SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – Now that the 2024 General Election has wrapped up, lawmakers are looking ahead to what comes next.

John Thune’s victory on a secret-ballot continued the long tradition, in both parties, of elevating small-state senators to ...

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell announced he would step down from his leadership post earlier this year, ending his historic ...

The outcome of the secret leadership ballot, expected after the November election, is deeply uncertain. It’s a weighty choice ...

Thune, of South Dakota, beat out Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Rick Scott of Florida in a secret ballot election to replace Mitch McConnell.

Yet some of Thune’s own views — political and personal — don’t sync up with the leader of the Republican Party, ...

Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority leader, completing a momentous shift in their leadership that elevates a top deputy of Mitch McConnell into a key ...

A push from a Minnehaha County-based election integrity group to get Minnehaha County Auditor Leah Anderson appointed to the ...

Republicans have elected South Dakota Sen. John Thune as the next Senate majority ... as they prepare to take majority control of the Senate with the 53 seats they won in last week’s elections. It was ...

Sen. John Thune​ of South Dakota won on the second round of voting against Sen. John Cornyn​ of Texas in the race for Senate ...

The South Dakota Republican failed in his first try for the Senate but came back to defeat a chamber leader. Now he will be ...

"I'm willing to grind through it and do it the old-fashioned way," Thune told reporters regarding confirmation hearings for ...