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.

He was once the all-time winningest boy's basketball coach in South Dakota. He spent 34 years coaching at Parker High School. Gayle Hoover joins Craig Mattick on this edition of In Play.

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.

No constitutional officer in the history of South Dakota has ever been impeached. The fate staring down Jason Ravnsborg in the Senate is permanent, as lawmakers consider whether to remove and bar him from office over his conduct involving a fatal crash.

As abortion rights activists work to place a constitutional amendment on the 2024 November ballot, two historically integral organizations say the proposed language is not enough. The disagreement mirrors how anti-abortion forces were divided on how best to tackle and overturn Roe V. Wade.

Guests on this episode of Dakota Dialogues are Professor John Carey of Dartmouth College and Brightline Watch, PhD Candidate Sam Harper at the University of Iowa, and Alexander Theodoridis of the UMASS Poll.

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.