Articles by Travis Kriens

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — T. Denny Sanford, the billionaire businessman whose philanthropy reshaped health care in South Dakota and beyond, died Saturday at the age of 90. Sanford Health CEO Bill Gassen announced Sanford’s death [Read More…]

Charles Mix County, S.D.- A Kennebec, South Dakota man died Friday in a single-vehicle crash near Lake Andes, South Dakota. Names of the those involved have not been released pending notification of family members. Preliminary crash [Read More…]

Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — While tour groups, state employees and lawmakers make their way around scaffolding on the second floor of the South Dakota Capitol building, artists including Philip Atilano climb around at [Read More…]

Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight A new South Dakota law that criminalizes the advertising of abortion pills cannot be enforced while a lawsuit against it continues, a federal judge ruled Friday. Nancy Turbak Berry, who formerly served as [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota governor candidate Toby Doeden has repeatedly pledged to eliminate or phase out property taxes, often without limiting his language to any specific type of property. This week, amid criticism [Read More…]

GREGORY, S.D. — Elmer Karl, the founder and longtime president of Karl’s TV & Appliance, has died at the age of 94. Karl died Wednesday evening, July 15, in his hometown of Gregory, surrounded by [Read More…]

SPRINGFIELD, S.D. — The Bon Homme County Sheriff’s Office says a missing juvenile from Springfield has been recovered from the Missouri River. Authorities received a report of a missing juvenile on the evening of July [Read More…]

MITCHELL, S.D. — Mitchell Mayor Jordan Hanson is addressing concerns over letters sent to some residents regarding a proposed alley improvement assessment program. Hanson said he takes responsibility for the letters and acknowledged that a [Read More…]

Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight Republican South Dakota governor candidate Toby Doeden touted a poll in May that correctly predicted him finishing first in the June 2 primary, but he called results from the same firm [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight Advance voting in the runoff for the South Dakota Republican nomination for governor is ahead of the pace it was on for the primary election, and some county election officials are [Read More…]

Kevin Hardy/Stateline Consumers are unlikely to see any relief in gas and electric bills as utilities proposed more than $18 billion in rate hikes across the country over the first half of the year. The [Read More…]