Right now, our number of food insecure people in our state is higher than COVID-19 pandemic times and higher than the 2008 recession. It’s the highest numbers we’ve ever seen."

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem will be the nation’s next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security after the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination Saturday. The 53-year-old Noem, a former congresswoman,

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota has largely sustained pandemic-era gains in park visitation and license sales for hunting and fishing, according to the Department of Game, Fish and Parks.

Kristi Noem, South Dakota's firebrand Republican governor, faced questioning Friday at her confirmation hearing to be secretary of homeland security. Noem, the daughter of a farmer and a former representative from South Dakota, is being questioned before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

A South Dakota child has died with a dual infection of pertussis and influenza, state says. What are the symptoms of pertussis, a childhood killer?

On a face-numbingly frigid afternoon last week, Gov. Kristi Noem used a farewell address to South Dakotans to warn of an “invasion” far away from the state’s windswept prairies and freedom-loving farmers.

South Dakota state government has met the December 31, 2024, deadline for obligating the more than $1 billion of aid received from the federal government in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. State Finance Commissioner Jim Terwilliger delivered the 27-page progress report on Thursday to the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Appropriations.

As per the latest data by WHO, from the pandemic's onset until November 10, 2024, over 776.8 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 7 million deaths were reported across 234 countries.

Several teachers who quit teaching in South Dakota are now sharing their stories for the first time to publicly raise awareness.

A co-op of ethnic German Hutterite farmers, who arrived in the 19th century, own the Dakota Provisions plant. But migrants from Venezuela, Thailand and other countries, earning around $14 per hour, perform the dangerous, back-breaking work.

A new report released Jan. 10 examines the current state and challenges of early childhood education and care in South Dakota.

Initially, David Quammen's expert-driven forecast was quietly well-received but garnered little widespread attention. That changed in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic brought his prediction to life, t