Republicans are retiring or running for another office in larger numbers than Democrats, a trend often seen in midterm election years when the majority party also holds the White House. Historically, ...

President Donald Trump tells governors he won’t deploy federal immigration operations in states that don’t request them, ...

South Dakota Republicans worry that she might return. Updated at 1:00 p.m. ET on February 20, 2026.

One bill rejected by the Senate State Affairs Committee was introduced by Sen. Casey Crabtree, R-Madison. The legislation ...

South Dakota’s biggest data center consumes 30 megawatts, and the state has none of the vastly larger data centers that have proliferated elsewhere.

It’s not every day that a South Dakota legislator gets to save lives. That’s what members of the House Education Committee thought they were doing when they unanimously endorsed House Bill 1073. The ...

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden vetoed House Bill 1077 to block a permanent ban on cell-cultured meat, arguing it raises legal and free-market concerns. The post South Dakota governor vetoes bill ...

Barring the use of food stamp benefits for soda purchases would cost South Dakota taxpayers $310,000 in the first two years, ...

We spend a lot of time … trying to tackle the symptoms of the problem without actually addressing the problem, so the problem never really goes away," Ahlers said.

Two contradictory bills met different fates on Tuesday at the Capitol in Pierre as South Dakota lawmakers continued to wrestle with the best way to provide tax relief.

SB 2 was signed at a signing ceremony at Silencer Central with the bill’s prime sponsors, Senator Casey Crabtree and Representative Drew Peterson; Attorney General Marty Jackley; and other ...

South Dakota lawmakers in Pierre have property tax proposals aplenty to discuss, built upon 19 ideas from a tax relief task force and others from the governor and individual legislators.