Gov. Kristi Noem’s heated rhetoric on immigration belies a stark economic reality in her own state: With unemployment at 1.9% — the lowest in the country — South Dakota faces an acute labor shortage a ...

Like most library lovers, I don’t much care for Gov. Kristi Noem’s recent proposal to cut the South Dakota State Library’s 2026 fiscal year budget by $1 million, Rapid City's Mary Garrigan writes ...