Dennis Daugaard

Republicans have a super-majority in both chambers of the South Dakota state legislature. State Representative Spence Hawley is a Democrat – one of 16…

Governor Dennis Daugaard is proposing a total budget of $4.6-billion for fiscal year 2018. The state is seeing lower than expected growth in sales taxes…

Medicaid expansion would have extended health care coverage to South Dakotans who make too little money to afford health insurance but too much money to…

Madison Daily Leader publisher Jon Hunter talks about the upcoming budget address, the prospect of budget adjustments and a more modest budget in FY18.

Governor Dennis Daugaard says South Dakota has to revise this year’s budget. That’s because he says the state is not bringing in as much money as…

State lawmakers say improving quality of health care remains a legislative priority. This on the heels of Governor Dennis Daugaard’s announcement that he…

South Dakota political leaders say Medicaid expansion is off the table in the 2017 legislative session. But one lawmaker says that doesn’t solve the…

UPDATE: Black Hills National Forest Service supervisor Mark Van Every issued the following statement in regards to earlier claims the state never reached…

Two of South Dakota’s top Republican lawmakers are calling on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to drop out of the race… but technically it’s…

Governor Dennis Daugaard is appointing former state Representative David Lust of Rapid City to fill the seat of a state lawmaker who passed away last…