The middle class is often a forgotten segment of the population, says Sen. Mike Yakawich, a Billings Republican.

Two proposals by GOP leaders in legislature would expand the lower tax bracket to encompass middle class, while governor continues touting ‘historic’ top-down approach.

Lawmakers are focused on Medicaid expansion, which provides healthcare coverage to roughly 76,000 adults. It will sunset in June unless the Montana Legislature decides to reauthorize it. Find latest u ...

Bills advance to make Medicaid enrollment easier for seniors, children and adults with disabilities. Opponents flag potential costs to taxpayers as cause for concern.

Update: Tuesday, February 11 SB 62, the legislative proposal to phase out Medicaid expansion in Montana, failed to advance in the Senate on Tuesday ... One lawmaker, Sen. Mike Yakawich from Billings, ...

Sen. Mike Yakawich, R-Billings, compares the state’s purchase of overdose reversal drugs like naloxone from companies that have contributed to the opioid crisis to “paying the arsonist to put out his ...

Montana legislators are pushing for changes to DUI laws— laws that Rep. Braxton Mitchell, R-Columbia Falls, calls a national embarrassment.

Allegations of criminal activity by former Montana Senate leader Jason Ellsworth are being handed over to the state Department of Justice following a heated Thursday floor debate in the Senate ...

The Montana Senate will conduct an ethics investigation into a $170,100 government contract brokered late last year by former Senate President Jason Ellsworth with his business associate.