Articles by Travis Kriens

Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch MURDO, S.D. – When a group of two dozen economic development leaders gathered in this central South Dakota city in November, they were asked to list the top challenges [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Highway Patrol didn’t visit Brookings for a saturation patrol that had been announced in advance by the city’s leadership. The Department of Public Safety sent troopers to [Read More…]

Meghan O’Brien, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota’s Republican attorney general asked a judge Tuesday for a court order to stop an abortion-rights ad campaign. The request in Hughes County court comes after Attorney General Marty [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – The South Dakota Highway Patrol will hold sobriety checkpoints in 16 counties throughout the month of January. Checkpoints are planned for Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Clay, Davison, Day, Hamlin, Hanson, Hughes, Jones, Lawrence, Lincoln, [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight A South Dakota law that prevents drug companies from restricting federal drug discounts for hospitals and other providers will remain in effect for now, a judge has decided. Chicago-based AbbVie [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight A program that helps farmers pass their operations along to their children got a $200,000 boost from a South Dakota government fund under the exclusive control of the governor. Republican [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight Paul Cooper remembers when the crank radios showed up in Leavenworth. By then, he’d done time in South Dakota’s state prisons, where inmates used electrical outlets to light up and [Read More…]

Darrell Ehrlick, Daily Montanan A recent lawsuit filed in federal court says that a contracted food preparation company operating the meal service for the Cascade County Detention Center saw an inmate who experienced a nosebleed [Read More…]

Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch The Iowa Utilities Commission will have to decide whether Summit Carbon Solutions can change the ending destination for its carbon sequestration pipeline before a case against the company’s permit can [Read More…]

Molly Wetsch/South Dakota News Watch Five months after Operation: Prairie Thunder officially began, the South Dakota Highway Patrol’s collaborative anti-crime and immigration enforcement effort will continue into the new year, the governor’s office has confirmed. [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The owner of a South Dakota hotel who said Native Americans were banned from the establishment was found liable for discrimination against Native Americans on Friday. A federal jury decided [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight International students face plenty of questions amid federal immigration policy changes, said Beth Riley, director of South Dakota Mines’ Ivanhoe International Center. Should they risk going home to see family, or [Read More…]