U.S. Senate

Montana Senator Steve Daines introduced a bill in the Senate on Thursday that addresses the reopening of public lands that had been locked up for over 35 years as Wilderness Study Areas.

The proposed tax cut law being debated in the U.S. Senate could cause problems for university students and large donors.

In a U.S. Senate Committee hearing on Thursday morning, Montana Senator Steve Daines mourned the deaths of two wildland firefighters in the Missoula area in the last two weeks.

Dr. and Montana State Senator Albert Olszewski of Whitefish was recently chosen to be Montana's project leader to improve delivery of rural healthcare at the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Symposium on Rural Healthcare Challenges in Denver.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox is continuing he effort along with other state leaders to address the problem of substance abuse in the state, with the next step in his AID Montana program, listening sessions around the state.

Kalispell State Senator and orthopedic surgeon Dr. Alan Olszewski has announced his intention to run for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2018.

State Senator and orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Albert Olszewski from Kalispell is the first to declare his intention to run for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 2018.

Former Montana Senator Conrad Burns died yesterday at his home in Billings of natural causes. The Republican lawmaker was 81, and served three terms in the U.S. Senate before being defeated in 2006 by Democrat Jon Tester.

Montana's former U.S. Senator and now Ambassador to China, Max Baucus, addressed nearly 3,000 students, families and friends at the 2015 University of Montana Commencement in Washington Grizzly Stadium on Saturday, May 16.

The Montana Democratic Party chose Butte schoolteacher, and first-term state legislator Amanda Curtis on Saturday morning as their candidate for the U.S. Senate.