The South Dakota Supreme Court says a group that was trying to stop the state government’s plan to build a men’s prison in Lincoln County lacked legal ...

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

The South Dakota political landscape has changed a bit since I last occupied this space in the newspaper. Dusty Johnson, the ...

MADISON, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight) – A Republican state legislator from Madison filed his statement of candidacy ...

A Republican state legislator from Madison filed his statement of candidacy Wednesday to run for South Dakota’s lone seat in ...

A Republican state senator from Madison filed his statement of candidacy to run for South Dakota’s lone seat in the U.S.

Five Democratic state representatives, including House Minority Leader Erin Healy, D-Sioux Falls, sent a letter to House ...

Scott Schlagel, of Dell Rapids, is a former correctional officer and outspoken critic of the South Dakota Department of ...

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this ...

"Robert Kennedy Jr., who is as dangerous as any of President Trump’s cabinet appointments AND noticeably silent on anything ...

Since 1934, sales of Federal Duck Stamps have raised $1.2 billion to conserve more than 6 million acres of wetlands and other ...