Makenzie Huber

SIOUX FALLS — Roblox, a gaming platform popular with children, will pay South Dakota nearly $10 million over four years and implement new protections

Roblox, a gaming platform popular with children, will pay South Dakota nearly $10 million over four years.

Lawmakers approved rules allowing up to $30 million in loans from a state housing infrastructure fund to help finance airport expansion projects in Rapid City and Sioux Falls

State House Speaker Jon Hansen, R-Dell Rapids, listens to a committee hearing at the South Dakota Capitol in Pierre on Jan. 23, 2026. Hansen was one of two lawmakers who voted against rules Tuesday allowing a state housing infrastructure fund to be used for airport improvement loans.

12,617 Republican voters statewide have cast ballots in the Republican governor runoff so far — about 3,300 more than ahead of the primary.

Advance voting in the runoff for the South Dakota Republican nomination for governor is ahead of the pace it was on for the primary election, and some county election officials are attributing it to people switching parties.

Map shows South Dakota's seven circuit courts. The Unified Judicial System is proposing merging the Fourth and Seventh circuit courts in western South Dakota.

South Dakota's governor reflects on his ranching roots and three decades in politics ahead of the Republican runoff.

PIERRE — Advance voting in the runoff for the South Dakota Republican nomination for governor is ahead of the pace it was on for the primary

Advance voting is up 35% as South Dakota voters switch parties to join the Republican gubernatorial runoff.