South Dakota’s $825 million prison project in rural Lincoln County faces legislative and legal hurdles as the proposed site and price tag come under fire.

Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million ...

"A prison, like a jail, is a necessary government function, and it must be located somewhere," a state circuit judge ruled.

They will tell you there’s not a lot of people in prisons simply for ingestion charges all by themselves and they need that ...

I suppose that is part of what attracted me to a career as a news reporter in South Dakota’s capital city. Over 40 years of ...

No matter how much a South Dakotan loves or hates a piece of legislation in Pierre, it’s just that: only a bill, at least temporarily. House Bill 1025, which ...

South Dakota lawmakers are wrestling with what to do about two unusual 30-year leases of office property in Rapid City and Sioux Falls.

South Dakota debates new $825 million prison construction between Harrisburg and Canton, with funding drawn from state ...

The South Dakota legislature is one of 16 ... a compromise between two competing proposals. Both chambers voted to approve the final proposal, known as the Sparrow map, on November 10, 2021. The House ...

100th Legislative Session 2025 – Week 4 by Rep. Mike Weisgram (R- Fort Pierre) (Feb. 7, 2025) It’s Friday after session and I ...

Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged his own chamber's plan for Trump's big ... toward the GOP’s overall goals. As the House ...