DOC Deputy Secretary Brent Fluke will also have a place on the committee. Kellie Wasko, the correctional department's outgoing secretary, testified before the Project Prison Reset group during its ...

After multiple Republican candidates for governor advocated firing university professors recently for personal social media ...

Gov. Larry Rhoden signed Executive Order 2025-08, which cleans up 151 old executive orders that are no longer necessary to ...

Larry Rhoden spent his first eight months as governor steering South Dakota onto the high ground of civil discourse, only to ...

The handshake of thanks on Tuesday night between the first-year governor and the first-year lawmaker, as they waited for the legislation authorizing a new men's prison to be signed into South Dakota ...

Thune made a stop in Mitchell for the weekly Mitchell Rotary meeting, held at Bradley’s Pub and Grille on Mitchell Main ...

Gov. Rhoden told the new citizens that it is incumbent on Americans to fight if necessary to protect the country and the freedoms it provides.

Three candidates hoping to be South Dakota’s next governor support a statewide policy or law banning cell phones from school classrooms. Another said the decision should be left to local school ...

Gov. Larry Rhoden signed a bill which appropriates $650 million for the purchase of land and construction of a 1,500-bed men's prison in Sioux Falls.

This concept plan shows how housing and other facilities would be laid out for the men's prison proposed in Sioux Falls, S.D. September 11, 2025 A revised plan for a new, $650-million men’s prison in ...

CHAMBERLAIN, S.D. (KELO) — 44-year-old Terry Gleason of Chamberlain acknowledges the uphill battle he faces. “I am an unknown,” Gleason said Saturday. “Not very many people know me, and so it is a ...