"Common sense is not so common up here anymore, which results in poor bills getting out of committee and debated on the floor ...

State officials reported a sharp decline in the official number of abortions after the Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade in ...

How did the proposed prison make it to 2025 and what are the common questions that continue to be addressed in various ...

Lawmakers advanced a bill that would appropriate the last round of one-time funding needed to pay for a new men's prison.

While House Bill 1025 now goes to the House Committee on Appropriations in Pierre, the House State Affairs committee gave no ...

The groups vocalizing support for the project include the South Dakota State’s Attorneys Association, the South Dakota Sheriffs Association, and the South Dakota Police Chiefs Association.

South Dakota Broadcasters Association The latest skirmish in South Dakota’s years long bid to build a new prison pitted ...

The South Dakota legislature is one of 16 state legislatures with term limits. Voters enacted the South Dakota Term Limits Act in 1992. That initiative said that South Dakota senators are subject to ...

The South Dakota Legislature faces a packed agenda Wednesday (Feb. 12, 2025). The House State Affairs Committee meets to consider the Department of Corrections Lincoln County prison construction bill.

Here’s a look at some of the events scheduled at the state Capitol for Wednesday, February 12, the 20th working day of the 2025 session of the South Dakota Legislature. House State Affairs at 7:45 a.m ...

The Department of Justice recently argued that birthright citizenship does not apply to Native Americans. The administration ...

On Thursday in Pierre, state senators did something no previous Senate had been willing to do: Endorse a bill to change South Dakota’s unique-in-the-nation felony drug ingestion law. Under the statute ...