The Biden-era prosecution of fifth-generation South Dakota ranchers over a 75-year-old fence line came to an end Wednesday.

It’s a dispute that started about a year ago in the remote stretches of the Buffalo Gap National Grasslands of western South ...

Ranchers and their elected representatives have won a major battle. The federal government dropped criminal charges against ...

Charles and Heather Maude were subject to a "politically charged" prosecution under the Biden administration, the Trump ...

South Dakota ranchers Charles and Heather Maude had been accused of improperly using Forest Service land. The charges were ...

The morning following the announcement that criminal charges for theft of federal property were dismissed, Charles and Heather Maude said they’re ready to return home to South Dakota. Kennedy Maude, ...

Heather and Charles Maude are ranchers from the Caputa area. Federal prosecutors recently dropped land theft charges against ...

The Trump Administration has announced that they are dropping charges over a land dispute against a West River South Dakota ...

The federal government has dropped criminal charges against S.D. ranchers Charles and Heather Maude, ending a high-profile ...

South Dakota’s Maude family took center stage Wednesday, April 30, 2025, in a Washington, D.C., press conference to announce ...

Trump administration announces that the government has dropped criminal charges against small South Dakota ranch family.

The federal land dispute with the Maude family, who live near Caputa, began in 2024 over a fence line that the USDA said was ...