The top two candidates from each of the five districts advance to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes' general election on Dec. 13

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.

The Missoula County Elections Office reports more than 77,833 ballots have been mailed for the city's November election.

Nearly a decade after new justice center plans began evolving in Flathead County, voters this general election on Nov. 4 will decide on a $105 million jail bond that would double the current inmate capacity of the detention center and relocate the facility to south Kalispell.

A second nonpartisan judicial elections ballot initiative received the OK of Montana’s attorney general Oct. 9, but with the same edits that triggered a lawsuit

Great Falls has been a relative outlier among large Montana cities, most of which have banned or limited the use of fireworks inside city limits year-round, including around the July 4 holiday. The current city code allows fireworks from July 2 through July 4 from 8 a.m. to midnight.

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.

Voters in Billings have some big decisions to make in next month's municipal election, including deciding who the next mayor will be as well as five council seats.

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

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

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