When reviewing county-level data, researchers found at least 20% of adults in 57 of South Dakota’s 67 counties reported excessive drinking. Marshall County, located in the state’s northeast ...

T he $3 million that South Dakota will send to counties in the coming weeks for their indigent legal service expenses will cover less than 12% of the collective amount of those costs incurred by ...

Three rural South Dakota counties are set to vote Tuesday on whether they will return to counting ballots by hand, an initiative based on concerns stemming from machine tabulation.

Deuel County (1871-1873) was originally created in 1862 in what is now South Dakota but land that included portions of present-day Richland and Ransom counties was added to it on Jan. 13, 1871.

DeSersa oversaw Tripp County’s 2022 general election hand-counting effort, when it was the only county in South Dakota to hand-count all its ballots.

These are the most Democratic counties in South Dakota. All historical, county-level, voting statistics are from the MIT Election Data and Science Lab’s County Presidential Election Returns 2000 ...

See our complete South Dakota U.S. House Election Results for all districts, including county-by-county maps and breakdowns: For more elections results from local South Dakota election races, read ...

Stacker compiled a list of counties with the most seniors in South Dakota using data from the U.S. Census Bureau.Counties are ranked by the highest percentage of residents 65 years or older ...

(TNS) — South Dakota counties are easy prey for hackers to thrive on. That was the message from Rep. Roger Chase, of Huron, during a recent meeting of the Study Committee on County Funding and ...

For the past 10 years, South Dakota has funneled a half-million dollars of the sin tax bounty it collects annually from tobacco users into mosquito control grants for cities and counties.

Voters in at least three rural South Dakota counties are set to decide Tuesday whether to return to counting ballots by hand, the latest communities around the country to consider ditching machine ...

South Dakota's first two human West Nile virus cases of the year have been reported in Spink and Minnehaha counties, according to a news release from the state health department. Since 2002, 2,681 ...