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Updated: 5 hours ago
|By Austin Goss
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.
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Updated: 5 hours ago
|By KOTA Staff
Two South Dakota legislators file “First Woman Governor” bill and constitutional amendment, replacing "he" with "governor."
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Updated: 10 hours ago
|By Austin Goss
Sen. Julie Frye-Mueller (R-Rapid City) is responding for the first time after being stripped of her committee assignments by Senate leadership Wednesday.
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Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 4:37 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
Sen. Julie Frye-Mueller (R-Rapid City) was stripped of her two committee assignments as a result of an interaction she had with an LRC staffer.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 11:27 AM CST
|By Todd Epp
State representative from Rapid City wanted the South Dakota Legislature to support Jan. 6 defendants. His fellow lawmakers didn't agree.
Updated: Jan. 25, 2023 at 9:40 AM CST
|By Austin Goss
South Dakota Republican state lawmakers want to end “kid-friendly” drag shows in the state.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 11:41 AM CST
|By Heather Hollingsworth
A Native American tribe in South Dakota says several of its members died when December storms buried their reservation in snow and left them stranded.
Updated: Jan. 24, 2023 at 10:00 AM CST
|By Dakota News Now staff
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.
Updated: Jan. 23, 2023 at 2:56 PM CST
|By Dakota News Now staff
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.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 7:47 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 7:07 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
Jackley, 52, has returned to the Attorney General job after having served in the same spot from 2009 to 2019.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 2:56 PM CST
|By KOTA Staff
Worker shortage could be eased with new legislation regarding out-of-state licenses.
Updated: Jan. 20, 2023 at 2:54 PM CST
|By KOTA Staff
Noem signed an executive order blocking South Dakota from doing business with “evil foreign governments.”
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 5:26 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 12:02 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
A former staffer for Governor Kristi Noem’s campaign and office is moving over to help run the South Dakota Republican Party.
Updated: Jan. 19, 2023 at 11:44 AM CST
|By Austin Goss
Governor Kristi Noem has not made herself available to local media for questions since before her re-election win in early November 2022.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 12:20 PM CST
|By Todd Epp
The South Dakota House Judiciary Committee passes two bills dealing with possible criminal justice reforms.
Updated: Jan. 18, 2023 at 9:23 AM CST
|By Austin Goss
South Dakota State Senators want to make medical marijuana more accessible to those suffering from “debilitating medical conditions.”
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 5:48 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
The “Help Not Harm” bill is intended to prevent healthcare providers from giving children under 18 puberty blockers or gender surgeries.
Updated: Jan. 17, 2023 at 4:43 PM CST
|By The Associated Press
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.
Updated: Jan. 16, 2023 at 1:51 PM CST
|By Dakota News Now staff
On this week’s Matters of the State, we break down the first week of the South Dakota legislative session and sit down with Sen. Mike Rounds.
Updated: Jan. 14, 2023 at 8:32 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 3:51 PM CST
|By Stu Whitney
Politics, pay and respect have a major impact on teachers when they search for a job.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 3:40 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 3:03 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Jan. 13, 2023 at 12:29 PM CST
|By Todd Epp
Retaining new correctional officers in Sioux Falls at the South Dakota Secretary of Corrections is an issue, but recruiting is improving.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 9:49 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 9:13 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
Governor Kristi Noem has said multiple times she has no intentions of running for president. However, her tone and approach have changed more recently.
Updated: Jan. 11, 2023 at 7:06 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Jan. 10, 2023 at 4:23 PM CST
|By KOTA Staff
Law enforcement's trust between agencies is not always amiable.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 2:03 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
Kevin Jensen is exiting the race for South Dakota Republican Party chair and endorsing former state lawmaker Tom Brunner, who confirmed his candidacy Monday.
Updated: Jan. 9, 2023 at 9:34 AM CST
|By Dakota News Now staff
A preview of the upcoming South Dakota Legislative Session with reporters Austin Goss and Joe Sneve.
Updated: Jan. 7, 2023 at 6:12 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 2:21 PM CST
|By KOTA Staff
The South Dakota Department of Education starts the New Year with a new secretary.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 12:26 PM CST
|By Stacker.com
According to a new Stacker.com article, total property damages from winter weather in South Dakota are estimated to reach $6.6 million.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2023 at 6:52 AM CST
|By Austin Goss
The 56th South Dakota Inaugural is on Saturday, January 7th.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2023 at 8:27 AM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 7:32 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Dec. 30, 2022 at 7:08 PM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 3:03 PM CST
|By Dakota News Now staff
Sioux Falls police reported a 69-year-old man was conned out of nearly $20K through a bitcoin scam.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 12:57 PM CST
|By Dakota News Now staff
The GoFundMe campaign was set at $8,500 to cover funeral expenses, and has raised over $9,000 in a single day with nearly 250 donations.
Updated: Dec. 29, 2022 at 11:17 AM CST
|By Austin Goss
Noem has made several new hires for her office over the last several weeks.
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 10:59 AM CST
|By Kesia Cameron
The owner of the home told officers, “nobody was supposed to be in that shed.”
Updated: Dec. 27, 2022 at 10:29 AM CST
|By Austin Goss
For the third election cycle in a row, South Dakota voters could see a measure to legalize recreational marijuana.
Updated: Dec. 26, 2022 at 7:02 AM CST
|By KOTA Staff
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.
Updated: Dec. 25, 2022 at 12:59 PM CST
|By Kate Robinson
Driving distracted is dangerous. Make sure you keep yourself and your passengers safe when hitting the road.
Updated: Dec. 24, 2022 at 6:16 PM CST
|By Scott Waltman
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.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 10:34 AM CST
|By Austin Goss
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.
Updated: Dec. 23, 2022 at 9:37 AM CST
|By The Associated Press
Melissa Magstadt, who also served two terms as a Republican in the state House of Representatives, is South Dakota's new secretary of health.
Updated: Dec. 22, 2022 at 8:30 PM CST
|By KOTA Staff
South Dakota National Guard called up to help with storm recovery across the state and on tribal lands.