South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is pressuring House lawmakers weighing impeachment charges against the state’s attorney general to release the investigative file on his 2020 fatal car crash.
Two more law enforcement officers expressed doubt with the account South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has given of what happened in a September 2020 incident where he struck and killed Joe Boever outside of Highmore, South Dakota.
Senate Democrats say it’s important to pass federal legislation to ensure each person’s right to vote. Republican senators say bills have been passed to extend voting rights and the power of changing voting laws should remain at the state level.
The select committee considering the impeachment of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg grilled members of law enforcement on Tuesday about the merits of the investigation into the September 2020 crash.
Several law enforcement officials who led the investigation into a fatal crash involving South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg are set to testify before a legislative committee considering his impeachment.
A South Dakota legislative committee has approved a bill championed by Gov. Kristi Noem to ban transgender women and girls from participating in school sports leagues that match their gender identity.
Governor Kristi Noem has released a new campaign ad touting her record "protecting girls sports." However, the ad, and the decision to air in national television markets, have drawn the ire of many of her opponents.
Gov. Kristi Noem spoke to lawmakers and the state Tuesday on what she believes are some of the biggest issues facing South Dakota in her annual State of the State address.
Gov. Kristi Noem will kick off the 2022 South Dakota Legislature in traditional fashion Tuesday afternoon with the governor’s State of the State address.
Former President Donald Trump is berating Sen. Mike Rounds after the Senator publicly said the 2020 presidential election was “fair” and that it is time for Republicans to move on.
South Dakota’s rapid-fire legislative session is kicking off with lawmakers prepared to debate legalizing marijuana, how to spend nearly $1 billion in federal coronavirus relief and what to do with several bills touching on some of the nation’s most incendiary social issues.
The South Dakota State Legislature's Rules Review committee signed off on a 2021 executive order by Governor Kristi Noem restricting access to the medications used by women to get abortions.
SD state lawmakers are set to consider a number of bills regarding marijuana in 2022. Many are just clean up measures, while others are much more controversial and consequential.
In his first television interview since the passing of his wife Jean in November, Senator Mike Rounds opens up about his struggle through the last several weeks, and what the future might hold for him, both politically and personally.
Sherry Bren testified before the Government Operations and Audit Committee (GOAC) that the circumstances under which Governor Kristi Noem's daughter, Kassidy Peters, received her appraisal licenses were highly unusual. She also testified that she was forced to quit her job unwillingly.
South Dakota Speaker of the House Spencer Gosch (R-Glenham) has tabbed Sara Frankenstein of Rapid City to provide special counsel to the House’s “Special Committee on Impeachment.”
The South Dakota Government Operations and Audit Committee (GOAC) is set to hear from Sherry Bren for the first time since the Associated Press reported on a controversy involving Bren and a meeting with Governor Kristi Noem and other state officials at the Governor's Mansion in July 2020.
The leader of the South Dakota State Senate has released the names of House members who signed on to consider the impeachment of Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg, defying House Speaker Spencer Gosch.
Congress is discussing ways that they could take aim at the the lax federal laws that currently regulate the trust industry, which could have an outsized effect on South Dakota.
Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg is slated to be impeached by the South Dakota State Legislature. A month after that committee was officially formed by a vote of the South Dakota State House, no more meetings have been scheduled, and next to no new updates have come out.
In delivering her budget address, Governor Kristi Noem attempted to strike a balance between her deep-seeded fiscal conservatism, and coming up with a plan for the millions of COVID relief dollars the state intends to spend from Biden's American Rescue Plan.
The United States Supreme Court is set to hear a landmark abortion case starting this week. The decision in that case could effectively determine the future of abortion access in South Dakota.
The South Dakota Speaker of the House and the Legislative Research Council will face a second lawsuit from newspaper organizations regarding his decision to not release the names of the people signed onto the special session petition.
The South Dakota State Legislature's Government Operations and Audit Committee (GOAC) will hear from Sherry Bren at a later date regarding the state's appraisal program and a close door meeting that she attended with Governor Kristi Noem.
Former South Dakota Speaker of the House and current State Representative Steve Haugaard (R-Sioux Falls) is holding a news conference Wednesday, where he is expected to announce he will run for South Dakota Governor in 2022.
The South Dakota State Legislature's Government Operations and Audit Committee has agreed to subpoena documents and testimony regarding how Governor Kristi Noem's daughter received a real estate appraisal licenses in 2020.
According to a news release, Noem’s campaign has raised more than $10 million since her last election. Her campaign has more than $6.5 million cash on hand between all campaign accounts.
Former South Dakota Governor Frank L. Farrar passed away peacefully at the age of ninety-two on October 31, 2021, in Rochester, Minnesota, surrounded by family.
