South Dakota Focus

Join Jackie Hendry as she hosts the South Dakota Focus Childcare Crisis Town Hall live from SDPB's Black Hills and Sioux Falls studios on Tuesday, Oct. 3.

SDPB's South Dakota Focus will explore issues and challenges impacting the state's young people and their families. Host and writer Jackie Hendry gives us a preview.

Entering its 29th season, and third with Jackie Hendry as host, SD Focus is pivoting to a new presentation style. Always known as a public affairs program that speaks about issues that matter to South Dakota, Focus is taking that approach one step further this season by examining the topic of children’s issues from a variety of angles throughout the season.

South Dakota Focus shares a story produced by the journalism students at Sturgis Brown High School. SDPB asked them to pick a topic related to mental health. They chose isolation

During the May episode of South Dakota Focus, host Jackie Hendry discussed youth mental health trends with a panel of local experts.

The Journey On outreach team operates six days a week, offering rides, water and food to people without a reliable place to live in Rapid City.

Eric Gage is the executive director of The Veterans Community Project Sioux Falls, which is constructing a village of tiny homes to serve as transitional housing for homeless veterans.

Members of the Sioux Falls Homeless Task Force say they’ve come up with sound policies that will make a difference even beyond the state’s largest city, though perhaps the biggest challenge was narrowing down the scope of their recommendations.

South Dakota Focus reviews the historic 2023 legislative session; from the state's largest tax cut ever to a noticeable shift in Pierre's atmosphere since November's election.

Above all else, conversations about tax cuts dominated most of this year's legislative session. After a handful of bills battled it out, the winning deal is the crown jewel of a productive session for the Republican supermajority.