WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in their leadership that elevates a top deputy of Mitch ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Soon-to-be U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune was back in the Mount Rushmore State on Monday ...

Many of the desks will bear different names in the Senate and House when South Dakota’s 2025 legislative session opens on ...

President-elect Donald Trump wants to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education and one of his supporters in the U.S. Senate ...

"How is a new lieutenant governor selected? Well, Gov. Rhoden selects who he wants. However, the person has to be approved by ...

A group of 45 South Dakota current and elected legislators have written to U.S. Sen. John Thune, asking him to use his new position to focus on the ever-rising federal debt.

ABERDEEN, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - A newly-elected representative from District 1 may not take his seat in Pierre. Chris Reder (R-Warner) was elected to serve in the South Dakota House of ...

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota) introduced the “Returning Education to Our States Act” to the Senate on Thursday afternoon, ...

Several of Trump’s nominations— Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard to name two—are so manifestly dangerous that they may, just may, ...

William McGinley, who served as White House Cabinet secretary during Trump’s first term, has also served on the RNC’s outside counsel on election litigation. Trump has lauded him as having “played a ...

The 2004 South Dakota senate race was second only to the presidential ... John Thune was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996. He challenged Democratic U.S. Sen.

South Dakota's relatively unassuming national presence was shattered this week after a meteoric rise to power for Gov. Kristi ...