Month: November 2024

South Dakota Searchlight – It’s Election Day 2024, and South Dakota polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. local time. Registered voters searching for their polling place can find it in the state’s [Read More…]

Grassland and other conservation projects in SD receive $83 million federal boost

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Six projects in South Dakota will receive a combined $83 million in grants from the federal government for grassland conservation and climate-smart agricultural practices, according to a recent announcement by the U.S. [Read More…]

Timmer’s Triple Completes SDSU Comeback at Rice

HOUSTON – South Dakota State women’s basketball won its season opener over Rice in comeback fashion Monday night. Down 10 points with less than five minutes to play, the Jackrabbits outscored the Owls 18-6 over the [Read More…]

Coyote Women Drop Opener to St. Louis in Overtime

VERMILLION, S.D. – The South Dakota women’s basketball program overcame a double-digit second half deficit to force overtime, but ultimately it was the Saint Louis Billikens who came away with the 85-83 victory on the [Read More…]

South Dakota opens season with 93-79 win over Southern

VERMILLION, S.D. — South Dakota men’s basketball opened the 2024-25 campaign with a 93-79 win over Southern in the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. Eleven players took the floor for the Yotes tonight, and all 11 players [Read More…]

Jacks Open Season with Win in Sioux Falls over McNeese State

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota State thwarted multiple McNeese State comeback bids and maintained a lead over the final 14 minutes of action as the Jackrabbits earned an 80-73 victory on Monday, Nov. 4, over [Read More…]

South Dakota High School Volleyball Media Polls – November 4

Here is the South Dakota Media volleyball poll for the week of Nov. 4, 2024. Teams are listed with first place votes in parenthesis, record, points and previous ranking. NOTE: This is the final media [Read More…]

Political friction adds stress to South Dakota election process

Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch The runup to a major election can be a hectic time for election officials, whose tasks include training poll workers, testing tabulators, processing absentee ballots and providing voter [Read More…]

Large lithium batteries next step in South Dakota wind power growth

Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch WAVERLY, S.D. – Retiree A.J. Howey has a hard time understanding why a Florida energy company would build a set of industrial-sized lithium-ion batteries near his rural homestead [Read More…]

Quincy Jones, hitmaking producer and music industry titan, dead at 91

Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images Quincy Jones, a longtime music industry powerhouse and hitmaking producer of multi-platinum albums, including Michael Jackson‘s Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, died on Sunday. He was 91. His death was [Read More…]

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ repeats at No. 1 with $26.1 million weekend

©2024 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Venom: The Last Dance topped the North American box office for the second straight week, delivering an estimated $26.1 million and bringing its two-week total to $90 million. The [Read More…]

What are the key issues for voters in swing states that could decide election?

Allison Joyce/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — All eyes will be on the key swing states as votes are counted in the match-up between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump. Both candidates [Read More…]

Election fact check: Minor glitches at a few isolated polling places do not indicate widespread fraud

Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Election officials across the country are trying to prepare for what’s out of their control. When millions of Americans head to the polls on Tuesday, some voters might encounter [Read More…]

One man’s mission to restore felony voting rights in Florida

FRRC (TALLAHASSEE, FL) — Desmond Meade was recalling to a church congregation in Apopka, Florida, earlier this month a dark time in his life. “Not too long ago, I was standing in front of the [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza-Lebanon live updates: Israel notifies UN of UNRWA work termination

Omar Al-Qattaa via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Israel Defense Forces continued its intense airstrike and ground campaigns in Gaza — particularly in the north of the strip — and in Lebanon, with Israeli attacks [Read More…]

Darnold throws 3 TD passes in 2nd half as Vikings overcome 3 turnovers to beat Flacco, Colts 21-13

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Wherever this strong start to the season winds up leading the Minnesota Vikings, it’s clear that belief and resilience will be responsible for a significant measure of their success. Sam Darnold overcame four [Read More…]

Codington County Fatal Crash Southwest of Watertown

Codington County, S.D.- A Watertown man died Saturday morning in a single vehicle crash 10 miles southwest of Watertown, SD. The name of the person involved have not been released pending notification of family members. Preliminary [Read More…]

Seven ballot measures, $7 million and counting: Reports reveal total spending

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Ballot question campaigns in South Dakota had collectively spent about $7 million this year by their Oct. 21 reporting deadline, according to a South Dakota Searchlight analysis, and they’ve likely [Read More…]

Justice Department to monitor voting law compliance in tribal areas and Minnehaha County

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight The U.S. Department of Justice will monitor polling places to ensure voting rights in South Dakota’s most-populated county and three Native American-majority counties on Election Day. Alison Ramsdell, U.S. attorney [Read More…]

Researchers test for ‘forever chemicals’ in Big Sioux River