Senate Bill 315 carried by Sen. David Howard, R-Park City, would be effective immediately upon passage and signing by the governor.
Two legislative proposals dealing with nuclear power’s future in Montana gained steam this week as they passed out of legislative committees.
Washington state voters approved a sex education referendum, the nation's first sex ed fight to be decided at the ballot.
Though there are five issues before voters on the 2020 ballot, Montanans are effectively voting on only two changes to state policy: whether local governments may pass gun laws, and the legalization of adult-use marijuana.
A Montana judge temporarily blocked a voter-approved law that restricts the collection of absentee ballots with the state's primary elections less than two weeks away.
As the state readies to handle up to possibly half a million forms in 2020 generated under a new law that requires documentation from people who drop off a ballot for someone else, county elections workers shared their concerns with lawmakers Thursday, with one clerk and recorder saying effects from the law amount to “voter suppression.”
The state's high court on Tuesday ruled the ballot language for a legislative referendum to restrict local governments from enacting firearm regulations will stand.
A group of several organizations representing schools, local governments and a gun safety group filed a lawsuit in the Montana Supreme Court on Friday saying ballot language for a referendum limiting local governments' ability to regulate firearms is misleading.
A delay will force the weakened government to try to renegotiate its departure or face two equally unpalatable choices: a "no-deal" Brexit that could bring havoc to the economy or call a second referendum, which could undermine faith in the country's democratic institutions and lead to mass protests. Whichever option she chooses, analysts say May's government is weakened — perhaps fatally.
Instead of selecting a single winner on Election Day, Maine voters were asked to rank all of the candidates from best to worst on the ballot in a new way of voting approved by state voters. Here's a look at what ranked-choice voting is and why the state decided to use it.
Many voters across the country see Tuesday's election as a competition for the soul of America.
Many voters across the country see Tuesday's election as a competition for the soul of America.
HELENA — Montana voters will decide whether to make it illegal for one person to turn in another's absentee ballot unless they have a personal relationship with each other.
BOZEMAN — Among the candidates and issues on Montana's November ballot is a referendum asking voters to extend for another 10 years a property tax that raises nearly $20 million a year to help support the state's public colleges and universities.
Based on a vote count released Monday, it doesn't look like there is enough support to call a special session of the Legislature this month to address two citizen-driven ballot initiatives voters are expected to see this fall.
A proposal from Republican state lawmakers to come back into a special legislative session July 16 to try to win passage of their own ballot initiatives on mining regulations and Medicaid restrictions is far from a done deal, party leaders said Tuesday.
HELENA — Secretary of State Corey Stapleton is preparing ballots to poll Montana lawmakers about holding special session next month to address Republican concerns over two ballot initiatives.
A vote on whether the Catalonia region, which includes the tourist-popular Mediterranean port of Barcelona, should secede from the rest of Spain has deeply divided the country. Here is a look at the events leading up to the vote:
There is a political and ideological division between Montana hunter and angler groups that seems to be widening.
Why, oh why? That's the question many Britons asked when Prime Minister Theresa May announced on April 18 that she was calling a snap election, three years early. Voters went to the polls in a 2015 election, and in the June 2016 European Union membership referendum. The last thing many wanted was another divisive campaign.
HELENA — Montana voters won't have to decide whether to define what a person is in the state constitution.
HELENA — After voting to again amend a referendum asking voters if the right to hunt, fish and trap should be expressly stated in the Montana …
Montana enjoys the longest hunting and trapping seasons in the West, providing incredible experiences for residents and visitors from around t…
This past week we debated SB 236, a legislative referendum, that if passed would put on the ballot in 2018, for voters to decide on a constitu…