Gov. Kristi Noem announced Thursday that public and private K-12 schools across the state will get an extra $500 per student from the $1.25 billion the state received from the

A day after calling for healing and peace as a country, South Dakota’s governor is alleging “communists” have infiltrated the United States Senate.

Promises of respect for all South Dakotans, telling the truth and encouraging everyone to get out and vote dominated a campaign rally speech from Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jamie Smith Friday

People gathered at Mount Rushmore for a naturalization ceremony held by the U.S. District Court and the Mount Rushmore Society. 55 people from 29 countries took the Oath of Allegiance

Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals.

Rapid City has elected both its first Black woman and first openly LGBTQ person to the Rapid City Area Schools Board of Education.

The chairman of the South Dakota Republican Party has a separate job that pays him $10,000 a month to inform government officials, the public and the media about Saudia Arabia,

If he was paying attention, the South Dakota Attorney General should have been able to see the pedestrian before, during and after he fatally crashed into him in September, investigators

I was honored to teach political science courses at SDSU for 38 years. I confess that during those years I was committed to indoctrinating our students, not with a leftist

John Thune was one of only a handful without a mask of the entire U.S. Congress who attended Senator Dole’s funeral Thursday in the Capitol rotunda. How embarrassing and disrespectful.

If Governor Noem wants to hire $600/hour Washington lawyers to challenge the Mount Rushmore fireworks ban she should pay for it from the campaign money she raises on her speaking

Gov. Kristi Noem’s office is declining to disclose the amount it cost the state to send her on numerous campaign appearances for President Trump. It would not provide the travel

An author of one of five book titles removed from classrooms and that could be destroyed by the Rapid City Area School district said Wednesday he will provide free copies

Marty Two Bulls Sr. was out getting coffee when he was named a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning.

Jacob Weasel, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and a surgeon at Monument Health in Rapid City, has become the first Native American to summit Mount Everest.

I am a very concerned parent about the resolution up for vote at next Tuesday’s school board meeting for many reasons. I’m so angry about the intentionally vindictive and spiteful

Gov. Kristi Noem has criticized a grocery-style food bank that provides families with essentials, teaches skills, encourages good behavior for students, and is backed by Christian organizations.

Now the governor wants to spend $35 million in COVID funds on tourism marketing. How about we use that money to help the people who already live here and are

Just days after a state agency moved to deny her daughter's application to become a certified real estate appraiser, Gov. Kristi Noem summoned to her office the employee who ran

Two South Dakota legislators are calling for further investigation into more than $700,000 in state COVID-19 relief grants given to Chris Cammack, son of Senate Majority Leader Gary Cammack.

PIERRE | A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction against a South Dakota rule that would make the state one of the hardest places in the U.S. to get

Ron Moeller watched his son jump as a paratrooper last Tuesday. One week later, he’s watching as news unfolds from Afghanistan and hoping his son comes back alive.

Gov. Kristi Noem said in an executive order Friday that she directed the Highway Patrol superintendent to bring a lawsuit against the voter-approved amendment legalizing marijuana after her spokesman...

CARLISLE, Pa. | The disinterred remains of nine Native American children who died more than a century ago while attending a government-run school in Pennsylvania were headed home to Rosebud

More than 100 South Dakota medical professionals and the American Academy of Pediatrics sent a letter to school boards statewide asking them to consider reinstating mask mandates.

Four months after Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg hit and killed a pedestrian with his car, a prosecutor has yet to make a charging decision or have any communication with the

South Dakota’s newly proposed social studies content standards could easily be mistaken for a bad joke. Unfortunately, the proposal is very serious.

Protesters scaled the Dakota Mill and Grain Silo in downtown Rapid City and adorned it with an upside-down American flag emblazoned with the words “Land Back” on Sunday evening.

This Covid thing has really hit home with me in the past week. I am a proud supporter of the Constitution, the flag, our freedom to choose. I am also

Every day, President Biden shows up to work and delivers for the American people.

Tourists heading to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally will not be allowed through checkpoints on the Cheyenne River Reservation.

PIERRE | A Republican-dominated South Dakota House committee on Friday rejected Gov. Kristi Noem's proposal to require public schools to have a moment of silence to start the day.

