After the election, many took note of some seemingly unusual patterns in the presidential and Senate voting. Some winning Democrats in states that voted for Donald Trump, for instance, received fewer ...

Eight members of the U.S. Senate did not run for re-election, more than in any year since 2012. This was one of eight open races for the U.S. Senate in 2024 where an incumbent did not run for ...

After 18 years working to topple Montana Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, Republicans in Big Sky Country see potential victory and control of the Senate majority within their grasp in an increasin ...

Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde has conceded defeat in the race narrowly won by Democratic Sen. Tammy ...

John Thune’s victory on a secret-ballot continued the long tradition, in both parties, of elevating small-state senators to ...

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

Sen. John Thune has won an internal election among Republican senators to become the chamber’s next majority leader ...

The race for the next U.S. Senate Majority Leader is over. And the winner is a man who grew up in Murdo, South Dakota. South ...

Thune, who is 63 and in his fourth Senate term, has promised to work closely with President-elect Donald Trump despite ...

Thune beat out two other competitors, Sens. John Cornyn and Rick Scott, by gaining majority support from GOP senators in a ...

“This Republican team is united behind President Trump’s agenda ... Thune will be majority leader for the next two years ...

Election day has come and gone ... Republicans had a decisive night across Montana and won all federal and state races, but Gallatin County proved to be an island of blue in a sea of red.