Attention is already turning to 2026, when South Dakota will elect a new governor as well as hold races for U.S. Senate.

Larry Rhoden has been serving as Kristi Noem's lieutenant governor. He'll inherit a tougher budget environment than she had.

Twenty years after he won his Senate seat by assailing Tom Daschle’s performance as minority leader, John Thune is the ...

President-elect Donald Trump chooses South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary, despite her controversial ...

A South Dakota judge has dismissed a lawsuit that an anti-abortion group filed in June targeting an abortion rights measure ...

Since 2004, South Dakota has trended politically to the right, as no Democratic candidate has won a statewide election since 2008. On the executive front, President Donald Trump announced his ...

The man set to replace Kristi Noem as South Dakota governor is a friendly, plain-spoken rancher and specialty welder whom ...

Jim Mehlhaff will be the majority leader of the South Dakota Senate, with Carl Perry taking the position of assistant ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has selected South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to head the Department ... She has since become a ...

The journey of U.S. Sen. John Thune to new Senate majority leader began 20 years ago in one of the hardest fought, ...

Secretary of Homeland Security nominee Kristi Noem has a long, complicated history with tribes in South Dakota.

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