South Dakota's 100th legislative session will kick off next week, and Sioux Falls-area lawmakers gathered Thursday morning with business leaders to talk about their priorities and predictions for the 2025 legislative session.

Your state senators and representatives directly represent you in the decisions they make that affect all of South Dakota. But they only know what you care about if you tell them.

Gov. Kristi Noem has proposed a significant reduction in funding to the South Dakota State Library in her 2025 budget, a move that, if approved by the legislature, would also significantly impact Siouxland Libraries' access to resources.

A new statewide group is looking to help South Dakotans find access to healthy foods in an effort to decrease nutrition-related diseases through a "food is medicine" initiative.

Here's what you need to know about "Short Walk."

Sioux Falls-area lawmakers are prime sponsors of more than 40% of the proposed legislation (including bills, resolutions and commemorations) in Pierre.

Gov. Kristi Noem kicked off South Dakota's 99th legislative session on Tuesday with a State of the State address focused on the top 10 ways that "freedom works here" – also the tagline for a recent state-funded marketing campaign to recruit workers to South Dakota.

Some themes that emerged in the event this week included support for counties, funding for infrastructure, a tuition freeze for state universities and the need to discuss the ongoing childcare crisis.

South Dakota's 99th annual legislative session kicks off next week.

Gov. Kristi Noem stood before lawmakers and the public on Tuesday to deliver her annual budget address, proposing a more than 7.2 billion in spending for the next fiscal year.

Lawmakers passed more than 200 bills during the 2023 legislative session, and more than half of those are already set to become law.

Gov. Kristi Noem on Tuesday told lawmakers how she'd like them to spend state tax money over the next 18. months.

South Dakotans largely know who's representing them in Congress, in Pierre and in the Governor's mansion – though some tight legislative races are close enough that we might see a recount.

With so many big statewide races on the ballot, you'd be forgiven for forgetting there are also county-level races. But, fear not. We've got you covered.

South Dakotans could see a new governor, new representation in Congress and new faces in a number of statewide roles. There are also lots of incumbents in the running.

The two measures on the November ballot cover two big topics: recreational marijuana usage and Medicaid expansion. Here's what you need to know.

Abortion is now illegal across the state of South Dakota, but questions remain as to how the law will be implemented, as well as how exceptions to the abortion ban will be determined.