In an effort to enhance the state’s ability to address evolving threats, the Virginia State Police has established a new Homeland Security Division (HSD).

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong threatened to file a lawsuit against President-elect Trump if he moves to remove ...

Viewed in a bemused spirit, 2024 provided (in Mark Twain’s words) “not merely food for laughter,” but “an entire banquet.” Begin with the Texan who, preparing to run for president, ...

In his appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court, Ravnsborg said Gov. Kristi Noem “did everything she could to intimidate, interfere ...

From state employee embezzlement cases to a record number of homicides in Sioux Falls, 2024 has been a year packed with ...

As 2024 comes to a close, here’s a look back at South Dakota Searchlight’s most-read news stories and commentary of the year, ...

In September, the South Dakota Supreme Court suspended for six months the South Dakota law license of Jason Ravnsborg, who served as that state’s attorney general from 2019 until his impeachment and ...

Donald Trump, facilitated by the votes of 77 million Americans who forgot that his insurrection killed several police ...

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem’s years of devotion to President-elect Donald Trump may have finally paid off.

Hosts like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Kimmel appealed to our funny bones in the face of a ludicrous Republican Party, whose billionaire clown-king leader makes it a lot ...

Homan, who was acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during Trump’s first term, is set to serve ...

What Sandra Pineda remembers most is the fear. On Dec. 12, 2006, Pineda woke up from a night shift at the Swift meatpacking ...