Preparations are underway in Gallatin County for President Donald Trump’s fourth visit to Montana since July tomorrow. Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton is planning to testify before a legislative committee later this month about two contracts his office awarded. A U.S. Senator who advocates for selling off federal public lands is in Montana campaigning for Senate hopeful Republican Matt Rosendale today.

A Montana Assistant U.S. Attorney will serve as the state’s Election Officer for the November 6 th general election. Yellowstone National Park officials soon will close most of the park's entrances to prepare for the winter season. Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton is telling county election officials to keep tabs on foreign election observers invited to monitor U.S. elections.

This morning, the libertarian candidate in the race for Montana’s U.S. Senate seat told reporters he’s endorsing Republican Matt Rosendale in that race. This week, Butte locals will get an up close look at what the city’s major creek corridors could look like in the future, once the Superfund cleanup is finished. Locked-out union workers have approved a three-year contract with the owners of a Three Forks talc-milling plant after 90 days on the picket lines.

Montana voters who have not yet mailed in their absentee ballot are out of time to do so and county election officials now suggest hand delivering ballots to make sure they are counted. Police destroyed items left outside a Billings television station that resembled a bomb Monday night. The University of Montana has confirmed that former White House strategist Steve Bannon is scheduled to appear in person at a conference taking place at the university in December.

President Donald Trump has confirmed he’ll visit Montana one more time Saturday, to spur his conservative base, three days before the midterm election, at a rally at Bozeman Yellowstone International airport. Senator Tester is making three campaign stops today. Minnesota-based Cordillera Communications is selling all 16 of its television stations, including nine in Montana.

A record-smashing $60 million in campaign donations and outside spending has gone into Montana's contentious U.S. Senate race as Democrats seek to hold on to the seat in a Trump-leaning state. Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton is firing back at Attorney General Tim Fox for saying Stapleton needlessly hired a Republican political consultant's wife to represent him instead of using lawyers from the attorney general's office.

Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton is facing new criticism for awarding an additional state contract to his political allies. An attorney for a reporter assaulted by U.S. Representative Greg Gianforte has sent a cease-and-desist letter warning the Republican congressman not to lie about the attack as he campaigns for re-election. The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission has approved pursuing the purchase of nearly 5,000 acres of the Big Belt Mountains southeast of Helena for the state's

The company that won a $265,000 contract to send mailers fixing mistakes in Montana's election guide is owned by a Republican political consultant and former head of the state GOP. A Republican National Committee official says a recent mailer unintentionally included an error about Montana's absentee ballot deadline. A newly released poll says Republican Greg Gianforte has a seven point lead over Democrat Kathleen Williams in the race for Montana’s lone seat in the U.S. House.

A tobacco company has dumped nearly $5 million more into the campaign to defeat a Montana ballot initiative in the final weeks before the Nov. 6 election. A federal program for tribes to access national crime information databases is expanding. The head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which has spent nearly $5 million to influence the outcome of Montana U.S. Senate race, stumped on behalf of Matt Rosendale in Montana Tuesday during a get-out-the vote tour.

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is suing the state's attorney general over whether the Democratic governor has the authority to unilaterally approve conservation easements. Donald Trump Jr. and former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle plan an eight-stop bus tour through Montana this weekend to campaign on behalf of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Matt Rosendale and incumbent Congressman Greg Gianforte. Crews resumed searching today for a 77-year-old Florence man who went missing southeast of