The South Dakota National Guard presented three awards for distinguished service, including an award to the Neuhardt family of Rapid City.

If passed, the bill would require the U.S. Congress to formally declare war to deploy South Dakota National Guard members.

The governor had released this “false information,” prosecutor Kathryn Rich said, around the time she was sending the South Dakota National Guard to help patrol the southern border.

[AP Photo/Ben Curtis] In June Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, refused to send National Guard troops in response to the historic floods in her own state, citing high costs and ...