Articles by Travis Kriens

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota public university leaders called on lawmakers Thursday in Brookings to restore $9 million in campus maintenance funding after a cut enacted by the Legislature earlier this year. “As I stated in the past, and [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch Wade Erickson doesn’t want to seem like an alarmist. But Erickson, CEO of Horizon Health Care in South Dakota, has serious concerns about how the Medicaid cuts embedded [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight Teacher contracts were signed in the spring and school district budgets were prepared months ago. But weeks before school starts, South Dakota schools are missing $25.8 million they planned to use [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – The history of nearly every South Dakota town is in some way intertwined with a church – both the institution and the building. Churches represent who we were, who we are, and, [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight Starting in August, low-income South Dakota families participating in a welfare program will receive less money to spend on necessities such as gas, groceries, utilities and rent. The benefit cut is [Read More…]

Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday night moved one step closer to canceling $9 billion in previously approved funding for several foreign aid programs and public broadcasting after GOP leaders addressed [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Funding for the B-21 bomber program, construction money to support it at a base near Rapid City, and money for a Watertown National Guard vehicle maintenance building are wins for South [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Pierre man has been sentenced to life in prison without the opportunity for parole after earlier being found guilty of Second Degree Murder in [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight SIOUX FALLS — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz regaled about a thousand people at a South Dakota Democratic Party fundraiser Saturday night with jabs at the state’s former and current governors, advice [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch WALL, S.D. – This small western South Dakota town known internationally for Wall Drug and its proximity to Badlands National Park seemed like the perfect place for Ana [Read More…]