Montana Government News

Rep. Dennis Rehberg upped the ante on his opponent, Sen. Jon Tester , expanding a proposed agreement to ban outside money in their race.

Locked in what many expect to be the most expensive U.S. Senate race in state history, Montana Sen.

Governor Brian Schweitzer took a firsthand look Tuesday at the impact of the Bakken Oil Field on Eastern Montanans.

On Monday, Jesse Laslovich filed for office as he begins his bid to become Montana's next Attorney General.

Last week, Governor Brian Schweitzer traveled to China and looked at selling Montana products to the country.

Montana congressman Denny Rehberg's bid to unseat Sen. Jon Tester took a hit Sunday after the Associated Press uncovered unreported lobbyist contributions to the Republican hopeful's campaign.

Fatal accidents stemming from incidents like car crashes are the leading cause of death for Montana residents between the ages of 1 and 49 years, and the rate is dramatically higher than the national average, according to a recently released draft of the state's latest public health report.

The number of Montanans reporting scams and fraudulent activities is rising. The President and CEO with the Better Business Bureau said they handled 6,000 complaints out of their office in 2011, covering the state of Montana, Eastern Washington, and Northern Idaho.

The Montana Department of Corrections on Friday retracted its request for bids to build a new 120-bed medium security prison - just a week after originally saying the new multimillion dollar project was needed.

A small piece of Montana's history, a letter written 65 years ago, recently resurfaced.

The Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services is encouraging the public to provide feedback on the initial draft of the 2012 Montana state public health assessment.

A 27-year-old Butte woman has pleaded guilty to altering prescriptions for narcotic painkillers so she could obtain 1,764 oxycodone pills over a two-month period.

Would you be willing to sacrifice 20,000 well-paying American jobs for no reason at all? It seems our President doesn't mind too much.

The state of healthcare, as well as insurance coverage in Montana, was the topic of a meeting at St.

The state says that families of female inmates can now use the Internet to deposit money into their personal accounts.

A recent study found that more than a quarter of Montanans have almost no savings or other assets to weather a financial crisis, and many residents are just one crisis away from slipping into poverty.

A recent study found that more than a quarter of Montanans have almost no savings or other assets to weather a financial crisis, and many residents are just one crisis away from slipping into poverty.

Because he sees Citizens United as subverting democracy, Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, proposes a constitutional amendment to reverse it.

The contest for the seat held by Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat, is one of the potentially close 2012 races that could ultimately decide whether Democrats maintain control of Congress' upper chamber.

Republicans are pressing Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus to buck his leadership and use his authority in the payroll tax conference to green-light the Keystone oil sands pipeline.