Flight reductions at regional hubs are disrupting some Montana airports.

Election staff say they were able to work with voters to remedy many of the rejections, caused both by existing signature requirements and a new year-of-birth requirement for mailed ballots added this year by the Montana Legislature.

In Billings, the state’s largest city in the state’s largest county, about 200 votes decided the 30,000-vote race for mayor this week.

Anaconda, Hardin, Butte and Boulder say they want to host a new women’s prison, a $250 million project that will be paid for by the Legislature’s roughly $436 million allocation toward expanded prison facilities across Montana.

In the span of 48 hours, Major and Michelle Robinson’s downtown Helena business went from preparing for its busiest holiday season to trying to survive a national political firestorm.

Mayor Cory Reeves also won a decisive re-election in Tuesday's municipal election.

Missoula Mayor Andrea Davis won her first full four-year term. Three of the four council candidates endorsed by the Western Montana Democratic Socialists of America chapter lost their races. The countywide infrastructure mill levy also failed.

Emily Dean, a current city commissioner, defeated Andy Shirtliff by just 203 votes. In the race for two seats on the Helena city commission, incumbent Melinda Reed and candidate Ben Rigby soundly defeated candidates Haley McKnight and Shawn White Wolf.

Montana SNAP users may see some financial aid for groceries on their electronic benefits cards this month — but not the full amount they typically expect, and probably not right away.

MTFP local reporters are on the ground in Great Falls, Missoula and Helena. We’re also monitoring results in Billings, Bozeman and Kalispell. Polls close at 8 p.m.

Take extra care driving on twisty roads around lakes and over mountain passes.

A conservative college activist captured audio of a librarian defending a book featuring a same sex teen romance and a teacher lamenting art censorship. The clips went viral, inspiring legislation and debate.

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A Helena city commission candidate left a phone message for Montana Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Sheehy, wishing that he contract pancreatic cancer and “die in the street like a dog,” according to a national news outlet's coverage.

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There’s still time to register and vote if you haven’t yet filled out a ballot in the Nov. 4 local elections being held in many parts of Montana.

Pre-K classroom programs across Montana showed promise in their first year. Out of the 2,025 students across the state who participated, 57% learned enough in the program to no longer be eligible for it.

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The groups argue that without a plan in place, Montana’s environmental regulator is ‘flying blind’ to the detriment of state waters.

As the federal government shutdown and ongoing litigation put the nation’s main federal food support program in limbo, local governments, groups and individuals across Montana are hustling to prevent hunger from gripping thousands of households in November.

The most expensive race on a Montana ballot this fall isn’t about candidates; it’s about water and rent.

Missoula leaders praise its TIF program for helping to revitalize the city; others maintain taxpayers are paying more than their fair share.

Welborn will take the place of Brad Molnar, who was demoted by fellow commissioners last week in another 3-2 vote.

A group of Montana doctors and nurses is suing the national company that runs a rigorous, often mandatory monitoring program for health care providers struggling with addiction.

Initiative backers say they plan to challenge the decision in court.

While the shutdown has led to some canceled vacations, locals say they are worried about the long-term health of the National Park Service.

The facility is still under a boil order and providing bottled water for drinking.

After the state intervened to trap about 100 swine demonstrating feral behaviors, Montana food banks are slated to receive an influx of pork this week.

This fall’s municipal elections will give Montana voters their first encounter with a new requirement to provide their birth year on the back of mail-in ballot envelopes alongside the previously required signature line.

Toby’s House in Great Falls is set to expand and continue providing an option for parents that goes beyond typical child supervision.

A months-long dispute gripping the Northern Cheyenne Tribe centers around who is in charge and a controversial election that excludes women candidates scheduled for Oct. 30 is only causing more confusion.

Montana has among the highest small aircraft crash rates by population in the nation — ranked third behind Alaska and Wyoming, according to an MTFP analysis of aviation data kept by National Transportation Safety Board.

Mayor Jeff McBirnie resigned this week amid public backlash over his public Facebook message that read, ‘I’m ANTIFA’ and insulted President Trump.

Russell Cleveland and Matt Rains are both running to be the Democratic candidate in the district that the party sees as its best chance to win a federal race next year.

The campaign of a Republican running for Illinois governor says four members of the man's family were killed in a helicopter crash in Montana.

As the federal shutdown drags on, the Fort Belknap Head Start program is scrambling to secure the funding necessary to keep its doors open.

A Great Falls city commission candidate has suggested that the city's unhoused population could be served by putting them in a single location as a money-making venture.

The Montana Public Service Commission voted 3-2 to demote Brad Molnar, who had been the commission’s president. He’ll continue to serve as commissioner. He and his four colleagues vote on a replacement Tuesday, Oct. 28.

More than 77,000 Montanans — and potentially 41 million Americans — could lose access to a food assistance program beginning in November if the federal government shutdown continues.

A Helena business has filed a lawsuit against the city of Helena, alleging that the work of a committee leading efforts to hire a new city manager has violated Montana's open meeting laws.

A panel of judges at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared skeptical of plaintiffs’ claims that BNSF Railway is liable for past contamination at its rail yard site.

The Montana Land Board has approved a 53,000-acre conservation easement in the Cabinet Mountains of northwest Montana that will protect public access to working timberland owned by Green Diamond Resource Company.

During an all-day summit cohosted by the Montana Chamber of Commerce and Gov. Greg Gianforte, energy experts waded into the rise in electricity demand and proposals for Montana projects that could help meet that need.

BNSF Railway is appealing a 2024 jury verdict that found the company liable for the toxic conditions of its rail yard. Judges will consider arguments this week with a potential impact on hundreds of pending cases.

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to consider an appeal of a corner-crossing case that’s been closely watched by public land hunters and landowner groups throughout the West.

Backers of two ballot initiatives calling for nonpartisan elections for Montana courts are suing Attorney General Austin Knudsen for editing their ballot language.

Voters will weigh in on keeping their mayor, elect a majority of the city council and decide on a county infrastructure bond.

A pair of lawsuits with opposing aims seek to overturn wolf regulations.

With growing membership rolls, Missoula’s Democratic Socialists of America chapter is fielding four city council candidates on the November ballot.

Helena voters will pick a (semi) new set of government leaders on the Nov. 4 all-mail ballot, featuring races for Helena mayor and two commissioner positions up for election this year.