Politics & Government
The Daily Inter Lake’s Politics & Government section delivers updated local and national political coverage, featuring legislative developments, elections, policy debates, and government actions shaping Montana.
Kalispell City Council to consider ways to notify residents of future development
Kalispell City Council is expected to update the municipality’s public participation process for future developmen…
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5,742 of 5,742 precincts - 100 percent
Idaho governor signs 'Choose Life' license plate into law
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho residents will be able to display their opposition to abortion on their license plates under a bill signed into law by Gov. Brad Little.
Correction: Election 2020-Senate-Arizona-McSally story
PHOENIX (AP) — In a story March 4, 2020, about Sen. Martha McSally's drug pricing proposal, The Associated Press erroneously described Honest Arizona, a group …
Bloomberg's hope for Super Tuesday splash lands in Pacific
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — What does more than $500 million get you? For Mike Bloomberg, it was 175 winning votes in this U.S. territory — a group of Pac…
Pompeo: Afghan violence must ease for peace deal to advance
WASHINGTON (AP) — Less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump said he had a “very good talk” with a Taliban leader and insisted the militants want to end t…
Watchdog: Data on children separated at border may be flawed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's effort to track children separated from their families at the border is plagued by communication problems that rai…
Biden's victories unleash something he's never had: Money
WASHINGTON (AP) — Strapped for cash and badly outspent by his rivals, Joe Biden barely had enough money to air television ads in critical Super Tuesday battleg…
New Hampshire gov joins legal fight to keep 'Obamacare'
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Sununu said New Hampshire will join 17 other states in defending the Affordable Care Act as a case that is aimed at …
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Michigan Gov. Whitmer endorses Biden days before primary
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is backing Joe Biden for president days before the state's Democratic primary, giving the former vice pres…
Trump cheers Bloomberg implosion, but Biden worries linger
WASHINGTON (AP) — While Super Tuesday left the Democrats with a pair of front-runners President Donald Trump believes he can define and defeat, there are still…
Trump store opens in heart of contested Philadelphia suburbs
BENSALEM, Pa. (AP) — A shop selling President Donald Trump-themed merchandise in a suburban Philadelphia strip mall has emerged as a magnet for the president’s…
Five years on, ill-prepared EU sees migrants on its borders
Brussels (AP) — Thousands of migrants massed on Greece’s borders with Turkey, and security forces struggling to keep them at bay. Five years on it feels like d…
Black voters power Joe Biden's Super Tuesday success
DETROIT (AP) — Joe Biden's presidential campaign spent the past month on the verge of collapse after disappointing finishes in the overwhelmingly white states …
ICC judges authorize Afghanistan investigation targeting Taliban, Afghan forces and US detention sites.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — ICC judges authorize Afghanistan investigation targeting Taliban, Afghan forces and US detention sites.