Mara Silvers

Election administrators to count and verify signatures for CI-128 over several weeks.

Post-pandemic “unwinding” has seen more than 135,000 Montanans disenrolled from the state health program.

Backers of election reform and abortion rights initiatives called the change in protocol ‘incorrect’ and ‘unlawful.’

The facility is preparing to welcome its fifth administrator in roughly two years.

Lawyers were told to craft a temporary plan for handling ‘inactive voter’ signatures for three constitutional initiatives.

Details about where the machines would go — and how they would help those most at risk — are still sparse.

Valley View Home in Glasgow, one of the few nursing homes on the Hi-Line, aims to take on more patients and staff, bit by bit.

The Democrat’s campaign targets mansion roofers as undocumented, without evidence.

With Montana tilting redder, the Democrat’s challenge to GOP Gov. Greg Gianforte relies on reaching beyond his base.

The justices unanimously found that the 2013 law violates pregnant minors’ right to privacy and equal protection.

Gov. Gianforte endorsed a ‘homestead exemption’ but offered limited feedback about the group’s other proposals.

Supporters said the rules would increase oversight of abortion clinics. Opponents argued they could be forced to shut down.

The secretary of state’s office has certified CI-128, launching a new chapter for the abortion rights proposal.

An abortion rights measure and two election proposals have spent months navigating legal hurdles and diversions.

The state’s cease-and-desist letter to the Daily Montanan alleged the publication of “sensitive and private” information about workplace climate.

Two candidates for Montana’s governor’s seat have agreed to debate in mid-October. Incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte is scheduled to face off against Democratic challenger Ryan Busse, a conservation advocate and former firearms executive, in an Oct. 16 debate hosted by NonStop Local, an ABC-Fox affiliate, Gianforte’s campaign says.

The Gianforte administration has tapped a Connecticut-based company to care for “difficult-to-place” populations in state custody.

As third-party money surges in the background, the four nonpartisan candidates for the open positions on the Montana Supreme Court are convincing voters that their races are far from boring. While Bidegaray and her opponent, Wilson, have often tried to dispel the heated political rhetoric surrounding the judicial races, Swanson and Lynch have used it to power attacks against one another and defend their own reputations.

The 2023 cases deal with Medicaid funding for abortion, ultrasound requirements and a ban on a common second-trimester procedure.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision comes nearly two years after House Bill 702 was partially blocked.