The Senate confirmed Mr. Patel by a vote of 51 to 49 to lead the country’s premier federal law enforcement agency.

This is part one in a three part series on the proposed Lincoln County Correctional Facility.]By Stu Whitney, South Dakota ...

"A prison, like a jail, is a necessary government function, and it must be located somewhere," a state circuit judge ruled.

Landowners near the new Lincoln County prison site railed against the Department of Corrections for a lack of transparency ...

Supporters Gov. Larry Rhoden and former Gov. Kristi Noem insisted the nearly 150-year-old SD State Penitentiary in Sioux ...

A federal judge in 2021 halted additional fireworks shows at Mount Rushmore, and no more shows have occurred since.

Kristi Noem used a farewell address to South ... a former speaker of the South Dakota House of Representatives who challenged Noem in 2022 for the Republican nomination for governor, garnering ...

President Trump raised eyebrows in an interview that aired Monday after he declined to name Vice President Vance as his ...

House Bill 1205 was introduced by Rep. Julie Auch after concerns arose about two leases for ‘One Stop’ centers in Rapid City and Sioux Falls. The One Stop centers are designed to streamline government ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson, in highly revealing comments before a South Side church audience, said he wants only loyalists in his ...

SWANNANOA - In her Feb. 8 visit to Western North Carolina, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ...

Allies of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem are celebrating her as the "definition of South Dakota toughness ... down the border and clean house of illegal immigrants ...