After a vote last week to suspend the Senate Ethics Committee and refer an investigation into Sen. Ellsworth to the DOJ, questions remain about path forward.

Opinion: The Montana Senate has always prided itself on its decorum. An almost cloying genteelness is expected. Until this session, I guess. Last Thursday decorum on the Senate floor once ...

The Montana Senate stepped into a couple of ethical messes this session, but the lawmaker at the heart of the issue appears to be holding onto his seat just fine.

We have to make sure that … the football was handed off to us correctly,” Attorney General Austin Knudsen said. “That’s my ...

Columnist Darrell Ehrlick wonders why former Senate President Jason Ellsworth is being defended by Senate Democrats.

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 ...

Jason Ellsworth threatened members of his own party with disruption of the Montana Senate in his failed bid to retain the office of Senate president, according to multiple Republican senators.

Before Sen. Jason Ellsworth faced allegations of misconduct for signing a $170,000 state contract with his business associate, Bryce Eggleston, the senator from Hamilton pitched Eggleston as a potenti ...

Before Sen. Jason Ellsworth quietly tried shepherding a $170,000 state-funded contract for his longtime business associate, ...

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 ...

The atmosphere on the Montana Senate floor was much quieter Friday than it had been Thursday, a day after a fierce debate ...