It’s a dispute that started about a year ago in the remote stretches of the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands of western South ...

South Dakota ranchers Charles and Heather Maude visited the U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters after criminal ...

Ranchers and their elected representatives have won a major battle. The federal government dropped criminal charges against ...

Heather and Charles Maude are ranchers from the Caputa area. Federal prosecutors recently dropped land theft charges against ...

Charles and Heather Maude were subject to a "politically charged" prosecution under the Biden administration, the Trump ...

The Biden-era prosecution of fifth-generation South Dakota ranchers over a 75-year-old fence line came to an end Wednesday.

The morning following the announcement that criminal charges for theft of federal property were dismissed, Charles and Heather Maude said they’re ready to return home to South Dakota. Kennedy Maude, ...

South Dakota’s Maude family took center stage Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in a Washington, D.C., press conference to announce ...

Charles and Heather Maude spoke on April 30 at a news conference in Washington, D.C., along with U.S. Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins, members of the state's Congressional delegation and others.

South Dakota ranchers Charles and Heather Maude had been accused of improperly using Forest Service land. The charges were ...

The federal government has dropped criminal charges against S.D. ranchers Charles and Heather Maude, ending a high-profile ...

The federal land dispute with the Maude family, who live near Caputa, began in 2024 over a fence line that the USDA said was ...