Although officially nonpartisan, state Supreme Court candidates line up with either the Democratic or Republican parties in ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was confirmed by the U.S. Senate and will lead the Department of Homeland Security ...

A $50 million appropriation to advance new literacy teaching programs has remained unspent because of a dispute between ...

A bill in Congress would allow victims of felonies committed by undocumented immigrants to sue localities that don't ...

President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance spoke at the anti-abortion movement’s annual March for Life rally on ...

Seth is editor-in-chief of South Dakota Searchlight. He was previously a supervising senior producer for South Dakota Public ...

Brandon covers North Carolina government and state politics for NC Newsline. NC Newsline is part of States Newsroom, the ...

Sen. John Jagler, Rep. Robert Wittke and Rep. Todd Novak say the bill is needed to “reinstate” high academic standards in ...

Each session the Assembly Speaker has the responsibility for determining the number of members per committee and ratios of ...

Gov. Tony Evers is calling on state lawmakers to include $500 million in the 2025-27 budget to help support child care.

There is no carve-out for immigrant children, so the bill requires them to be detained if they are accused or charged with ...

Brooke Rollins likely has the support to secure Senate confirmation, though members from both political parties raised ...