Articles by Travis Kriens

Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch IGLOO, S.D. – David Streeter thought abandoning his traditional life to relocate into a survival bunker in South Dakota would allow his family to retreat from the stresses, [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight A trust controlled by a South Dakota regulator’s relatives still owns land along a proposed pipeline route, but the regulator has not recused herself from the project’s second permit application [Read More…]

Clark Kauffman, Iowa Capital Dispatch The former attorney general of South Dakota is objecting to a proposed six-month suspension of his Iowa law license due to his involvement in a 2020 traffic fatality. In September, [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight – One of the former state of South Dakota employees accused in a recent string of criminal cases took a plea deal Monday and was sentenced to serve probation and pay fines [Read More…]

Seth Tupper, South Dakota Searchlight The federal government approved a 20-year ban Thursday on new mining-related activity in a portion of South Dakota’s Black Hills. The ban covers 32 square miles of federally owned land located about [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight The trouble signs started about a year in. B.J. Olson had opened his medical cannabis dispensary, called “Unity Rd.,” in the summer of 2022, less than a month after medical [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight Legislators could soon be asked to impose a higher tax on employers to cover the administrative expenses of the state’s unemployment assistance program, but a lower tax to fund the [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch IGLOO, S.D. – A former military munitions site with concrete bunkers now used as residences has become the source of numerous lawsuits, several complaints to the South Dakota [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight CANTON — Commissioners in South Dakota’s fastest-growing county punted on four carbon dioxide pipeline ordinances on Christmas Eve, opting to let their planning staff and two new commissioners start from [Read More…]

Mary Steurer, North Dakota Monitor The owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline last week became the latest party to join the defense in the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s new lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley and Yankton County State’s Attorney-Elect Tyler Larsen announce that Andrew Jondahl of Watertown has been indicted on four charges in connection with an officer involved shooting that [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Yankton man has been indicted on one count of Second Degree Murder and one count of Manslaughter in the First Degree in connection [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota high school students will pay 50% more to take dual credit courses if legislators adopt a budget proposal by Republican Gov. Kristi Noem. Currently, students pay one-third of [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight Amy Willis says she’s not a criminal. When she entered the U.S. Capitol with a crowd of protesters who’d been urged by Donald Trump to “stop the steal” of the [Read More…]