Governor Rhoden’s budget proposal contains three spending items recommended by the Governor’s Resilient Infrastructure Task Force otherwise known as GRIT.

In some of his first public remarks since taking the helm of the Department of Corrections, Secretary Nick Lamb told an ...

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight In some of his first public remarks since taking the helm of the South Dakota Department ...

South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden is recommending that no additional state funding be sent to South Dakota schools. That was ...

Governor Larry Rhoden will deliver his 2025 Budget Address to the South Dakota Legislature live from the South Dakota House of Representatives.

South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden presented his first solo budget to a joint session of the South Dakota Legislature Tuesday at the State Capitol in Pierre. Rhoden says while there will be no ...

In his first budget address Tuesday, Rhoden said the state’s $7.44 billion proposal reflects limited growth in sales tax revenue, which has dropped for only the third time in 30 years. Planned ...

With sales tax revenues down, Gov. Larry Rhoden proposes no spending increases for health care and education and no raises ...

Rhoden pointed to a larger time frame, as funding over the past eight years has been 6.2% ahead of what was required.

Educating our youth has got to be one of the foremost, predominant things our state looks at,” Nold said. “To hear 0% is ...