Articles by Travis Kriens

Jared Strong, Iowa Capital Dispatch More than 7 million gallons of manure have been improperly kept at a former southern Iowa hog confinement for nearly 10 years, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight A child care task force made up of 24 South Dakota lawmakers, business leaders, parents and early childhood professionals had its first meeting last month, and the group plans to [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota voters might decide in November if future primary elections should be open to all voters and whether recreational marijuana use should be legalized for adults. Backers of each [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight Tyler Broghammer leaves his office nearly every day armed with a small blue cooler. Inside is a weapon against South Dakota’s syphilis epidemic: syringes of penicillin. The sexually transmitted infection [Read More…]

Charles Mix County, S.D.- An 89-year-old woman has died as a result of injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash on the evening of Friday May 3, two miles east of Wagner, SD. Preliminary crash information indicates the driver of a 2012 [Read More…]

Seth Tupper and Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem was in political freefall Friday as embarrassing revelations continued to emerge from the scrutiny of advance copies of her memoir, which [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight A state board endorsed a rule change this week that would let Native American tribes access state housing infrastructure funding, but the change comes so late in the process that [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight State wildlife officials are not bringing back a popular method of estimating South Dakota’s pheasant population, despite requests from the public to do so. South Dakota is one of the [Read More…]

The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission is reviewing a petition from Mitchell resident Blake Roetman regarding the use of air guns for hunting predators and certain small game species. Roetman is proposing a [Read More…]