SDPB's Podcasts

Each day, SDPB brings you statewide news coverage. We then compile those stories into a daily podcast.

Ahead of the premiere of the Independent Lens film "We Want the Funk," we bring you the soundtrack of the state. Hear folk, jazz and funk over this hour.

Jon Hunter and Michael Card explore the impact of a contentious 2024 primary, the ongoing debate over direct democracy, and the role of legislative mentorship.

Gina Benz describes social-emotional learning and the impact on student's development.

Today's guest, one of the all-time great girls' basketball players in South Dakota. She scored more than 2,000 points in her high school career and was named South Dakota's Miss Basketball. Megan Mahoney joins Craig Mattick on this edition of In Play.

In this edition of History 605, Ben Jones speaks to author April White, who brings us back to the high society of the Sioux Falls Cataract Hotel and how it became the place where certain women from the East Coast could escape a bad marriage.

A preview of SDPB latest podcast following the former South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg after he struck and killed pedestrian Joe Boever in September 2020 to his impeachment and removal from office in June 2022.

In June 2022, a near-total abortion ban went into effect in South Dakota after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. In 2006 and 2008, voters rejected abortion bans at the ballot box.

On this episode of Dakota Dialogues, Shane and Julia discuss the implications for truth and democracy inSouth Dakota and over time in the US with historian, author, and professor Dr. Sophia Rosenfeld.

A torrent of water rushes out of the Black Hills toward Rapid City. A teenager finds his mother’s home surrounded by raging water, while a man living high above Rapid Creek watches helplessly as homes and lives are swept away below. A real-estate developer is trapped by high water in one of his condominiums, and a young man is thrown into the water when a house breaks apart. Meanwhile, a National Guard soldier struggles to save a family on a rooftop.