Great Falls is an outlier among large Montana cities, most of which long ago banned or limited the use of fireworks inside city limits year-round. The current city code in Great Falls allows fireworks from July 2 through July 4 from 8 a.m. to midnight.

Voters in cities and towns across Montana will elect municipal leaders and decide local ballot measures Nov. 4. These are the races and issues MTFP’s staff is keeping an eye

Constitutional Initiative 131 would require district court, Supreme Court elections to be nonpartisan; groups say rewritten wording suggests the opposite

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The heightened attention on the ballot initiative process comes after Montanans legalized recreational cannabis and enshrined in the state's constitution the explicit right to abortions before the fetus is viable.

The coalition looks to push back against lawmakers who have attempted to add political affiliations to judicial candidates.

Two campaigns are separately working on constitutional amendments to preserve Montana's nonpartisan judicial races. Last week, one of those groups was cleared to gather signatures ahead of 2026.

Montana's top federal prosecutor is urging voters to tread carefully before voting to legalize recreational marijuana, taking the unusual step of jumping into a political debate about a ballot initiative in the weeks before the election.

Republican President Donald Trump's re-election campaign sued the Democratic governor of Montana on Wednesday in an attempt to halt an expansion of mail-in voting in the run up to November's election.

Voting equipment company Dominion Voting Systems, a target of false conspiracy theories since the 2020 election, has been bought by a firm run by a former Republican elections official.

Turning Point USA held a memorial tour event at Montana State University featuring Gov. Greg Gianforte and Vivek Ramaswamy honoring Charlie Kirk.