Hey Kristi, there are plenty of firework displays going on in the area and those of us living in Keystone would prefer it if you didn’t push your agenda and

A South Dakota nonprofit is again accusing Gov. Kristi Noem of stoking "racial fears" through comments about refugee and unaccompanied minor scenarios it says don't exist in the state.

Transgender people’s rights are considered protected under Title IX, according to a memo from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.

With a twinge of cold in her toes and a tone of concern tinted by exhaustion, Anna Halverson relayed the message: “We’re in a really extreme emergency down here.”

South Dakota lawmakers have summoned two people who were present at a meeting Gov. Kristi Noem held last year that included her daughter, Kassidy Peters, and state employees who were

After the Great Sioux Nation's Tribal Chairman's meeting Saturday morning in Rapid City, tribal members and supporters from across South Dakota met for an Indians Allowed rally in Roosevelt Park.

I am tired.

PIERRE | South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's outspoken business-as-usual approach throughout the coronavirus pandemic has made her a darling of national conservatives and allowed her to hopscotch across...

PIERRE | Gov. Kristi Noem on Thursday defended her push to shield donor information of nonprofit organizations that influence public policy, including one group that was connected to her campaign.

The South Dakota Attorney General’s Office will hire a full-time employee who works on and provides training about solving missing and murdered Indigenous person cases, according to a news release

The Rapid City Journal and its parent company, Lee Enterprises, have retained an attorney to seek information on why documents in a criminal case involving state Senate Majority Leader Gary

PIERRE | Facing criticism for accusing two Democrats who won Georgia’s Senate election of being communists, Gov. Kristi Noem has been avoiding taking direct questions from reporters in South Dakota.

When Susan, a teacher at a Rapid City Area Schools high school, tested positive for COVID-19 at the end of last October, she said she knew it was contracted while

A grassroots group led by Lakota women is celebrating its success in delivering thousands of home-cooked meals to Rapid City families with COVID-19 while planning on continuing its mutual aid

Nick Uhre, co-owner of the Grand Gateway Hotel, sent a lengthy email to Gov. Kristi Noem on Wednesday asking, in part, for her help to remove Rapid City Mayor Steve

With 34% of South Dakotans having received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, the state's health care systems are left with thousands of tablets of hydroxychloroquine that former

As a lifelong South Dakotan, I have always known I am lucky to be from this great state. While serving our country in Vietnam I realized how blessed I truly

I didn’t recognize the guy on the mountain bike. But he recognized me.

The recent tweet from Sen. Rounds is juvenile, ignorant and potentially criminal if perceived as a threat to President Biden. You and I could not get away with a comment

The South Dakota Conference United Church of Christ has issued a public plea for Gov. Kristi Noem to put a statewide mask mandate in place.

A packed courtroom of supporters learned Monday morning that one of the protest leaders who helped shut down the highway to Mount Rushmore on Friday is facing five criminal charges,

Greta Thunberg, 16, spoke out against the Keystone XL Pipeline that is expected to pass through western South Dakota and urged activists and politicians to listen to indigenous people when

I am an Indigenous woman, a wife, a mother, and a daughter of an Indian boarding school survivor. Since the discovery of the 215 young relatives in a mass grave

The taxpayers of South Dakota pay for the state to get amendments put on the ballot, pay for the voting process, pay for their vote to be overturned. This is

As Gov. Kristi Noem gears up to sign House Bill 1217 into law, which prohibits transgender students from playing on a team that aligns with their gender identity, some are

United is moving ahead with terminating the 593 employees who did not get vaccinated or request an accommodation.

The son of a Meade County state senator received more than $1 million in COVID relief funding for a business he says is located in Union Center, S.D., but which

"I cannot give up this platform to promote complacency and peace when there is a war on my body and a war on my rights," she said. Watch the speech

Monument Health announced Thursday it will require all staff members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 1. Monument is the last of the three major health systems in South

State Senator Reynold Nesiba spoke to the Oceti Sakowin Caucus about Governor Kristi Noem’s anti-critical race theory rhetoric, attacks on diversity, and the future of South Dakota’s higher education...

Gov. Kristi Noem has signed House Bill 1232 into law, giving herself and other top state officials including the attorney general a pay raise.

