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A rare tie-breaking vote by Lt. Gov. Tony Venhuizen sent Senate Bill 25 to the House Wednesday, after the Senate split 17-17 on final passage. Venhuizen, who presides over the Senate and votes only in...

The South Dakota Senate has approved a new optional license plate design that could generate millions of dollars a year for road maintenance. Senate Bill 24 creates a solid-background license plate op...

A South Dakota Senate committee voted Wednesday to kill a bill that would have set nearly all local property tax levies at zero, citing a lack of a funding plan and concerns about local control. The S...

Flu season arrives every year, but public health officials are watching this one a little more closely because of a newly dominant strain of influenza A(H3N2) that emerged after this season's vaccine ...

A Senate committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would give landlords more time to return security deposits, a change supporters said reflects real-world repair delays while keeping strict tenant prote...

Two bills aimed at easing staffing pressures on South Dakota ambulance services advanced Tuesday from the House Health and Human Services Committee, with supporters saying the measures clarify liabili...

South Dakota's Pennington County has agreed to stop jailing people who can't afford the daily fees tied to the state's 24/7 Sobriety Program. The decision comes as part of a federal classaction settle...

A proposal to change how South Dakota distributes money from its main economic development fund stalled Friday after a tied vote in the Senate State Affairs Committee. Senate Bill 1, which would revis...

Lawmakers questioned Friday whether South Dakota's ambulance services can remain viable amid aging equipment, reliance on volunteers, and limited reimbursement during a Senate Health and Human Service...

Gov. Larry Rhoden on Thursday signed an executive order establishing formal guidelines for how his administration will award and oversee grants from South Dakota's Future Fund, a long-running economic...