As of October 30, after six weeks of early voting, the Secretary of State reports that county auditors have received 78,778 ballots for South Dakota’s… ...

Senator Marion Michael Rounds has praised Donald Trump for securing the border. But this week Trump didn’t just bend his own rules for as fugitive from justice Flávio Bolsonaro; the Trump ...

Bureau of Finance and Management Commissioner Jim Terwilliger told the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors yesterday that South Dakota faces economic “headwinds”. Those headwinds appear to blowing ...

Boy, the South Dakota Democrats who are running against data centers are on to something. The SD News Watch/Chiesman poll finds South Dakotans really don’t like data centers. 57% of likely South ...

Frank Kloucek, Democratic candidate for Public Utilities Commission, may be the wonkiest farmer in South Dakota. Even as he wages a vigorous campaign against clueless corporate tool Don Haggar for a ...

Since January, the Trump Administration has refused to issue visas to immigrants from 75 countries. The State Department continues to drag its feet on approving visas for immigrants from those ...

Polling for South Dakota News Watch and the Chiesman Center for Democracy, Mason-Dixon Polling and Strategy finds that likely South Dakota voters who recognize that Donald Trump has hurt the state’s ...

Brookings is getting a Menards. The hardware/lumber giant will join Target and Aldi in the northeast quadrant of the I-29/6th Street chaos-plex maybe by Christmas 2029. Menards could have chosen a ...

Midterm polls and predictions are making Donald Trump desperate. It’s not enough that he tries to buy votes; now he’s trying to buy vote interference: President Donald Trump is offering $1 million to ...

Minnehaha County is among the jurisdictions where the Trump Department of “Justice” is sending goons to patrol election places next Tuesday: The South Dakota Secretary of State’s Office has received ...

The latest pre-election poll from South Dakota News Watch and the Chiesman Center for Democracy suggests another ho-hum Republican landslide in South Dakota next Tuesday. Among 500 likely voters ...

The South Dakota Republican Party seems to think that having almost two and half times more registered voters than the South Dakota Democratic Party is an excuse to slack off on supporting its ...