Prohibition

In this week’s South Dakota arts coverage, we discuss an exhibit at the Old Courthouse Museum that educates us on both prohibition and women's suffrage.…

In The Moment ... January 6, 2020 Show 727 Hour 2 There is an exhibit at the Old Courthouse Museum that educates us on both prohibition and women's…

South Dakota voters may have another chance to approve or turn down medical marijuana. Proponents of a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for medical…

A group is now working to make booze and tobacco illegal in South Dakota. Two separate petitions are circulating to add the criminalization of alcohol and…

Pine Ridge will stay dry if the new Oglala Sioux Tribal President has his way.President John Yellow Bird Steele says he is opposed to legalized alcohol on…

More than eighty years after the peak of his power, the legend of mobster Al Capone endures. His name still evokes images of pin-stripe suits and white…

The Prohibition Era is filled with stories of bootleggers who defied the law to produce liquor for thirsty Americans. In his new book, Gentlemen…

For the first time in decades the Pine Ridge Reservation is lifting prohibition. Alcohol has long been illegal on the reservation. But, in a referendum…

Pine Ridge residents have to wait a little longer to hear the results of a referendum that would end the tribal prohibition of alcohol. Officials say the…

Residents of Pine Ridge are going to the polls on Tuesday to decide the fate of the longstanding tribal prohibition of alcohol. The special election has…