SDPB's Podcasts

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

A poet and rancher introduces listeners to a cow who holds a grudge. And a bookstore-owner-slash-poet digs into the politics of dog pork.

Jon Hunter and Michael Card, Ph.D., scrutinize Thune's performance as majority leader. They round up national headlines and stories about the South Dakota congressman.

Jackie Wilber talks about the educational benefits of moving your body.

Charlie Ziminga shares some memories of his playing and coaching career at Pine Ridge with Craig Mattick. He also looks back at some memories of one of the all-time South Dakota greats SuAnne Big Crow.

On this edition of History 605, Ben Jones speaks with Chrystal Mensch-Nelson, Director of the Mead Museum in Yankton, about their current exhibit of a rare Jefferson Peace Medal.

As the dust settles, state leaders begin asking new, broader questions about the whole saga. And despite everything that’s happened in Jason Ravnsborg’s life, his eyes are still set law and politics. The fight for his legal career leads him to the state Supreme Court, where he breaks years of silence on the case.

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.

Guests on this episode of Dakota Dialogues are former Kentucky legislator John A. Yarmuth, SDSU Associate Professor David Wiltse, and former South Dakota Congressman Tom Dempster.

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.