Larry Rhoden has been serving as Kristi Noem's lieutenant governor. He'll inherit a tougher budget environment than she had.

Gov. Kristi Noem’s rise to secretary of the Department of Homeland Security would put her in charge of a sprawling federal ...

Several of Trump’s nominations— Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard to name two—are so manifestly dangerous that they may, just may, ...

President-elect Donald Trump chooses South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem as Homeland Security Secretary, despite her controversial ...

I fear she will be placed in the untenable position of having to publicly defend the Trump Administration’s most ...

It's not exactly a new Mount Rushmore, but the sparsely populated states are showing out with two Trump Cabinet picks and a ...

S.D., is now Senate majority leader; North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has been nominated to be Secretary of Interior; and South ...

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's rise to secretary of the Department of Homeland Security would put her in charge of a sprawling federal network of 22 agencies and 260,000 employees tasked with ...

John Sandweg, who served as acting director of ICE from 2013-14, said Noem's experience as governor could help prepare her for coordinating the various agencies and supervising the budget, though DHS ...