Montanans love public lands: So what?
Mobile home park unions push ahead on lease negotiations
As Montana moves inmates to a prison in Mississippi, families worry about losing contact
Republican, independent candidates outraise Democrats in federal races
Montana GOP asks court to strike down entirety of Gianforte-backed property tax law
Balancing growth and gravel in Paradise Valley
Can Montana’s most popular Republican microtarget her way to Congress?
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Why some Republican legislative candidates are attracting longtime Democratic donors
When the 2025 session ended, many lawmakers, lobbyists and political observers questioned whether a similar cross-party coalition of Republicans and Democrats would take shape in 2027 when legislators gavel back in. The recent campaign spending of some donors indicates that a strategic effort to ensure bipartisan alliances may already be underway.
State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy withdraws from Eastern District House primary amid ‘allegations of serious sexual abuse’
State Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy has dropped out of the Democratic primary for U.S. House representing Montana’s Eastern Congressional District, according to an announcement by the Montana Democratic Party that references unspecified “allegations of serious sexual abuse against Mr. Windy Boy.”
Billings schools ask voters to approve $5 million in new taxes
Billings Public Schools is asking voters to opt in to roughly $5 million a year in new homeowner taxes to support instruction and safety in the city’s schools.
Forest Service develops ‘sustained yield’ aimed at propping up Montana’s flagging timber industry
If all goes according to plan with the Forest Service’s new Tri-Forest Federal Sustained Yield proposal, 35 million board feet of lumber will be bound for local mills and wood products company every year for the next decade. Both proponents and opponents have questions about how the proposal will work in practice.
Can a Republican ride to Congress without Trump’s coattails?
Now comes Al Olszewski, aka “Dr. Al,” to perform his role in the rotation of special guests at Republican dinners, where references to Donald Trump are like table salt — never on the menu, but always included. Unless, that is, there’s another candidate in the race boasting of Trump’s endorsement, as there is in Olszewski’s four-way GOP primary for Montana’s open Western District U.S. House seat. In that case, the challenge becomes this: how to persuade Republican voters of your MAGA-grade fealty to the party’s national standard-bearer without actually saying so.
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