The Senate on Saturday approved the nomination of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), putting her at the center of an administration focused heavily on ...

The two term South Dakota Gov. was tapped by Trump in Nov. and will be key in enacting the new president's mass deportation ...

In 2024, all nine South Dakota tribes banished Noem from their lands due to her defamatory comments. The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe was the final tribe to banish her. The governor had repeatedly ...

Larry Rhoden, the right-hand man of South Dakota's first female governor, Kristi Noem, has officially succeeded to the state's highest office. Rhoden, formerly the 39th lieutenant governor of ...

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“Governor Noem has expeditiously completed all her paperwork, but we are waiting for the FBI to complete their portion of the paperwork,” an insider told Politico earlier this week. But ...

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., praised Trump's Department of Homeland Secretary nominee Kristi Noem Friday as someone uniquely well-positioned to head up the sprawling federal agency. As governor of ...

A co-op of ethnic German Hutterite farmers, who arrived in the 19th century, own the Dakota Provisions plant. But migrants from Venezuela, Thailand and other countries, earning around $14 per hour, ...

Governor Larry Rhoden has invited President Donald Trump to once again celebrate Independence Day in South Dakota.

The firebrand governor rose to prominence during COVID-19. Kristi Noem, South Dakota's firebrand Republican governor, faced questioning Friday at her confirmation hearing to be secretary of ...

Larry Rhoden, the right-hand man of South Dakota's first female governor, Kristi Noem, has officially succeeded to the ...