing ...

Family and friends in Butte say they will miss the wit and wisdom of Pat Williams, 87, a diehard Democrat who grew up here.

Tester said he’s busy “living the good life ... looking at a field of wheat right now and a field of alfalfa that I gotta get ...

Montana's longest serving congressman and former state legislator from Butte, Pat Williams, died Wednesday at age 87.

Pat Williams, Montana’s longest-serving member of the U.S. House, died Wednesday evening in a Missoula hospital. The Butte native, who was Montana’s last Democrat elected to the House, served nine ...

THREE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES ARE RUNNING TO FILL THE VACANT DISTRICT 67 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEAT -- WHICH REPRESENTS PART OF BATON ROUGE ...

Republican lawmakers have made an overhaul of the judiciary one of their top priorities this session. Republicans release updated Senate text ahead of ‘big, beautiful bill’ vote Microsoft is ...

U.S. House candidates Greg Gianforte and Kathleen Williams disagree on the future of health care. The candidates explained their differences for the Lee Montana Newspapers this week. Rep ...

It's easy these days to feel hopeless about the basic mechanics of democracy. But what happened in the Montana State House shows it’s not all for naught.

A bill that may impact students’ right to vote passed the Montana House of Representatives on Thursday. House Bill 413 sponsor Rep. Jane Gillette, R-Three Forks, said the bill only seeks to ...

Gov. Greg Gianforte walks into the Montana House of Representatives to deliver the State of the State address on Jan. 13 in the state Capitol. THOM BRIDGE, Independent Record ...