Month: May 2024

Greta Goede, South Dakota News Watch BROOKINGS, S.D. – While the average age for first-time marriages nationally has been steadily increasing since 2000, South Dakotans are among the youngest to tie the knot. The state [Read More…]

WASHINGTON — As part of its ongoing effort to replace diesel-fueled school buses, the Biden administration on Wednesday said it will provide approximately 530 school districts across nearly all states with almost $1 billion to [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight The state Board of Elections did not approve petitions Wednesday from activists who want to move the state toward hand-counting ballots. A Republican state Senate candidate, Rick Weible, of Elkton, petitioned [Read More…]

A federal judge has wrongly limited the authority of county and state officials to restrict the placement of carbon dioxide pipelines for public safety, according to several groups that are challenging the judge’s recent decisions. [Read More…]

With some parts of the country already facing heat waves, the organization in charge of setting reliability standards for the American electric grid is warning that a scorching summer could lead to a shortage of power generation in [Read More…]

Tim Henderson, Stateline More than half of the nation’s jobs created in the past five years have come in two states: Texas and Florida. They’re at the forefront of a job creation revolution in which [Read More…]

Two state prison offenders have been placed on escape status. Adam Poor Bear and Ryan Shot With Arrow left the Rapid City Minimum Center without authorization on May 29. Poor Bear, age 30, is a [Read More…]