James Wangsness News Today

Fewer than 2 out of 10 South Dakota voters went to the polls Tuesday in a primary election dominated by fallout from a legislative debate over landowner rights, which caused Republican turnover.

It’s primary day in South Dakota, with 45 legislative contests receiving much of the attention and various local races and issues also appearing on ballots around the state.

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed legislation earlier this month banning companies based in six adversarial countries, including China, from

Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signed legislation earlier this month banning companies based in six adversarial countries, including China, from owning or leasing agricultural land that contains a carveout for a major Chinese-owned employer in her state.

Kristi Noem told the DCNF a CCP-tied pork company was a threat to national security; she signed legislation that will allow it to lease agricultural land.

"Protecting ag land from foreign ownership is matter of national security," bill sponsor Republican Rep. James Wangsness said. Particularly ownership based in the six banned nations, bill supporters said.

All three District 23 South Dakota legislators - Bryan Breitling, Scott Moore, and James Wangsness - stopped b...

The two spending bills will fund the construction of a new womens prison in Rapid City and the purchase of land for a mens prison in Sioux Falls.

The center would have made all six public universities partners in creating a new K-12 curriculum on “American history and exceptionalism.”

A bill responding to a drag show at South Dakota State University last year passed the House State Affairs committee 11-1.