An owner of the Grand Gateway Hotel who was arrested on three counts of simple assault was released the same day using a program funded by a grant from the

After suffering a heart attack last week, former U.S. Attorney for the District of South Dakota, Randy Seiler, died Tuesday, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Rapid City.

A Lakota-led group that’s been patrolling Rapid Creek for the past few months to make sure homeless people are safe has now set up a winter housing camp outside the

The Douglas School District now requires masking for students and staff due to an increase in COVID-19 cases in the district.

“We want our players to leave our program with the confidence to be productive members of their community,” Hemiller said

A recent advertisement for Faith High School Rodeo Club’s “Slave/Branding Auction,” a fundraising event that includes a pancake supper and a pie auction, has caused backlash on social media, forcing

Two hundred flags sit alongside the bank of the pond at Memorial Park in downtown Rapid City, each one representing 11 South Dakotans who died from COVID-19.

Sens. Thune and Rounds and Rep. Johnson, please tell us how you and your fellow lawmakers can even think about taking time off when millions of Americans are suffering economically?

When redshirt-freshman quarterback Jayden Johannsen transferred to South Dakota School of Mines early last summer, he was looking for a new opportunity to get his degree, have fun and compete

The Facebook account for the Pennington County Sheriff's Office has plunged to a 1.6-star rating after reviewers flooded the page with negative reviews and ratings related to the sheriff filing

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit backed by South Dakota to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state

Dear Members of the RCAS Board of Education,

Officials with the He Sapa Wacipi, the Black Hills Powwow, have announced that the powwow has been canceled for the second year in a row out of concern for the

A 61-year-old man running for School Board in Rapid City apologized for posting tweets calling for the execution of Democrats and saying he was "ready to die" taking them out.

The surge of COVID-19 cases in the Rapid City area has filled Monument Health's intensive care unit with patients needing intensive, around-the-clock care and staff forced to make decisions they've

Canceling fireworks at Mount Rushmore has to do with fire danger and chemicals polluting our environment, not politics. If you have ever been terrified during a mandatory fire evacuation, you

With the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in the rear-view mirror, cases of COVID-19 in the Black Hills are spiking. More than half of the 376 new infections reported Wednesday in South

The state's new "unborn child advocate" Mark Miller, who also serves as general counsel to Gov. Kristi Noem, is reviewing South Dakota's abortion laws at Noem's direction. Miller's task is

Mayor Steve Allender will join President Joe Biden at a crime prevention roundtable discussion meeting on Wednesday at the White House.

A man living near Rapid City is facing several federal criminal charges in connection to his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, according to court documents.

South Dakota's ethics board won't publicly disclose the “appropriate action” it took after finding evidence Gov. Kristi Noem intervened with a state agency to influence her daughter's application for...

Monday, October 11, marks the 31st year South Dakota will celebrate “Native American Day”. South Dakota is one of just 14 states that observes Native American Day instead of Columbus

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, health care workers who were working long hours with few resources were framed as heroes on the front lines helping defend the world against a deadly

Connie Uhre, 75, owner of the Grand Gateway Hotel, was arrested Friday afternoon on three counts of simple assault, Rapid City police announced Friday.

The Department of Public Safety has denied a public records request from the Rapid City Journal that asked for all 911 calls made after the attorney general struck and killed

The Gettysburg City Council confirmed Monday night that the police logo that includes a Confederate flag has been removed from the police department’s cars, buildings and patches.

“I thought about how scary it would be to have COVID-19, especially as a single parent and sole provider. My worst-case scenario was ending up in the hospital, and that’s

At the Aug. 9 Rapid City Area Schools Board of Education meeting, the Board voted 5-2 not to apply for a $30,000 grant that would help immigrant students learn to

Larry Rhoden, the running mate of governor candidate Kristi Noem, violated campaign finance law by organizing his fundraising committee too late, according to the state's top election official.

An emergency mask ordinance could be in effect until Jan. 1, 2021, for Rapid City and includes fines as high as $500 for non-compliance, according to the agenda for Thursday's

Charging sales tax on food purchases is regressive by nature but is especially unfair to low-income South Dakotans who already spend a disproportionate amount of their income to meet basic