State senators chose to override Lieutenant Governor Larry Rhoden and indefinitely suspend Sen. Julie Frye-Mueller (R-Rapid City) because of alleged conduct towards a legislative staffer.
Sen. Julie Frye-Mueller (R-Rapid City) is responding for the first time after being stripped of her committee assignments by Senate leadership Wednesday.
On this week’s Matters of the State, we take a closer look the latest developments from the legislative session, including a bill aimed at banning transitional health care for transgender minors.
Gov. Kristi Noem’s personal cell phone number has been hacked and used to make hoax calls. A press release shared from Noem's office Monday reported that she had no involvement in the calls.
One of the most contentious topics in the South Dakota state legislature over the course of the last year will be taken up for debate once again on Monday, after lawmakers invoked an obscure rule to stop debate on the bill for a day.
State Rep. Will Mortenson (R-Pierre), the Majority Leader of the South Dakota State House, says he will allow remote testimony in the House State Affairs committee on a “case by case” basis. Mortenson previously said that remote testimony would not be allowed in House State Affairs, and urged other House committee chairs to take the same approach.
A Texas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a romance scam in which women from across the nation were cheated out of a total of about $1.6 million by someone often pretending to be a U.S. Army general.
Sen. John Wiik (R-Big Stone City) was chosen to be the next chair of the South Dakota Republican party, and Rep. Mary Fitzgerald (R-St. Onge) was chosen to be the next vice-chair.
Changes to the South Dakota Republican Party’s bylaws would significantly limit the influence that local activists across the state have on selecting nominees for higher office.
SB 41 cleans up language from a bill passed by the legislature in 2022, which would allow $200 million in public dollars to go out to support workforce housing developments.
Johnson, 60, went from a political outsider to the state’s top election official in just a few months. Now, she says she is focused on trying to pass a post-election audit bill during her first few years in office.
Governor Kristi Noem has said multiple times she has no intentions of running for president. However, her tone and approach have changed more recently.
During the annual State of the Judiciary Address Wednesday, South Dakota Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven Jensen came out hard against a proposal to give “diploma privilege” to University of South Dakota School of Law graduates.
Kevin Jensen is exiting the race for South Dakota Republican Party chair and endorsing former state lawmaker Tom Brunner, who confirmed his candidacy Monday.
Kristi Noem, the 33rd Governor of South Dakota and the state’s first female governor in the state’s history, officially took the oath of office to begin her second term Saturday.
House Rep. Kevin Jensen (R-Canton) and Sen. John Wiik (R-Big Stone City) are running against each other to become the next chair of the South Dakota Republican Party.
Denver Air Connection put in a proposal to the city of Pierre that includes the possibility of flying to and from either Minneapolis or Chicago every day.
The decision to commute the sentences of three women convicted of manslaughter by Governor Kristi Noem is drawing strong criticism from some of the victim’s families.
In South Dakota, one in every 170 pregnancies ends in a stillbirth. CDC data shows that every year in the U.S., approximately 700 women die from childbirth complications, and 23,500 babies are stillborn.
While the odds of the glory years returning are long, hunting the state bird is still a popular activity that generates hundreds of millions of dollars into the South Dakota economy each year.
As a winter storm continues to ravage much of South Dakota, those on reservations throughout the state are still trying to recover from last week’s winter storm.