Makenzie Huber

A state board awarded over $10.5 million in federal funding to help rehabilitate or construct affordable housing in South Dakota.

South Dakota Medicaid will start covering doula birth and postpartum services in 2025, according to a doula advocacy group. 

Native American children remain overrepresented in the South Dakota foster care system, accounting for 72.5% of the foster care population.

Several South Dakota legislators will introduce legislation providing property tax relief to homeowners by raising the state sales tax rate.

A $4 million proposal by Gov. Kristi Noem to help students enroll in private school and other forms of alternative instruction would undermine public education, opponents say.

Lawmakers expect South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to present a lean budget due to lower revenues and an end to federal pandemic stimulus cash.

Hundreds of historical markers receive no state funding and require local volunteer fundraising and labor to maintain.

Gov. Kristi Noem signed an executive order and signaled the preparation of a legislative package to strengthen internal controls.

Preliminary sampling data identified “forever chemicals” (PFAS) in the Big Sioux River in eastern South Dakota.

The South Dakota Legislature passed $7 million in funding for the program as a response to mounting cybersecurity concerns among city and county governments.

Organizations representing nursing homes are hopeful President-elect Donald Trump will halt a staffing rule.

South Dakota is on track to see negative sales tax revenue growth for the current fiscal year, analysts said.

After allegedly criminal state employee conduct was unearthed, a lawmaker doesn’t know if bills will address the issue this winter.

If anything could be predicted in Tuesday’s election, it was that Amendment G’s fate would not be the end of abortion discussions in South Dakota.

A proposal to replace male-specific references in the South Dakota Constitution with neutral words and phrases was on the ballot Tuesday.

A proposed law regulating carbon dioxide pipelines was on South Dakota's Nov. 5 statewide general election ballots.

The murky brown Big Sioux River consistently receives poor marks for its water quality, but it's unknown if that pollution includes PFAS.

Article IV, an out-of-state nonprofit that hasn’t disclosed its donors, is outspending in-state opponents and supporters of open primaries.

A state board has awarded nearly all of the grant funding for the state’s Housing Infrastructure Financing Program, while much of the program’s loan money remains available.

Anti-abortion groups have out-fundraised and outspent abortion-rights groups ahead of South Dakota’s vote on an abortion measure.