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BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana dropped his bid for reelection to a third term in a surprise withdrawal just minutes before a Wednesday filing deadline for candidates.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana dropped his bid for reelection to a third term in a surprise withdrawal just minutes before a Wednesday filing deadline for candidates.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana dropped his bid for reelection to a third term Wednesday.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Former University of Montana President Seth Bodnar is launching an independent campaign to challenge Republican Sen. Steve Daines in November, after Democrats in the state lost elections in recent years.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Ryan Zinke, a Montana Republican who served as interior secretary during President Donald Trump's first administration, said Monday that he will not seek reelection to a fifth term in the U.S. House, citing health concerns.
President Donald Trump has nominated for director of the National Park Service an executive from a hospitality company that holds extensive contracts with the agency he would lead.
Colorado's attorney general accused the Trump administration on Thursday of waging a "revenge campaign" by choking off funds and ending federal programs over the state's refusal to accede to the Republican president's demands to free an imprisoned elections clerk.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Federal officials rejected a mining company's bid for 1.3 million tons of coal beneath a national forest in Utah, marking the third proposed coal sale from public lands in the West to fall through this month.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit from young climate activists seeking to block President Donald Trump's executive orders promoting fossil fuels and discouraging renewable energy.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Federal officials rejected a company's bid to acquire 167 million tons of coal on public lands in Montana for less than a penny per ton, in what would have been the biggest U.S. government coal sale in more than a decade.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that put conservation on equal footing with development, as President Donald Trump's administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Wednesday proposed canceling a public land management rule that elevated the importance of conservation, as President Donald Trump's administration seeks to open more taxpayer-owned tracts to drilling, logging, mining and grazing.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Republican lawmakers in Congress are clearing the way for President Donald Trump's plans to expand mining and drilling on public lands by moving to eliminate energy development limits in several Western states.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- More than 2 million acres of federal lands would be sold or transferred to states or other entities under a budget proposal from Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, reviving a longtime ambition of Western conservatives to cede lands to local control after a similar proposal failed in the House.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana man was sentenced to four years of probation on Wednesday for threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy after becoming upset with the government for not shooting down a Chinese spy balloon that floated over the defendant's home city.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana man faces years in prison at his Wednesday sentencing for threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy after becoming upset with the government for not shooting down a Chinese spy balloon that floated over the defendant's home city.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate confirmed Doug Burgum as interior secretary late Thursday after President Donald Trump tapped the North Dakota billionaire to spearhead the Republican administration's ambitions to boost fossil fuel production.
Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is due before a Senate committee Thursday as lawmakers consider the Republican's nomination to be chief steward of U.S. public lands and waters.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A senior official in President Joe Biden's administration who oversaw its contentious efforts to address climate change by curbing oil drilling on federal lands while expanding renewable power was named Tuesday as the next president of a prominent environmental group.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Democrats' crushing loss in Montana's nationally important U.S. Senate race settled a fierce political debate over whether a surge of newcomers in the past decade favored Republicans -- and if one of the new arrivals could even take high office.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Republican Tim Sheehy bolstered the GOP's Senate majority with a victory over three-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester in a contest of national importance that featured a record-setting torrent of spending by the two sides.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Republican Tim Sheehy defeated three-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. The victory by the former U.S. Navy SEAL bolsters the GOP's new Senate majority.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Three-term incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana faces perhaps his toughest reelection challenge yet on Tuesday, with control of the Senate on the line in a state that's veered sharply rightward since the 68-year-old grain farmer's first election.
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- After 18 years working to topple Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, Republicans in Big Sky Country see potential victory and control of the Senate majority within their grasp in an increasingly acrimonious contest that's shattering campaign spending records.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A former Park Service ranger said Friday that U.S. Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy of Montana has been lying about a bullet wound that the candidate said came from fighting in Afghanistan -- going public with an accusation that has nagged the Republican's campaign for months.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- During an October debate, Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy took a shot at his Democratic opponent, Sen. Jon Tester, for " eating lobbyist steak ? while the Republican fought in Afghanistan.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- A Montana man was convicted Wednesday of threatening to assault former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy after becoming upset that the government had not shot down a Chinese spy balloon that floated over his home city.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy acknowledged Monday that derogatory remarks he made last year about Native Americans were "insensitive." But Sheehy rejected his opponent's call to apologize, during a contentious debate in a race that's emerged as pivotal for control of the Senate.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy acknowledged Monday that derogatory remarks he made last year about Native Americans were "insensitive." But Sheehy rejected his opponent's call to apologize, during a contentious debate in a race that's emerged as pivotal for control of the Senate.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy acknowledged Monday that derogatory remarks he made last year about Native Americans were "insensitive." But Sheehy rejected his opponent's call to apologize, during a contentious debate in a race that's emerged as pivotal for control of the Senate.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Native Americans living on a remote Montana reservation filed a lawsuit against state and county officials Monday saying they don't have enough places to vote in person -- the latest chapter in a decades-long struggle by tribes in the United States over equal voting opportunities.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Native Americans living on a remote Montana reservation filed a lawsuit against state and county officials Monday saying they don't have enough places to vote in person -- the latest chapter in a decades-long struggle by tribes in the United States over equal voting opportunities.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- U.S. Sen. Jon Tester of Montana is fighting to hold on to his seat and prevent a Republican takeover of the Senate as the three-term lawmaker faces GOP challenger Tim Sheehy in a Monday night debate.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Tribal leaders in Montana urged Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy to apologize over remarks he made to supporters about Native Americans being "drunk at 8 a.m." and throwing beer cans at him on the Crow Reservation
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Tribal leaders in Montana urged Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy to apologize over remarks he made to supporters about Native Americans being "drunk at 8 a.m." and throwing beer cans at him on the Crow Reservation
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Montana Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ryan Busse provided 10 years of income tax records on Tuesday as he sought to goad Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte into debating him ahead of the November election.
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- Donald Trump traveled to Montana for a Friday night rally intended to drum up support for ousting the state's Democratic senator, but the former president's plane first had to divert to an airport on the other side of the Rocky Mountains because of a mechanical issue, according to airport staff.
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- Former President Donald Trump headed to Montana for a Friday night rally in hopes of ousting the state's Democratic senator, but his plane first had to divert to an airport on the other side of the Rocky Mountains because of a mechanical issue, according to airport staff.
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) -- With control of the Senate potentially at stake, Donald Trump is visiting Montana on Friday hoping to remedy some unfinished business from 2018, when he campaigned repeatedly in Big Sky Country in a failed bid to oust incumbent Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy embraced his status as an outsider who came to Montana to start a business as he sought on Sunday to fend off concerns over wealthy newcomers driving up property taxes during the first debate in a contest that could tip the balance of power in the Senate.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy embraced his status as an outsider who came to Montana to start a business as he sought on Sunday to fend off concerns over wealthy newcomers driving up property taxes during the first debate in a contest that could tip the balance of power in the Senate.
COLSTRIP, Mont. (AP) -- Actions by President Joe Biden's administration that could hasten closures of heavily polluting coal power plants and the mines that supply them are reviving Republican rhetoric about a so-called "war on coal" ahead of the November election.