Articles by Travis Kriens

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…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Two years after approving a tough-on-crime sentencing law, South Dakota is scrambling to deal with the price tag for that legislation: Housing thousands of additional inmates could require up to [Read More…]

MITCHELL, S.D. – On Monday, June 9, 2025, two separate crews will begin simultaneous work on chip seal and fog seal projects on various highways in the Mitchell area. The contractor’s crews will move from [Read More…]

PIERRE, SD – The South Dakota Department of Health is notifying the public of potential measles exposure at two locations in Pennington County. The individual, who is South Dakota’s second confirmed measles case, visited public [Read More…]

Sully County, S.D.- A Pierre, SD teen died Wednesday morning in a three-vehicle crash on US Highway 83, one mile south of Agar, SD. Preliminary crash information indicates the driver of a 2017 Dodge Ram 1500 was traveling northbound [Read More…]

Pierre, SD – Twelve South Dakota Highway Patrol Troopers officially graduated this morning during a ceremony in the Capitol Rotunda. Opening remarks were presented by Col. Casey Collins, SDHP Superintendent. “Today is a day to celebrate [Read More…]

Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch  A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld lower court decisions barring counties from imposing safety standards on a pipeline subject to federal safety standards. The cases involved Summit Carbon Solutions, the [Read More…]