Articles by Travis Kriens

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight In response to hundreds of opposition comments, the Game, Fish and Parks Commission curtailed a proposal to expand waterfowl licenses for hunters from other states. “We’re not always going to rubber-stamp everything,” said [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight Bureau of Indian Affairs police recruits in South Dakota need a training facility closer to home, South Dakota’s junior senator told the Department of Interior this week. Sen. Mike Rounds [Read More…]

  Seth Tupper, South Dakota Searchlight Several years of tuition freezes have helped make South Dakota’s public universities the most affordable for undergraduates in the region, according to new data. “As a result of this [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The state Department of Corrections has decided to expand the number of allowable daily phone calls for inmates when tablet-based calling resumes on Friday after a pause that contributed to unrest [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS – United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a joint online sex crimes operation, which ran from March 7, 2024, through March 12, 2024, has concluded with the arrest of 11 individuals. [Read More…]

Amelia Schafer, Rapid City Journal and ICT Indigenous people account for roughly 60% of missing persons cases in South Dakota, which is still an undercount according to the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate’s [Read More…]

Stu Whitney, South Dakota News Watch The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing a case involving medication abortion that could change the way some South Dakota women access abortion services by crossing the border into neighboring [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight WAGNER — Yankton Sioux Tribe officials said Wednesday they know where the drugs on their tribal lands are coming from. “Not the cartels,” said Justin Song Hawk, a former tribal [Read More…]

The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Council voted unanimously this week to ban South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem from their reservation following her recent remarks. The decision came after Noem allegedly arrived uninvited to a meeting [Read More…]

A 2012 Freightliner Semi leaked 200 gallons of diesel fuel on Tuesday evening in Brookings County. The incident, which occurred near mile marker 133 on I-29 at 7:24 p.m., was caused by a detached driveshaft [Read More…]

Relations between South Dakota tribes and Republican Gov. Kristi Noem have long been strained, but they have become even more contentious recently as Noem has pointedly criticized tribal leaders, accusing some of profiting from drug [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight About 80% of the rivers, streams and lakes tested in South Dakota are too polluted for at least one of their intended uses. The state Department of Agriculture and Natural [Read More…]

Brad Johnson, South Dakota Searchlight WATERTOWN — About 1.8 million of the estimated 9 million encounters at the southern U.S. border in the past three years are “people they call got-aways,” U.S. Sen. John Thune, [Read More…]

Patrick Thomas Gross, 58, from Brandon, was arrested and charged with misdemeanors for tampering with a motor vehicle and trespassing with intent to eavesdrop after being caught placing a GPS tracker under a vehicle. The [Read More…]

A Minnehaha County grand jury has indicted 27-year-old Justin Preuschl, a former teacher at Whittier Middle School, for soliciting a 13-year-old to engage in a prohibited sexual act around January 1, 2024. Preuschl, who also [Read More…]

Kwik Star, a Wisconsin-based gas station and convenience store chain, is rapidly expanding in the Sioux Falls area, aiming to open a total of 10 locations by the end of the year. Six locations are [Read More…]

Family Dollar in Beresford, South Dakota, is set to close on April 20, along with the only other store slated for closure in the state, located in Reliance on April 13. These closures are part [Read More…]

The Chuck E. Cheese location in Sioux Falls, located at 2600 S. Louise Ave., has closed its doors for the last time this past weekend. The company confirmed the closure, stating that they are continually [Read More…]