Month: October 2025

This year’s World Dairy Expo Dairy Producer of the Year is always seeking ways to improve the farming operation. Ken McCarty tells Brownfield they were milking around 800 cows in the early 1990s and now [Read More…]

Ag News

Trump: USMCA renewal TBD

U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday all options are on the table as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is renegotiated. “We could renegotiate it and that would be good, or we could just do different [Read More…]

Ag News

Managing on-farm grain storage is key this fall

As more grain is stored on-farm this fall, an economist at CoBank reminds farmers it costs to be your own grain elevator. Tanner Ehmke tells Brownfield “grain sitting in the grain bin is like cash [Read More…]

Mitchell Boys Golf Ends Season with 7th Place Finish at State

RAPID CITY, S.D. – Mitchell Kernels boys golf wrapped up its 2025 season on Tuesday with a seventh place finish at the Class AA State Tournament at Meadowbrook Golf Course in Rapid City. The Kernels [Read More…]

Four Jacks Named to Preseason Teams, SDSU Women Picked to Finish First

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – South Dakota State was tabbed to hoist the Summit League Women’s Basketball regular season trophy and Jackrabbit forward Brooklyn Meyer once again was named the Preseason Player of the Year for the 2025-26 season, League [Read More…]

SDSU Men Picked Third, Garry Recognized in Summit League Preseason Poll

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The Summit League announced its 2025-26 preseason poll and All-Summit League preseason teams on Tuesday, Oct. 7, prior to its Basketball Media Day at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center. South Dakota State [Read More…]

Vikings lean again on strong team chemistry to fuel clutch win despite adverse circumstances

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings trailed Cleveland by three points with 3:05 left in London to salvage an arduous road trip, with this season of high expectations at an unexpectedly early crossroad. The circumstances were hardly ideal. [Read More…]

Rehabilitation task force will pick up prison population talks where lawmakers left off

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Voices from South Dakota’s Legislature, judiciary, schools, law enforcement, mental health, tribal health and nonprofit spheres will pick up and carry on a conversation about rehabilitation and recidivism that began with [Read More…]

South Dakota has third-highest increase amid growing U.S. prison population

Amanda Hernández/Stateline The nation’s prison population grew for the second consecutive year in 2023, reversing more than a decade of steady decline. A new prison population report from the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, released before the [Read More…]

Trump says he’d consider invoking the Insurrection Act: What does that mean?

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office at the White House on October 06, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump and other cabinet secretaries spoke on an executive order that will increase the development and [Read More…]

Nicole Kidman steps out with daughters at Chanel Paris Fashion Week show amid Keith Urban divorce

Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban, Nicole Kidman and Faith Margaret Kidman-Urban attend the Chanel Womenswear Spring/Summer 2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week on October 6, 2025, in Paris, France. (Stephane Cardinale – Corbis/Corbis via Getty [Read More…]

Ag News

Cautious optimism lifts soybeans amid trade aid hopes

Soybeans were higher on short covering and technical buying. Beans remain cautiously optimistic about the prospect of a trade aid announcement this week and the end of month tariff talks with China. Still, the trade [Read More…]

Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Gov. Pritzker calls for end of Trump administration’s ‘authoritarian march’

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker speaks at a news conference October 06, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images (CHICAGO) — Members of the Texas National Guard have arrived in Illinois, according to sources familiar with [Read More…]

Air traffic controllers working without pay begin to call out sick, leading to flight cancellations and delays nationwide

Mario Tama/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A week into the government shutdown, air traffic controller sick calls are beginning to cause delays and cancellations as a number of airport towers and control facilities don’t have [Read More…]

Trial date set for former officer charged in failed response to Uvalde school shooting

A memorial is seen surrounding the Robb Elementary School sign following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 26, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) (UVALDE, Texas) — One of the two [Read More…]

Maine officials address election security after 250 ballots found in Amazon delivery

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images) (ELLSWORTH, Maine) — The Maine secretary of state’s office is investigating after 250 blank election ballots were found in a resident’s [Read More…]

Asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, space agencies say

In this screen grab from a video, the orbit of 2025 TF is shown close to Earth’s orbit. (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) (NEW YORK) — An asteroid just flew closer to Earth than many satellites, [Read More…]

Trump signals optimism about US-Canada trade agreement: ‘We’ve come a long way’

U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney at The White House on May 6, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty [Read More…]

Bondi rips Democratic senators, dodges questions on ‘weaponization’ and Homan during fiery hearing

Attorney General Pam Bondi arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, October 7, 2025 in Washington. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s tightening grip over the Justice Department to target [Read More…]

Tyler, The Creator says he’s ‘beyond grateful’ for role in ‘Marty Supreme’