politics and public policy

Legislative panels looking at redrawing state political boundaries are taking public input. One group is hearing from those in the Rapid City area. 

Governor Kristi Noem says she’s directing lawyers in her officer to review the state’s abortion laws. 

Officials are breaking ground on a new livestock complex at the state fairgrounds. 

A prosecutor is defending his charging decisions in Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg's criminal case. 

The United States has an ongoing treaty obligation to provide competent physician-led healthcare to the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. That ruling was issued by South Dakota Federal Circuit Judge Roberto Lange and has now been upheld by the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. At oral arguments before the Eighth Circuit in March, lawyers argued whether the language of a document more than 150 years old is still valid. 

The Mitchell school board is implementing a mask mandate. Several hundred people attended Monday’s board meeting, including many who loudly oppose the decision. 

Nine South Dakota national guard soldiers are assisting Monument Health with COVID-19 testing. 

South Dakota's deadline for voter-initiated petitions to change laws is unconstitutionally long. That's the decision of Federal Circuit Judge Charles Kornmann issued on Monday, Aug. 30.

A committee redrawing legislative districts will not allow the public to use taxpayer-funded redistricting software.

House lawmakers continue to call on Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg to step down from his position.