State and local leaders broke ground on the costliest state-funded capital project in South Dakota history on Wednesday, with ...

According to the DOC’s 2025 annual report, half of the people released from prison in South Dakota return within three years.

After five years of debates and task forces, there will be a new prison in Sioux Falls. The state broke ground on the new ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Republican Lt. Governor Tony Venhuizen said he was one of the 517 registered Republican voters contacted by Emerson College polling to answer questions for the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Eventually, a new men’s prison will go up in Sioux Falls. But conversations about how better days can follow a sentence will take place well before then. South Dakota ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — In the South Dakota Capitol on the morning of September 23, the state’s lieutenant governor, Tony Venhuizen, will make the short walk up the carpeted steps to reach the rostrum ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — It has been a long process, but the new men’s prison in Sioux Falls has taken a step forward.

A Northwestern College faculty member briefed the South Dakota Correctional Rehabilitation Task Force on Wednesday about ...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — What had gone around once before came around again Tuesday afternoon, as the South Dakota Senate argued whether to make permanent the 4.2% temporary sales and use tax rate. How ...

South Dakotans now know the people chosen to help shape the future of the state’s correctional rehabilitation services ahead of the construction of a new prison in Sioux Falls. Gov. Larry Rhoden ...

On February 20, the South Dakota Senate considered Senate Bill 218, a measure to authorize publicly funded charter schools in the state. The vote resulted in a 17-17 tie, with Lt. Governor Tony ...