Lt. Governor Mike Cooney was in Mexico last week to meet with some of the country’s largest brewers who, he says, feel shaken up over recent trade policy changes in the U.S.

The CEO of one of Missoula’s most successful tech companies was sitting around the dinner table with his kids when he saw video clips on YouTube of President Donald Trump's rally at the Missoula airport on October 18 . The president praised Congressman Greg Gianforte for assaulting a journalist last year. “Any guy that can do a body-slam, he’s my kind of ... he’s my guy.”

On a recent evening in the remote reaches of the North Fork Road on the northwest side of Glacier National Park, a couple of candidates for the state legislature were debating in Sondreson Hall. It’s an old log building heated by an oil drum wood stove where the lights run off a gas generator and the outhouse is ten steps into the woods.

On the eve of President Trump’s fourth visit to Montana since July to campaign against Sen. Jon Tester, the Defense Department says it is continuing to investigate charges of professional misconduct by Rear Admiral Ronny L. Jackson.

The former president of Planned Parenthood nationwide joined U.S. Senator Jon Tester in Bozeman, Thursday afternoon, to continue the Democrat’s effort to energize his voting base five days before the midterm election.

A nearly three-month-long lockout involving 35 workers at a Three Forks-area talc milling plant is over. The union employees of the French-owned Imerys Talc America will be back on the job Monday. The talc-mill lockout may be over, but according to Randy Tocci, divisions in Three Forks continue and run deep.

Updated at 6:00 p.m. with expanded copy and a follow-up interview with Rick Breckenridge. 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. Here’s what Libertarian Rick Breckenridge said. "Honestly I'm not going to take the seat, and I think today that Matt Rosendale is going to be the best person to fulfill that obligation and that role, and so I'm here today to support Matt in his candidacy,

A Montana Assistant U.S. Attorney will serve as the state’s Election Officer for the November 6 general election. That means Brendan McCarthy will oversee the District of Montana’s handling of allegations of election fraud and voting rights abuse.

UPDATED: At 3:17pm, with audio above In Montana's tightly contested U.S. Senate race Libertarian candidate Rick Breckenridge is now endorsing Republican Matt Rosendale. That could make a difference as Democratic incumbent Senator Jon Tester is in a neck and neck battle for re-election with Rosendale.

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. Helena voter Kathryn QannaYahu got concerned this week when she checked in on how long it took for local election officials to get her ballot after she’d dropped it in the mail.