HELENA — A judge on Friday ruled against the Montana Secretary of State’s office in a months-long case over whether the Green Party should allowed on the November ballot. District Judge James Reynolds found Republican efforts to qualify the third party for the primary election were misleading to signatories and that the secretary of state wrongly […]

The contest to be Montana’s next governor is already building up to be a heated and expensive clash between the state’s current U.S. representative and lieutenant governor, after Greg Gianforte and Mike Cooney declared victory in their respective primaries on Tuesday. Cooney cinched the Democratic ticket with nearly 55% of the vote, fending off a challenge from […]