PIERRE, SD (KELO.com) — A Huron area farmer is becoming South Dakota’s newest state senator. Governor Rhoden has appointed Brandon Wipf to replace David Wheeler. Wipf has been active in state and ...

Current Republican U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson is running for governor next year. Here's a look at how Election 2026 is shaping ...

The Spirit Lake Nation and Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa asked the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals not to reinstate a North ...

Lawmakers on South Dakota’s recidivism and rehabilitation committee held their first meeting June 23 at the University of South Dakota’s Sioux Falls campus to address the state’s incarceration rate ...

South Dakota has the nation’s 15th-highest incarceration rate, according to The Sentencing Project. Forty-three percent of adult offenders in South Dakota return to prison within three years of ...

General election for South Dakota State Senate District 26 Tamara Grove defeated incumbent Shawn Bordeaux in the general election for South Dakota State Senate District 26 on November 5, 2024.

Julian Beaudion is a retired South Dakota state trooper who is running to become the state's first Black senator.

PIERRE, S.D. (SDBA) – A bill requiring South Dakota state employees to report misconduct is heading to Gov. Larry Rhoden’s desk. Senate Bill 62 passed 20-14 today (Wednesday). It mandates that state ...

Republican state Senator Tamara Grove said it was hard to see the defeat. Grove said she believes in the value of Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings, and their power to improve state-tribal ...

Sen. Tamara Grove, R-Lower Brule, the bill’s prime Senate sponsor, cited statistics showing South Dakota ranks ninth highest in incarceration despite being the 41st most populated state.

The resolution, Senate Resolution 702, requests that the United States rescinds the Dakota Removal Act of 1863, which banished Dakota people from their homelands in Minnesota.

Many of their descendants now live in South Dakota, North Dakota and Nebraska. “This is just purely a repeal of the act,” Grove assured senators. Grove lives on the Lower Brule Sioux Reservation.