U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke and Superintendent Denise Juneau made fewer mentions of their party’s presidential candidates in their second debate Thursday night and instead reserved their critiques for each other as they played to a rambunctious crowd.
HELENA — Helena teacher Melissa Romano, who announced her intent last year to run as a Democrat for superintendent of public instruction, made her candidacy official Monday by filing with the Secretary of State's office.
The Yellowstone County Elections Office on Friday sent out ballots for the Billings City Council election. The deadline for having those ballots marked, returned and counted at the Yellowstone County Elections Office is 8 p.m. Nov. 3. The Billings Gazette sent questionnaires to each candidat…
Billings City Council incumbents Brent Cromley, Becky Bird and Ken Crouch all survived Tuesday’s primary and will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot.
Fifty years after the Voting Rights Act, there’s still work to be done to ensure voting freedoms, Montana Secretary of State Linda McCulloch said Thursday.
HELENA — More than four in five Montana residents who requested absentee ballots had returned them by mid-afternoon Tuesday.
Jim Ronquillo talks with the Gazette's editorial board on why he should be elected to Yellowstone County Commissioner.
Editor’s note: This is part of the Gazette’s coverage on contested Yellowstone County races in the Nov. 4 election.
Editor’s note: This is part of the Gazette’s coverage on contested Yellowstone County races in the Nov. 4 election.
In past primaries, long lines causing big headaches have been enough to deter some Billings residents from casting a ballot.
LAUREL — Laurel voters will mark their ballots June 3 to decide whether residents want the certainty of funding — and the property tax hike — that comes through a park maintenance district.
HELENA — The Montana Supreme Court on Monday gave those challenging Lawrence VanDyke’s eligibility to run for a justice seat one week to respond to VanDyke's petition asking the court to take over the case.
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Yellowstone County voter turnout Tuesday was among the highest for a primary election in the county, with about 34,000 voters, or 38 percent of the number of registered voters, casting ballots, election administrator Bret Rutherford said early Wednesday.
Yellowstone County Clerk and Recorder Jeff Martin had a strong lead over primary challenger Clay Schwartz late Tuesday night and appeared headed toward retaining his job for another two years.
With just one day left to vote in the primary election, Mae Woo wanted her Billings neighbors on Monday to know there was still time to join the Ron Paul revolution.
Two Billings Democrats who are friends and share similar views are running for Republican Brad Molnar’s open seat on the Montana Public Service Commission.
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Billings will have a new library. By a margin of nearly 57 to 43 percent, Billings voters approved a $16 million bond to build a new Parmly Billings Library
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Billings City Council candidates answered questions asked by the Gazette's editorial board.
Montana Democrats broke campaign disclosure laws in 2008 by using anonymous phone calls against a Billings Republican legislative candidate, the state’s political practices commissioner has ruled.
Three more candidates entered the Billings City Council race Thursday, the last day on which candidates could file.
HELENA — State Sen. Kim Gillan, D-Billings, on Tuesday jumped into the race for Montana's open U.S. House seat in 2012, saying she want to take her bipartisan problem-solving leadership skills to Congress to deliver results for Montana.