The western U.S. House district race is likely to be the state’s most competitive federal race of 2026. Cleveland in town hall meetings and Rains’s introductory literature tell voters that Tester prevailed in western Montana in his 2024 bid while losing the state as a whole by 43,000 votes.

Three lawsuits have been filed against the attorney general over ballot language rewrites to three issues that aim to keep judicial races in Montana nonpartisan, following on the heels of a legislative session where lawmakers brought several bills aimed at doing the opposite.

The law, which has been challenged in court, has resulted in some election departments seeing rejection rates 10 times higher than normal.

Things reached a fever pitch in recent weeks when several council members were arrested, tribal accounts were frozen, and the interim council approved a controversial special election that bans women from running.

BILLINGS — A new Montana law requires the birth year to be listed on absentee ballots as part of the voting process. The law was sponsored by state Rep. Braxton Mitchell, a Columbia Falls Republican, who confirmed with MTN on the phone Thursday afternoon that he hopes it can provide an extra layer of security to increase voter integrity.

Several months into the campaign to become Helena’s next mayor, the two contenders both say they’ve heard a desire for change from voters.

Lawsuit before state Supreme Court asserts rewritten ballot measure is ‘misleading and prejudicial;’ now a second measure has identical language.

Opinion: The Nov. 4 municipal general election is an all mail ballot election. There will be no polling locations on Election Day.