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Local lawmakers returning home after the 68th Legislative Session are describing it as a success, specifically in regard to improving infrastructure, investing in health care and providing tax relief, despite the often hectic pace and other challenges.

Rep. Alice Buckley’s Best Beginnings Scholarship expansion to provide relief for lower-income Montanans seeking child care options is headed to the governor’s desk after a final bipartisan vote in the Senate on Friday.

PLUS: “You’re big enough — you should go to work too.”

“I just wish we were doing this out on the floor of the Senate, where God and everybody could see it,” said Sen. John Esp, R-Big Timber, in response to

Two fundraising events displaying legislative bipartisanship are planned in the next few days to help a quadriplegic state worker purchase a vehicle that will give him some freedom and independence.

Renewed efforts to restrict the ability of third-party and independent candidates to make the ballot ahead of Montana’s 2024 U.S. Senate race stalled just as they began Monday with little explanation.

Plus: The refusal to recognize heard round the country

A similar proposal concerning ballot qualifications for third parties fared the same.

A dramatic overhaul of Montana’s election calendar appears to be dead after a bipartisan panel of lawmakers unanimously voted it down Friday morning.

"A pass is a pass," said Sen. Jonathan Windy Boy, who sponsored the bill.