Stephanie Herseth News

He's the cowboy hat wearing, horseback riding, rancher running for governor of South Dakota.

Almost five years after narrowly unseating then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Republican John Thune is the one wearing the bull's-eye. Up for re-election in 2010 as a leader of his party, Thune must perform the same juggling act between national politics and state interests that Daschle bobbled in 2004 while campaigning for a fourth term.

Acres of pine trees in the Black Hills National Forest have fallen prey to the mountain pine beetle, and Sen.

Turning $1 into $20 sounds like magic but that's exactly what the government says will happen once it's invested.

A U.S. Treasury Department official was in Kyle, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, on Wednesday to announce $11.3 million from the agency's Community Development Financial Institutions fund and the economic stimulus act for economically distressed Native communities nationwide.

Health Care Debate by KDLT News Posted on 30 June 2009 With health care reform underway in congress, Senator Tim Johnson and Representative Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin turn to South Dakotans for help in the debate.

WASHINGTON - Forget the Super Bowl or a Broadway hit. South Dakota school principal Todd Foster and his family scored one of the nation's hottest tickets earlier this month: a White House tour.

Here's how Oklahoma's House of Representatives members voted on key bills and amendments.

Congressional lawmakers' eagerness to reduce global warming and wean America off foreign oil by emphasizing renewable energy should breathe fresh air into South Dakota's wind industry.

The national commander of The American Legion says he is greatly encouraged by the swiftness of bipartisan action taken by members of the U.S. House of Representatives to assure timely enactment of several pieces of legislation important to the interests of America's military veterans.

On Tuesday, June 23, 2009, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Bob Filner announced that the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1211, a bill to expand and improve health care services available to women veterans provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs .

Scott Munsterman, one of four Republicans running for governor, says public education in South Dakota needs a major overhaul.

Each year in South Dakota, almost one in five individuals on Medicare are re-admitted to the hospital within 30 days of their first visit.

Rarely does a letter to the editor combine seething outrage, firebrand religious fundamentalism and intellectual vacuity more deftly than John Shaw's letter in the June 9 Argus Leader: 'Moral terrorists.' I wish to offer here a much-needed rebuttal to Shaw's outlandish and comical screed, which represents a particularly insidious type of threat to ...

The Federal Communications Commission will hold a workshop and roundtable in Rapid City and Pine Ridge July 27-29 as part of its efforts through the Indian Telecommunications Initiative.

Ellsworth Air Force Base's Future by KDLT News Posted on 17 June 2009 In 2005 the Ellsworth Air Force Base avoided a closure.

Posted by: Todd Epp - 06/15/2009 10:22 PM This just in from State Sen. Frank Kloucek .

Congress is poised to defy our American principles of 'all men are created equal,' 'equal protection under the law' and 'freedom of speech' by affirming the Hate Crimes Law.

WASHINGTON - Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin has one less house to worry about. Max Sandlin, the former Texas congressman who married then-Stephanie Herseth in 2007, sold his home in Marshall, Texas, last year and now is a South Dakota resident complete with state driver's license and voter registration card, said Russ Levsen, the congresswoman's ...

Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin has taken some heat during the past few months, preaching fiscal discipline while voting for an almost $800 billion economic stimulus bill that further ballooned the federal debt.