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Practitioners say South Dakota is overdue for an adjustment to its special education funding formula, but lawmakers are hesitant to approve anything that increases property taxes.

South Dakota has been on a sales tax “holiday” since the Kristi Noem administration. Originally seen as temporary, a group of lawmakers seeks to change that.

As the Legislature gets deeper into session, the lack of consensus on a major issue continues to bleed into conversations: how to handle data centers.

Lawmakers kill a resolution asking voters if they want to repeal Medicaid Expansion at the November election.

A House bill that would prevent taking more water from aquifers in the Black Hills than can be recharged by nature each year passed out of committee.

In his State of the State address, Gov. Larry Rhoden said he hoped the bill allowing the state to move forward with the Rural Health Transformation Program would be the first to cross his desk. Thursday, he got his wish.

A House committee advances a joint resolution that asks voters if they want to repeal Medicaid Expansion at the general election in November.

A bill seeking to add provisions for challenging South Dakota voters’ eligibility based on citizenship advances from the Senate State Affairs committee.

A preliminary damage assessment conducted by FEMA reported more than $4.6 million in public infrastructure damage across Custer, Pennington and Fall River counties from the record-breaking windstorm.

With no reconsideration vote in the House, a judicial system-supported bill is dead. It would have created a pre-trial supervision program in Pennington County.