A corporation named the Government Integrity Initiative (GII) was behind the telemarketing campaign aimed at state lawmakers serving on the select committee considering the impeachment of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg.
After targeting several incumbent state lawmakers over the course of the last two years, State Sen. Lee Schoenbeck (R-Watertown) is on the receiving end of a negative political campaign.
Advocates for legalizing recreational cannabis say that they have collected more than enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot for the November general election.
A number of South Dakota state lawmakers have been on the receiving end of a mailer campaign by an influential member of the State Senate. However, the targeted lawmakers say that the mailer is disingenuous.
The South Dakota Senate has approved the rules for an impeachment trial of the state’s attorney general for his conduct surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash.
The vote took place just after noon Tuesday, following more than an hour of debate. The final vote was 36 to 31, the absolute minimum amount of votes necessary to impeach.
South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg is asking the South Dakota House of Representatives to not vote to impeach him in Tuesday’s meeting in Pierre.
At the request of legislators, the SD Department of Public Safety gave a public briefing explaining how they came to the conclusions they did in the investigation into Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, and what they believe happened the night he struck and killed Joe Boever.
A federal judge has ordered the state of South Dakota to pay lawyers for the “Blue State Refugees” $37,503 after it was found that the Noem Administration violated the organization’s First Amendment rights.
A new study found that while the number of reporters covering statehouses increased in most states, South Dakota’s number has remained flat over the past few years.
While taking questions from audience members, Noem committed to signing an executive order to “ban critical race theory” in South Dakota public schools.
Officials have released a trove of files and reports used by the legislative committee considering the impeachment of South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg.
In a letter from 11 members of House leadership and members of the House Appropriations committee, lawmakers ask Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg to review the constitutionality of Noem’s authority to spend funds.
The South Dakota legislature’s Executive Board set the topics that they will spend the summer looking into, with the intention of introducing legislation on the topics next year.
The House’s “Select Committee on Investigation” will meet Monday with the intentions of releasing the investigative report and a recommendation as to whether or not the select committee believes Ravnsborg should be impeached.
The committee considering the impeachment of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg is sending a cease and desist letter to Governor Kristi Noem for her involvement in the proceedings.
State Sen. Troy Heinert (D-Mission) is sponsoring a commemoration in the South Dakota state legislature to honor one of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history.
A South Dakota legislator and gubernatorial candidate is facing criticism from both sides of the political aisle following a comment he made describing a woman while speaking on the floor of the House.
Senators on the Education committee defeated a bill Thursday morning that was a major policy prerogative of Governor Kristi Noem in the 2022 legislative session.
House state lawmakers debated a resolution that would have criticized Governor Kristi Noem for allegedly interfering with her daughter’s real estate appraisal licenses application process.
In the seventh day of impeachment hearings, state lawmakers pressed many of the people involved in the investigation and the immediate aftermath of the crash about what they knew regarding what happened that September 2020 night.
State lawmakers on the Senate Health and Human Services committee voted Thursday to put a recreational marijuana legalization bill on the Senate floor. However, the future of the bill is uncertain.
A bill that would put into place a way to tax recreational marijuana in South Dakota if it became legal is working it's way through the state legislature.
Current State Representative and candidate for Governor Steve Haugaard (R-Sioux Falls) brought the resolution to the legislature with the hope of setting the stage to eventually ban abortion in South Dakota all together.
After days of back and forth between House lawmakers and the Governor’s office, $61 million worth of daycare grant checks are making their way out to daycare providers across South Dakota, according to State Auditor Rich Sattgast.
The bill was the latest in a string of several measures over the last several legislative sessions attempting to regulate whether or not transgender individuals can utilize the restroom of the gender they identify with.
Online sports gambling is one step closer to being legal in South Dakota, after the State Senate narrowly advanced a resolution to put it on the ballot in 2022.
