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The number of reported measles cases has grown to four in South Dakota, according to a Wednesday news release from the state Department of Health. In response, the department will hold vaccination clinics across the [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Excluding the money he loaned himself, Reid Rasner raised less than $35,000 for his failed attempt to unseat a U.S. senator last year. This year, the 41-year-old Wyoming Republican says he’s [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that South Dakota is expected to receive an estimated $10.1 million as its share of a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, [Read More…]

Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor North Dakota legislative support staff on Saturday wiped legislators’ home addresses from the Legislature’s website in response to the shootings of two lawmakers in Minnesota. John Bjornson, director of Legislative Council, [Read More…]

Zach Wendling/Nebraska Examiner LINCOLN — Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen has endorsed which way the state should lock the clocks, putting his weight behind ending twice-a-year clock changes by using permanent standard time. In his monthly radio [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch The South Dakota Supreme Court will decide the legality of a disputed lease signed by dozens of people who live in former military munitions bunkers located near Edgemont [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight SIOUX FALLS — A member of the artificial intelligence data center industry said Monday that South Dakota’s lack of incentives makes the state less competitive for development. Data centers house powerful [Read More…]

The abortion funding system across the U.S. is battered three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and allowed states to enforce bans. An initial surge of donations has subsided, scores of clinics have closed and advocates [Read More…]

Anna Claire Vollers/Stateline Nine months after Monroe County Hospital in rural South Alabama closed its labor and delivery department in October 2023, Grove Hill Memorial Hospital in neighboring Clarke County also stopped delivering babies. Both [Read More…]

A state prison offender, Dennis Lufkins, age 76, has died while in custody. Lufkins passed away on June 15, 2025, at the Jameson Annex medical unit, where he was receiving care. At the time of [Read More…]

States Newsroom With the nation’s capital hosting multimillion-dollar celebrations and a parade marking the U.S. Army’s 250th anniversary and President Donald Trump’s birthday Saturday, huge No Kings demonstrations blanketed the country from coast to coast [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight The Trump administration recently terminated more than $5 million promised to South Dakota for expanded access to digital technology. That increases the administration’s total federal funding cuts impacting South Dakota state [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight Nationwide protests against the Trump administration are planned this Saturday, including in South Dakota cities. “No Kings” is the theme of the protests, which will coincide with President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday, [Read More…]