Articles by Travis Kriens

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Department of Corrections will not offer a promised diesel mechanic training program in a space once occupied by a privately run metal shop that paid inmates market wages. [Read More…]

Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch  Iowa corn, soybeans, oats and hay crops all rated 80% good or excellent during the latest crop progress and condition report, even as the U.S. Drought Monitor logged most of the [Read More…]

Sheriff Steve Harr has addressed his position on the potential state prison in Davison County, acknowledging strong opinions both for and against it. Initially, many residents he spoke with supported the idea, and he signed [Read More…]

Madison McVan and Michelle Griffith/Minnesota Reformer The Minnesota Legislature was expected to pass the final bills comprising the $66 billion, 2026-27 budget in the early hours of Tuesday morning — an 8% decrease from the [Read More…]

Juan Salinas II/ Nebraska Examiner LINCOLN —  Nebraska Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Flood introduced legislation this month that would make it harder for National Weather Service employees to be fired. The bipartisan-backed bill, named the Weather [Read More…]

Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor North Dakota is being sued over a new law that requires drug manufacturers to sell more of their medications at a discount. House Bill 1473, signed by Gov. Kelly Armstrong in [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight If Republicans in the U.S. Senate pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as written, 13,000 South Dakotans would lose Medicaid and the state would lose $931 million in federal funding [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden is leading a trade mission in Israel, he announced Monday. The trade delegation is hosting a seminar “focused on recruiting foreign direct investment into the state,” according [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D.: The South Dakota Department of Public Safety (DPS) is warning residents about a scam text message campaign circulating across the state that falsely claims recipients owe traffic ticket fines and face legal action if [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Department of Health plans to send its fledgling mobile clinics to underserved and undervaccinated areas of the state in response to the nationwide measles outbreak making its way [Read More…]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Brooks Lee and Christian Vázquez hit back-to-back home runs in the fourth inning and the Minnesota Twins beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 on Sunday to avoid a sweep and snap a [Read More…]