By curtailing state grants and low-interest loans, that market will be free to invest in states that are more financially ...

Lawmakers had put back more than $600 million for prison construction before the 2025 legislative session, and the fund had swelled larger than that with interest by winter.

Criminal charges in multiple investigations involving inmates at South Dakota state prison facilities are pending.

LOS ANGELES (South Dakota Searchlight) – Federal law enforcement officials forcibly removed and handcuffed U.S. Sen. Alex ...

The latest inmate to die marks a somber figure for South Dakota's death toll within state prisons. The South Dakota ...

Programs that train inmates outside prison walls have had success, though. Twelve minimum custody inmates graduated with ...

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight Seven landowners in Bon Homme and Charles Mix counties will receive a total of nearly ...

The U.S. House narrowly passed legislation Thursday that would revoke $9.4 billion in previously approved funding for public media, including ...

Nationwide protests against the Trump administration are planned this Saturday, including in South Dakota cities.

The South Dakota Department of Health plans to send its fledgling mobile clinics to underserved and undervaccinated areas to help combat measles.