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Judges finds new Montana election law unconstitutional
A Montana law that would have required people who turn 18 in the month before an election to vote in person — th...
Recounts results confirm Bukacek won utility board GOP primary
Ballot recounts conducted in four counties, the last concluding Monday, confirm that Flathead Valley internal medicine doctor Ann “Annie” Bukacek has won the...
Recounts confirm Bukacek as winner of PSC primary
Ann Bukacek is still the Republican winner in the Montana Public Service Commission District No. 5 primary, according to recounts in three of four counties.
Montana Secretary of State receives recount request for PSC District 5
Montana Public Service Commission candidate Derek Skees requested a recount in the District 5 GOP primary after earning 11,146 votes to winner Ann Bukacek’s ...
Supreme Court: Montana regents make campus gun rules
Montana's Board of Regents, not the Legislature, has the constitutional authority to regulate the possession and storage of firearms on public college campus...
Bukacek presumptive winner of Republican PSC primary
Flathead Valley physician Ann “Annie” Bukacek is the presumptive winner of the Republican primary in the race for a seat on Montana’s Public Service Commissi...
Republican primaries highlight a divided caucus
Eyes across Montana last week were affixed to the slow drip of precinct results in the neck-and-neck U.S. House GOP primary between former U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Al Olszewski, an orthopedic surgeo...
Holmquist leapfrogs Fallon with addition of provisional ballots
In a stunning reversal, incumbent Flathead County Commissioner Pam Holmquist surpassed challenger Jack Fallon with the addition of provisional ballots to the...
Zinke wins GOP nod in race for new Montana House seat
Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke won an unexpectedly tight race Thursday to become the Republican nominee in the race for a new U.S. House seat represent...
GOP primary for PSC’s District 5 Public Service Commission within recount margin
Nearly 20 hours after polls closed, fewer than 100 votes separate the first- and second-place vote-getters in the Republican primary for the District 5 seat ...
Last-minute election law changes and scattered ballot errors punctuate an otherwise smooth, slow primary election in Montana
Some of Montana’s most anticipated 2022 primary races have already been called, but in Lincoln County, the counting continues.
Republicans Fuller, Sprunger win legislative primaries
Veteran state lawmaker John Fuller handily defeated his Republican rival and political neophyte Lee Huestis in the GOP primary for the Senate District 4 seat.
Rosendale wins GOP primary; Zinke race too early to call
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana's lone congressman handily won the GOP primary in his bid for a second term Tuesday as ballot-counting continued in the race for...
Gustafson and Brown advance after Montana Supreme Court primary
Montana Supreme Court Justice Ingrid Gustafson and current Public Service Commission Chair James Brown have emerged as the top two vote-getters in the non-partisan primary election for the high court’s second sea...
Loge garners re-election support in Mineral, Sanders counties
Rep. Denley Loge has secured another term in the Montana House following a hotly contested primary election.