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Each year Mitchell High School’s graduating seniors selected two commencement speakers. And 2026 was no exception. Katie Hohn encouraged her classmates to move forward using life lessons learned from the Disney Pixar movie “A Bug’s [Read More…]

The 196 strong Mitchell High School Class of 2026 gathered for a final time Sunday to celebrate the completion of their high school education. Mitchell High School Principal Justin Siemsen says this is the first [Read More…]

SD Searchlight-Josh Haiar A 70-year-old woman from Canada died after being struck by a bison Monday while hiking with her husband in South Dakota’s Custer State Park, after another park visitor was injured by a [Read More…]

Should he be elected governor, Dusty Johnson is promising to bring a long-standing tradition back to Pierre and Fort Pierre. In 2019, former Governor Kristi Noem announced she’d be moving the Governor’s Hunt from Pierre [Read More…]

A federal lawsuit filed against the South Dakota Board of Minerals and Environment has delayed upcoming hearings and temporarily paused Project Chord, a proposal by Canadian mining company Clean Nuclear Energy Corp. to drill 38 [Read More…]

It’s the end of the 2025-2026 school year in Mitchell. And Superintendent Joe Childs says it’s been memorable. “The day before school began with the announcement of our endowment gift in partnership with Dakota Wesleyan, [Read More…]

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing a rule change that could speed up data center builds in South Dakota and across the country. The move would eliminate the need for a Clean Air Act permit [Read More…]

Attorney General Marty Jackley commends the South Dakota Supreme Court for upholding the conviction and life sentence of David J. Shangreaux, Jr., a Pierre man found guilty by a Hughes County jury of second-degree murder [Read More…]

A 50 year old man from Crooks is sitting in a federal prison following his conviction of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.  The sentencing took place on Monday. Cary Ludens was sentenced to 13 [Read More…]

During a ceremony held recently at the Big Sioux Composite Squadron meeting, Cadet Tysen King of Volga was presented with the Brigadier General Billy Mitchell Award by Maj Tyler Gross, the South Dakota Deputy Wing [Read More…]

James Valley Drug & DUI Court will hold a graduation ceremony on Thursday, May 28, 2026, at 2:30 p.m. CDT in the second-floor courtroom of the Davison County Public Safety Building, 1015 S. Miller Ave., [Read More…]

The months-long debate over funding the Department of Homeland Security rages on in Washington…but still no action. Senate Majority Leader John Thune says politics got in the way with Democrats refusing to negotiate. Thune says [Read More…]

The South Dakota Trail of Governors Foundation Board has delayed the unveiling of former Governor Kristi Noem’s bronze statue until August, but the annual Run with the Govs event will take place in June, as [Read More…]