State Senator Taffy Howard says she and others are anticipating legislation around data centers next legislative session.

A proposal to cut state government funds as a means of reducing property taxes for South Dakota homeowners received the OK ...

Thirty years after a property-tax revolt threatened to upend funding for South Dakota’s county governments and public school ...

South Dakota’s property tax task has its final meeting next week. The task force previously set a goal of reducing owner ...

The governor-appointed panel that loans state government funds to businesses at low interest rates is making changes that some South Dakota lawmakers don’t like. But that didn’t stop a majority of the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – As talk increases of a $14 billion data center in South Dakota, questions about the environmental and economic impact have come up. Commissioners in Deuel County heard ...

Local businesswoman Taffy Howard has announced her candidacy for a South Dakota House of Representatives District 33 seat. “I believe my leadership experience in the U.S. Air Force, in small business ...

Rep. Taffy Howard, R-Rapid City, was not invited and said she felt excluded because of her conservative beliefs. “Those of us who are more conservative, we looked right away at who was going and who ...

If South Dakota’s average teacher salary matched the state’s target teacher salary, the state would have ranked 38th in the nation this year for average teacher pay. Instead, it ranked 46th at an ...

A bill barring cities, counties or schools from acting as safe havens for undocumented immigrants in South Dakota is headed to the governor’s desk after a 62-6 vote in the state House of ...