State Rep. Will Mortenson, R-Fort Pierre, speaks in the South Dakota House of Representatives on Feb. 4, 2025. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) Fort Pierre Republican Will Mortenson told ...

South Dakota's plan to build an $825 million men's prison complex in rural Lincoln County has sparked clashes of opinion.

North Dakota state Representative Josh Christy died on Tuesday at the age of 43. District 27 party leaders will appoint a ...

A bill requiring public school districts in South Dakota to display the state motto “Under God, the People Rule” in ...

Kansas has become the 27th state to ban minors from undergoing body-mutilating sex-change surgeries after the ...

Has South Dakota soured on direct democracy? The answer to that question will be partly answered during the 2025 legislative ...

House lawmakers voted 49-21 Wednesday afternoon to segregate restrooms in state-owned facilities such as the Capitol, prisons ...

Rep. Josh Christy, a Republican, died Tuesday evening in Bismarck of unknown causes, Rep. Jeremy Olson, R-Arnegard announced ...

South Dakota's four-year process to address the state's correctional needs evolved into a plan to build a new men's prison on ...

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

Mike Rounds overcame him in that year's Republican primary. Rhoden returned to the South Dakota Legislature in 2017 after winning his district's seat in the state House, of which he was named majority ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Larry Rhoden, who succeeded Kristi Noem as South Dakota ... in the Legislature and was seeking re-election to a seat in the House in 2018 when Noem, the Republican ...