North and South Dakota were admitted as the 39th and 40th states in 1889. Because of controversy over which state should be signed into the Union first, President Benjamin Harrison did not record ...

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem will be the nation’s next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security after the U.S. Senate confirmed her nomination Saturday. The 53-year-old Noem, a ...

Rhoden, who before had walked the halls like any other Capitol ... national and state holiday. Noem praised Rhoden in the column titled ‘My Great Honor’ and said South Dakota’s people ...