Great Falls is an outlier among large Montana cities, most of which long ago banned or limited the use of fireworks inside ...

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Voters in cities and towns across Montana will elect municipal leaders and decide local ballot measures Nov. 4. These are the races and issues MTFP’s staff is keeping an eye ...

The Montana Election Observation Initiative hosted a public forum on Wednesday in advance of the state's municipal election to highlight organizational changes and encourage new ways for the community ...

Montanans stand in line to register to vote at the Lewis and Clark County Elections Office on Nov. 5, 2024. Three bills passed in 2025 changing voter laws have been challenged in court. (Photo by ...

Constitutional Initiative 131 would require district court, Supreme Court elections to be nonpartisan; groups say rewritten wording suggests the opposite.

The heightened attention on the ballot initiative process comes after Montanans legalized recreational cannabis and enshrined in the state's constitution the explicit right to abortions before the ...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. – On August 14, 2025, the Chippewa Cree Indians of the Rocky Boy’s Reservation and two Native voters filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana ...

Republican President Donald Trump's re-election campaign sued the Democratic governor of Montana on Wednesday in an attempt to halt an expansion of mail-in voting in the run up to November's election.

The Republican National Committee and the Montana Republican Party last month filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit challenging two “commonsense” election laws passed during the 2025 Legislature.