Articles by Travis Kriens

Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch SISSETON, S.D. – All it took in spring 2024 was two small, unrelated medical service interruptions to put women’s health at risk and expose the fragility of the [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight Interpreter use in South Dakota courtrooms has more than doubled in the last decade, according to the Unified Judicial System. Requests for translation services, which cost the state more than $26,000 [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Democratic Party has nominated Forrest Wilson, of Lead, as its candidate for the Public Utilities Commission in the Nov. 5 general election. Wilson is the director at the Lead-Deadwood [Read More…]

Meade County, S.D.- An 83-year-old woman died Friday morning when a trailered boat came unhitched and collided with her vehicle head-on near Sturgis, SD. The names of the persons involved have not been released pending notification [Read More…]

Kevin Woster – Words matter. And for Gov. Kristi Noem and her relationship with Native American tribes, two words could matter most of all: “I’m sorry.” I’ve been thinking about the importance of apologies and [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The state’s police commission has ordered a Bennett County sheriff’s deputy to take part in remedial training because of his mishandling of domestic violence cases. The Law Enforcement Officers Standards and [Read More…]

Christopher Ingraham/Minnesota Reformer A report out this week finds that biofuel refineries, which are overwhelmingly concentrated in the Midwest’s corn-producing states, emit significant amounts of compounds that foul the air and threaten public health. The study was [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight Six thousand five hundred new housing units worth $1.4 billion were built in South Dakota last year, a state economic development official said Wednesday, helping alleviate rising home costs. “Our building [Read More…]

A 15-year-old girl has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 41-year-old Nichole Klich in Huron, South Dakota. This marks the second juvenile charged in the case; a 15-year-old boy was previously [Read More…]

Jennifer Shutt/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — When Lauren Miller flew from her home state of Texas to Colorado two years ago she felt a moment of relief when the plane took off — not because she [Read More…]

Watertown Police have arrested a juvenile in connection with a vandalism incident at the waterfront in City Park. According to a Facebook post by the police, the individual caused approximately $3,000 in damage by shaking [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight For months, Gov. Kristi Noem has stoked controversy by calling on tribal leaders to “banish the cartels.” But Noem has never mentioned 18-pound methamphetamine shipments from Arizona to Trent, population 218, by [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight A Native American man said Gov. Kristi Noem hindered his ability to receive a fair trial when she displayed a photo of him recently as alleged proof of cartel activity on [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight The state Department of Corrections will award over $800,000 in funds to 17 juvenile service programs across the state this year. The money will be used to support expanded diversion programs [Read More…]

MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — One of the several former players on an American Legion baseball team in South Dakota charged last year with rape has pleaded guilty to a lesser felony. Lincoln Bates, the 19-year-old [Read More…]