A law that passed with bipartisan support in 2005 allows the vote of an elector who returns their completed absentee ballot and then dies before Election Day to be counted.
To override the vetoes, the polls would have needed the support of two-thirds of the members of each chamber.
The Montana Legislature passed a law recognizing Juneteenth National Freedom Day, the 46th state to do so, in 2017, but the bill stopped short of establishing it as a legal holiday.
After focusing on protecting other structures and halting the spread of the blaze on Mt. Maurice the previous day, crews focused on containing the fire as it continues to burn on the eastern edge of the Beartooth Mountains.
Montana Governor Greg Gianforte tours the Robertson Draw fire south of Red Lodge with fire and Carbon County officials on Thursday.
The governor made the $18,732 donation during a tour of One Health Bighorn, a health center offering substance abuse disorder treatment in southeast Montana.
The U.S. Forest Service said Monday the Deep Creek Fire between Townsend and White Sulphur Springs is now at 180 acres and there are 70 personnel assigned to it.
Across Montana, elected officials, public health officers and attorneys are left with wildly different interpretations of what House Bill 257 actually does.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks is unsure how effective the new laws will be when it comes to driving down wolf populations.
Justice Jim Shea authored the opinion Thursday, writing neither the state Constitution nor its framers' recorded intent required an independent commission to screen judicial applicants.
Montana is on track to ink a new contract with the private prison near Shelby by the end of the month, a deal that's come together under an different landscape than previous negotiations.
“All Montanans need to work together to prevent wildfires,” Gov. Greg Gianforte said.
The group that successfully brought a 1978 ballot referendum that put proposed nuclear power plants up to a public vote only to have it overturned by the 2021 Legislature has filed for a ballot issue to override the bill passed by lawmakers.
President Joe Biden recently indicated support of further protections for gray wolves, although details on his position are not entirely clear.
Following an audit that found falsified financial records at the Montana Public Service Commission, a former PSC chairman is asking Gov. Greg Gianforte to do something no previous executive has done — remove a commissioner from office.
The applicants include Michele Reinhart Levine, who was appointed to the vacancy under the last administration but rejected by the state Senate in April.
Tuesday's filing is the latest in a flurry of constitutional challenges to legislation sponsored by Republican lawmakers.
Montana state employees who have been working remotely because of the pandemic will begin returning to their worksites this month and Capitol Complex offices that have been closed to the public will reopen in two weeks.
Sen. Mike Cuffe, a Eureka Republican who carried two of the most substantial voting bills to pass, said the session was the most consequential for Montana’s elections since his first legislative session in 2011.
Representatives from the Apsáalooke Nation met with state officials earlier this month to request a compact that would allow the tribe to participate in Montana's recreational marijuana industry on its own terms.
Gov. Greg Gianforte is objecting to a U.S. government proposal to alter water releases from a huge reservoir in northeastern Montana to help an ancient and endangered fish species — the dinosaur-like pallid sturgeon.
Lawmakers will be polled on whether to override eight vetoes issued by Gov. Greg Gianforte after they adjourned the legislative session last month
Montana’s Attorney General has been roped into a Colstrip Power Plant lawsuit for his new role as maintenance enforcer under laws created by the Montana Legislature.
"This is a good start to criminal justice reform in the sense of meaningful and uniform sentencing," Rep. Jimmy Patelis, R-Billings, said.
Gov. Greg Gianforte indicated in his veto letter that he believed the fees in HB 188 were too high.