Articles by Travis Kriens

Jack O’Connor, States Newsroom Summit Carbon Solutions has purchased old land easement agreements from a former rival company to help speed up its carbon pipeline construction project, Summit officials confirm. Summit’s former rival, Navigator CO2, [Read More…]

Health researchers in South Dakota and across the U.S. want to use artificial intelligence (AI) to do things like cure cancer, predict the onset of Alzheimer’s and diabetes earlier, and diagnose and address disparities in [Read More…]

Stu Whiteney, South Dakota News Watch DETROIT – Justin Roebuck can recall the exact moment that distrust of 2020 presidential election results impacted his status in the Republican Party. The top election official of Ottawa [Read More…]

Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal A South Dakota superintendent has been fired after an Office of Civil Rights report revealed racist comments aimed at Native American students. Nicole Swigart, superintendent of Rapid City Area Schools, [Read More…]

Minnehaha County, S.D.- A motorcyclist died Friday evening in a two-vehicle crash on I-90 near Hartford, SD. The names of the persons involved have not been released pending notification of family members. Preliminary crash information indicates [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Nearly seven weeks after the devastating June 23 flood at McCook Lake, victims are still in limbo about the possibility of federal aid, and some feel abandoned by government officials. [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Black Hills Energy plans to build a new power generation plant in Rapid City for a cost between $250 million and $270 million, according to a notice sent Aug. 2 to state [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Opponents of a Nov. 5 ballot measure that would reduce state sales tax collections worry it could be the final straw that breaks South Dakota’s AAA bond rating — a [Read More…]

Seth Tupper, Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight Legislation affecting the regulation of pesticide labels has become an issue in South Dakota’s U.S. House race after a Democratic challenger leveled criticism at incumbent Republican Rep. Dusty Johnson. [Read More…]

Seth Tupper, South Dakota Searchlight Bill Walsh picked up a ringing phone in Deadwood during the fall of 1983 and heard Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s voice. “Bill, I’m off the wagon,” Kennedy said, according to [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Two former Department of Corrections employees, three inmates and another person were indicted Tuesday for a series of incidents at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. DOC Secretary Kellie Wasko told lawmakers [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight More than 360 South Dakota agricultural producers are receiving a total of $53.4 million through the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. Eligible applicants allege they experienced [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The leader of the South Dakota Department of Corrections told lawmakers she doesn’t want to answer to the state’s Corrections Commission, a body that exists to provide oversight and guidance to [Read More…]

Seth Tupper, South Dakota Searchlight A new report on federally supported boarding schools for Native American children says at least 33 of the students who died while attending them — and likely more — were [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight A new analysis of the Nov. 5 ballot measure aiming to eliminate state sales taxes on groceries projects state revenue losses ranging from $134 million to $646 million annually. On Tuesday in Pierre, [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Lawmakers expressed frustration Tuesday in Pierre over the uncertain price tag for construction and operations of a proposed men’s prison in Lincoln County. Members of the Legislature’s Appropriations Committee also had [Read More…]