PIERRE — After 144 years, South Dakota lawmakers decided Tuesday it’s time for “the Hill” to retire. The required two-thirds of each legislative chamber voted to endorse a 1,500-bed, $650 million ...

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Those familiar with the effort say there is no clear national security justification for such a facility in South Dakota, where DHS Secretary Kristi Noem served as governor.

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Kristen Kilcoin has experienced the good and the bad of the nearly three-year project to rebuild and widen a long stretch of U.S. 385, the only major north-south highway through the central Black ...

South Dakota lawmakers approved a $650 million plan to build a new 1,500-bed men's state penitentiary. The new prison will replace the 144-year-old facility known as "the Hill" and will be located in ...