Flathead Beacon opinion columnist John McCaslin is a longtime journalist and author. He lives in Bigfork. He was Montana’s ...

Republican Tim Sheehy has defeated three-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester. The victory by the former U.S. Navy SEAL bolsters the GOP’s new Senate majority. Sheehy closely aligned his campaign ...

The one topic that I would like to hear about would be that Mr. Tim Sheehy comes forward to clarify his previous ... on and helps sustain local independent journalism in northwest Montana. Please ...

The popular "Yellowstone" TV series, set and filmed in Montana, taps into a lesser-known chapter of the state's history: its ...

The popular “Yellowstone” TV series, set and filmed in Montana, taps into a lesser-known chapter of the state’s history: its settlement by Confederates and ex-Confederates during and after the Civil ...

Split outcomes between presidential and Senate results saw a resurgence in 2024, as at least four Donald Trump-won states sent Democrats to the Senate.— Republicans still took the majority in the ...

Republicans’ primary intervention strategy propelled them to a majority, but they failed to flip four battlegrounds that ...

I say it all the time, I’m dying to get back to do this. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education,” ...

County-level analysis of voter trends showed that most of the nation’s counties shifted to the right compared to 2020. In ...

Senator-elect Tim Sheehy of Montana, a Republican. After leaving his active-duty career in the Navy in 2014, Montana ...

Montana not only went enthusiastically for Trump for a third time, but took the last statewide seat held by a Democrat. Senator Jon Tester's defeat caps a years-long quest to erase purple from Montana ...

A Tester ad labels Sheehy a “fake cowboy” and attacks him for lying about a bullet wound in his arm. At a weekend Tester rally in Bozeman, Montana — where Sheehy in August held an event with ...