An incarceration summer study committee will convene for its first of three meetings on June 23, to examine SD's prison population and trends.

Rampant crime has overcome the largest Native American reservation in South Dakota and the federal government has stalled in helping to beef up law enforcement there, according to its tribal leader.

Waters is Native American and Sharp is white, and their conflicting sentences are not unique in South Dakota. Native Americans who plead guilty to first-degree manslaughter in South Dakota receive ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Officials in South Dakota are pushing hard to build President Donald Trump ‘s proposed National Garden of American Heroes in the Black Hills near Mount Rushmore, but the ...

The South Dakota Department of Education has posted data from 2023-24, which shows Native American chronic absenteeism at 51% at public schools, compared to the state average of 21%.

Native Americans also account for 75% of the victims in the 79 police-involved shootings in South Dakota between 2001 and 2023, according to data from the Rapid City-based activist group NDN ...

A South Dakota airman accused of killing a Native American woman at Ellsworth Air Force Base has now been charged with first-degree murder and could face the death penalty if convicted.. Airman ...

Frank Kills in Water, board chair of the South Dakota Native Tourism Alliance, said the organization is primed to enter the next phase of its work during an interview with SDPB on Oct. 12, 2024 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A 24-year-old airman has been charged with killing a Native American woman who went missing in South Dakota about seven months ago. Quinterius Chappelle, 24, made his ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A 24-year-old airman has been charged with killing a Native American woman who went missing in South Dakota about seven months ago.