The shutdown is forcing the closure of a number of America's beloved cultural institutions starting Sunday. Twenty-one Smithsonian museums, its research centers and the National Zoo are all affected.

I am ashamed to live in a nation whose authoritarian, anti-democratic ruler claims he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than the actual winner, Maria Corina Machado, a woman fighting for democracy against the dictatorial regime of her Venezuela. Anyone who personally campaigns for the Nobel Peace Prize is working for himself, not for peace, and does not deserve a Nobel.

Watch out for Sheriff Rosco clicking his remote control north of Flandreau. The Department of Transportation is putting up variable speed limit signs between the Flandreau and Brookings exits on Interstate 29: These speed limit signs will change in real time based on weather and road conditions to keep drivers safe this winter. Several states, such as Colorado and Wyoming, already utilize these signs, and South Dakota is following suit.

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

Governor Larry Rhoden issued a curious little executive order Wednesday, rescinding 151 old executive orders from as far back as 1961. Rhoden touted these rescindments as getting "ensuring government remains efficient and true to the vision of our Founding Fathers." I'm not sure what logic the Founding Fathers would see in many of these rescindments. The oldest order rescinded is…

The Project 2025 Administration's to make America dumber and weaker proceeds apace, now with the war on immigrants synergizing with the war on education to make it harder for South Dakota to get teachers: “The teacher shortage in South Dakota has not gone away. We’re still feeling it,” said SDEA Director of Public Affairs, Sandra Waltman. Waltman, with the South Dakota Department of Education, said last year, there were about 450 Visa teachers.

The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

Elected officials, activists, and at least one former high-ranking Department of Homeland...

On Tuesday, Governor Larry Rhoden named the members of his new correctional rehabilitation task force. Here's the full roster of 30 South Dakotans tasked with figuring out how to set prisoners on a path that leads away from prison, with asterisks by nine members who served on the prison task force: Lt. Governor Tony Venhuizen, Chair* Mayor of Sioux Falls Paul TenHaken…

Well, we think we'll have enough beds in the new Rhoden/Venhuizen prison to hold all of our overflow prisoners, but South Dakota's prison population growth may put that thinking in peril. A new report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics finds South Dakota's held 9.3% more people behind bars in 2023 than in 2022. Only Maine and New Mexico had higher prison populations growth rates, 11.8% and 12.4%, respectively.

The state refuses to accept Judge Camela C. Theeler's ruling that Speaker Jon Hansen once again disregarded the First Amendment when he pushed the initiative petition deadline back from May to February with 2025 House Bill 1184. But even as their appeal to the Eighth Circuit brews, the state at least acknowledges that, when they lose, they'll have to pay Rick Weiland and Dakotans for Health…

In the early 90s, Donald Trump judged contestants at the world’s biggest modelling competition - since hit by allegations of abuse. This is how the people who were there remember it

Every permit written on public lands since 1996 may have be rendered invalid

Thirty of Ross' trademark landscapes will be sold at a series of auctions starting in November. He painted many of them live on The Joy of Painting, which started airing on PBS in the 1980s.