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Gov. Dennis Daugaard and Rep. Kristi Noem remain comfortably ahead in their re-election bids this fall, according to a new Nielson Brothers Polling/Northern Plains News Poll. In the South Dakota governor's race, Daugaard, the incumbent Republican, received 53 percent, Democratic...

BROOKINGS -- The two candidates seeking the Democratic nomination for governor took opposite sides Tuesday on the death penalty, uranium mining, education funding and rural mass transit. State Rep.

The three candidates for governor split on teacher pay, Medicaid expansion and Republican control of state government for 40 years during a tight-paced one-hour forum Thursday night on South Dakota Public Television. Independent Mike Myers stood alone in calling for legalization...

PIERRE — Democratic candidate Susan Wismer and her running mate, Susy Blake, started couching their comments to supporters last weekend that the 2014 election for governor might not turn out in their favor. They had already made history. Wismer is the first woman to be the...

The three candidates for governor split on teacher pay, Medicaid expansion and Republican control of state government for 40 years during a tight-paced one-hour forum Thursday night on South Dakota Public Television. Independent Mike Myers stood alone in calling for legalization...

Gov. Dennis Daugaard and Rep. Kristi Noem remain comfortably ahead in their re-election bids this fall, according to a new Nielson Brothers Polling/Northern Plains News Poll. In the South Dakota governor's race, Daugaard, the incumbent Republican, received 53 percent, Democratic...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — The Democrat running for South Dakota governor says that if elected she would fire anyone in state government who knew about reported fraud in the EB-5 investment program. State Rep. Susan Wismer, of Britton, says she'd also sue to get money from the former...

To the Editor: The Democratic state legislators understand there is validity to the EB-5 scandal and that state money has been mismanaged, but someone must have put a gag order on the Republican legislators. They seem to be following somebody’s marching orders. When the question...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) — The Democratic candidate for South Dakota governor is asking that another member of her party sit in on a committee looking into reported misconduct with the EB-5 visa program in the Governor's Office of Economic Development Rep. Susan Wismer asked Republican...

The following is a list showing the total number of Twitter followers for each of the candidates in the major races to be decided in the upcoming November election. U.S. House of Representatives Kristi Noem (11,124 Corinna Robinson (441 U.S. Senate Rick Weiland (3,744 Mike Rounds...

Only minutes after Mike Rounds finished speaking Wednesday afternoon during a debate at Dakotafest in Mitchell, emails from supporters of one of his opponents hit inboxes attacking each of Rounds' points. Rounds, a Republican and former governor, is the presumed frontrunner in South...

Recently, I urged the Government Operations & Audit Committee to obtain more information about the management and outcome of the EB-5 program, specifically regarding Northern Beef Packers. I motioned to subpoena Joop Bollen, former director of the EB-5 program in South Dakota. While...

By Dirk Lammers SIOUX FALLS (AP) — Democratic candidate for governor Susan Wismer on Wednesday named former state lawmaker and nurse Susy Blake as her running mate. Wismer, an accountant and state representative from Britton, said she and Blake worked well together in the...

Repeating her calls for more education funding and an expansion of Medicaid in South Dakota, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Susan Wismer said she hopes to convince "disgruntled Republicans" to support her against incumbent Gov. Dennis Daugaard in the November election. Wismer...