HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Board of State Canvassers certified the November election results Monday, showing a record number of votes were cast in the state.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The secretary of state wants the Montana Supreme Court to block a judge's ruling that extends the deadline for county election offices to accept 2020 general election ballots...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s secretary of state has filed notice that he plans to appeal a court ruling that extended the deadline for county elections offices to accept 2020 general election...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A recent review of Montana's voter registration system found that there were nearly 500 deceased people still on the voter rolls, but no evidence that any of them had voted,...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Another effort to restore Montana Green Party candidates to the general election ballot has been denied, officials said Monday.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana’s 2020 general election ballot has been certified without Green Party candidates, for now.

Secretary of State Corey Stapleton’s certification, sent to counties...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Efforts are underway in state and federal court to restore Green Party of Montana candidates to the state's general election ballot just days after a state judge disqualified...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Seven of the eight candidates running for Montana’s lone U.S. House seat are scheduled to participate in a virtual debate on Saturday.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton plans to wait for more information about the coronavirus outbreak before deciding whether to change to the state's June 2 primary...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — President Donald Trump tweeted an endorsement Wednesday for state Auditor Matt Rosendale, who is running in the Republican primary for Montana's U.S. House seat....

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Bowen Greenwood, the clerk of Montana's Supreme Court, says he's running for secretary of state in 2020.

Lee Newspapers of Montana reports Greenwood is the fourth...

The Billings Gazette, Oct. 15, on Secretary of State Corey Stapleton's vehicle use:

Secretary of State Corey Stapleton's misuse of a state-leased pickup truck was even more blatantly...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A top aide to Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton has filed to run for her boss's job next year.

Chief of Staff Christi Jacobsen, a Republican, filed her...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Former Montana Republican Party chairwoman and ex-state legislator Debra Lamm has filed paperwork to run for Montana's open U.S. House seat.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Secretary of State's Office has decided how to distribute $750,000 in federal grant money to upgrade voting equipment across the state's 56 counties.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana secretary of state has pushed back the timeline to roll out a new election system.

The Independent Record reported Monday that Secretary of State Corey...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — State Rep. Forrest Mandeville of Columbus is seeking the Republican nomination for secretary of state.

Mandeville said Wednesday he's a strong advocate for secure and...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Steve Daines of Montana says he collected over $1.3 million for his 2020 re-election campaign during the most recent fundraising period.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana's secretary of state has decided not to appeal a court decision that blocked him from putting into law a bill that was vetoed by Gov. Steve Bullock.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Helena Police Department is investigating Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton's use of a state vehicle to travel to his family home in Billings.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana's deputy secretary of state told a legislative committee Wednesday that Secretary of State Corey Stapleton used a state vehicle to travel to his family home in...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on an audit of travel by the Montana Secretary of State (all times local):

2:30 p.m.

The deputy secretary of state told lawmakers Secretary of State...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A third Republican has filed to run for Montana's U.S. House seat left open by Rep. Greg Gianforte's decision to run governor.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton misused a state vehicle to drive home to Billings on weekends, at a cost of more than $5,700, an audit found.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Greg GIanforte is running for the Republican nomination for Montana governor next year.

This will be the 58-year-old Bozeman businessman's second gubernatorial...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on a dispute over a vetoed Montana bill (all times local):

4:50 p.m.

A Helena judge says Montana's secretary of state does not have the authority to...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana judge will hear arguments in a dispute between Gov. Steve Bullock and Secretary of State Corey Stapleton on whether Bullock's veto of a bison bill was...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A constitutional dispute between Montana's Democratic governor and Republican secretary of state escalated on Friday when a judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton attempted Wednesday to overrule Gov. Steve Bullock's veto of a bill by saying the governor did not deliver it to his office in time,...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Democratic state senator from Missoula says he's running for Montana secretary of state in next year's election.

Bryce Bennett's announcement Wednesday makes him the...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Seventy-one Montana elected officials will get pay raises this summer to match the average salaries of their counterparts in neighboring states.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Republican candidate for Montana governor is looking to take a fast-food chicken restaurant chain under his wing after the owners' anti-gay rights stance cost it new...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Republican U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte says he's considering another run for Montana governor in 2020.

The second-term congressman lost to the incumbent, Democratic Gov....

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Attorney General Tim Fox has raised more than $200,000 since the Republican announced his candidacy for governor.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana Senate President Scott Sales is running for secretary of state after 16 years in the Legislature.

The Republican from Bozeman said Monday that he has filed...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Secretary of State Corey Stapleton has been fined $4,000 for using state resources to announce he was seeking the Republican nomination for governor in 2020, a state official said Monday.

Stapleton used state facilities, equipment, supplies and personnel to make his campaign announcement on Jan. 2, said Jeff Mangan, the commissioner of political practices. He was fined the maximum of $1,000 for each of four violations.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on the race for Montana governor (all times local):

10:45 a.m.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox says it's the right time for a conservative Republican to take over as governor — and that he's that candidate.

The two-term attorney general touted his conservative credentials in an interview with The Associated Press Thursday as he announced his candidacy for the open seat in 2020.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A magistrate judge has denied Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton's request to throw out a ballot-access lawsuit by the Montana Green Party and its supporters.

U.S. Magistrate Judge John Johnston rejected Stapleton's motion to dismiss and ordered a December bench trial in the case after a court hearing on Tuesday.

The Green Party alleges that Montana's qualification requirements for minor political parties are unconstitutionally burdensome.