South Dakota’s tribes barred the governor from setting foot on their land after she said drug cartels operate there — an allegation the nations’ leaders deny.

The last South Dakota tribe to formally banish Gov. Kristi Noem from their lands is now the first to undo the restriction

The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe has announced that they have removed their banishment of South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem.

Noem's role as Homeland Security secretary is expected to be more limited in scope than her predecessors’, sources familiar with the Trump transition tell NBC News.

Noem's role as Homeland Security secretary is expected to be more limited in scope than her predecessors’, sources familiar with the Trump transition tell NBC News.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who is term-limited in her second term as governor, is nominated as the next potential secretary of Homeland Security.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem used her State of the State address on Tuesday to say goodbye. Noem is expected to resign sometime after President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, if the U.

Governor Noem gave Lieutenant Governor Larry Rhoden a baseball bat with the message that it is his turn, as well as the 100th legislatures' turn, to step up to the plate in her absence. In the speech,