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7 days ago
MONUMENT COULD LOSE MILLIONS DUE TO SANFORD HEALTH EXPANSION
RAPID CITY, SD (Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch) – Monument Health could lose $40 million a year in…
7 days ago
CHINA SOYBEAN PLEDGE LIFTS PRICES, BUT SOUTH DAKOTA FARMERS STILL NERVOUS
SOUTH DAKOTA (Joshua Haiar / South Dakota Searchlight) – South Dakota soybean industry leaders said Monday that a new trade pledge…
1 week ago
FEEDING SOUTH DAKOTA DISTRIBUTES THANSGIVING MEALS
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – Feeding South Dakota has been distributing Thanksgiving Meals all month long to those…
1 week ago
SOUTH DAKOTA CONTINUES TO INCENTIVIZE DAIRIES AS INDUSTRY STRUGGLES TO FIND WORKERS
SOUTH DAKOTA (Makenzie Huber / South Dakota Searchlight) – As some South Dakota dairy farmers struggle to find workers and as…
1 week ago
DCI INVESTIGATES OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING IN BERESFORD, SD
BERESFORD, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley says the Division of Criminal Investigation is looking into an officer-involved shooting…
2 weeks ago
SOUTH DAKOTA OPEN MEETINGS, VIOLATIONS FOUND AND TASK FORCE FORMED
PIERRE, S.D. (South Dakota Searchlight /Joshua Haiar) – The Lincoln County Commission violated South Dakota’s open-meetings laws when three commissioners attended…
2 weeks ago
IOWA NURSING HOME OWNER FACES 17 CLAIMS OVER RESIDENT DEATHS OR HARM
WEST DES MOINES, IA (Iowa Capitol Dispatch) – An Iowa nursing home company has faced at least 17 wrongful-death and…
2 weeks ago
NORTHWESTERN ENERGY PLANS SECOND NATURAL GAS PLANT IN ABERDEEN AS ELECTRICITY DEMAND GROWS
ABERDEEN, S.D. (Makenzie Huber / South Dakota Searchlight) – NorthWestern Energy is planning to build a second natural gas plant to…
2 weeks ago
CANDIDATES COULD PAY THEIR WAY ONTO BALLOT UNDER IDEA PROPOSED BY SOUTH DAKOTA’S TOP ELECTION OFFICIAL
PIERRE, S.D. (Joshua Haiar / South Dakota Searchlight) – South Dakota’s top election official floated potential legislation Tuesday that would allow…
2 weeks ago
GOVERNOR LARRY RHODEN ANNOUNCES BID FOR RE-ELECTION
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Governor Larry Rhoden announced his bid for re-election on Tuesday. The Governor stood before his…
2 weeks ago
REMAINDER OF SNAP PAYMENTS TO BE ISSUED THIS WEEK IN SOUTH DAKOTA
PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Department of Social Services will be issuing the remainder of November SNAP benefits this week.…
2 weeks ago
SUSPECTED OVERDOSE DEATH OF INMATE UNDER INVESTIGATION
SPRINGFIELD, S.D. – Attorney General Marty Jackley says the South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating a suspected drug overdose…
2 weeks ago
$300 MILLION INVESTMENT WILL BRING SANFORD HEALTHCARE TO RAPID CITY
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – People in Rapid City will soon have another option for healthcare services. Monday, South Dakota…
2 weeks ago
SIOUX FALLS VICTIM LOSES OVER $200,000 AFTER SCAMMERS POSE AS FBI AGENTS
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – A Sioux Falls victim has reported losing hundreds of thousands of dollars after…
2 weeks ago
NOEM’S USES OF CREDIT CARDS AND AN ECONOMIC FUND CAUSE LAWMAKERS TO PROPOSE RESTRICTIONS
PIERRE, S.D. (Joshua Haiar / South Dakota Searchlight) – A committee of South Dakota lawmakers expressed support Thursday for legislative…
2 weeks ago
MULTIPLE INJURIES REPORTED AFTER CRASH INVOLVING REMSEN ST. MARY’S BASKETBALL TEAM
SIOUX CITY (KTIV) – First responders were sent to a crash on Highway 75, near the Plymouth and Woodbury County…
3 weeks ago
WYOMING LAWMAKERS ADVANCE ‘GEOENGINEERING’ BAN FOLLOWING CONCERNS OF HARMFUL ‘CHEMTRAILS’
CHEYENNE, WY (Noah Zahn / Wyoming Tribune Eagle) – Claims that “chemtrails” from government or private jets are poisoning citizens,…
3 weeks ago
BLACK HILLS ENERGY WORKS TO RESTORE POWER AFTER SYSTEM WIDE OUTAGE
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Utility companies continue the work to restore power to people following an outage that affected…
3 weeks ago
MATH EDUCATORS PUSH STATE BOARD TO KEEP CURRENT STANDARDS IN PLACE
SIOUX FALLS — Calls to retain South Dakota’s current math standards continued at the state Board of Education Standards meeting…
3 weeks ago
SENATOR ROUNDS SAYS SPENDING BILL INCLUDES $21.9 MILLION OF HIS REQUESTS FOR SOUTH DAKOTA PROJECTS
WASHINGTON, D.C. (South Dakota Searchlight) – U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, said a stopgap spending bill to reopen the federal…
