By the time former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem gave her budget address in December, she would have less than two months left in Pierre before becoming secretary of the federal Department of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had everybody stunned when she wore a pink dress at the Governors’ Dinner at the White House.
One hundred and sixty-two years ago Dakota people were forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands in Minnesota and placed on reservations in Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota. On Tuesday the South Dakota Senate passed a resolution asking that the Dakota Removal Act be rescinded.
Republican Lt. Gov. Tony Venhuizen told lawmakers at the state Capitol that federal support for Medicaid expansion could decline.
Lawyer representing the South Dakota Governor’s Office threatened to violate First Amendment by seeking restraining order.
Kristi Noem, the new secretary of homeland security and former governor of South Dakota, threatened to give her employees lie detector tests as her department grapples with leaks.
According to the Homeland Security secretary, her department is airing pro-Trump television ads at his direction.
Supporters of the plan, including Gov. Larry Rhoden and his predecessor, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, insisted that the nearly 150-year-old South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls needs to be replaced, and waiting longer will just make ...
Gov. Kristi Noem presents her annual budget address to lawmakers in the South Dakota State Capitol on Dec. 3, 2024. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) South Dakota Republican Gov.