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Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight Nine Native American tribes have filed a lawsuit against the US Forest Service over its approval of a graphite drilling project near Pe’ Sla, a site in the Black Hills that [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota will hire more parole officers, expand monitoring to nights and weekends, and make it easier to send people on parole back to prison, Gov. Larry Rhoden announced this week. [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar and Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight In South Dakota’s race for governor, a state law limiting individual campaign contributions is proving to be more of a suggestion than a requirement. The law caps individual contributions to [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota is on track to meet or exceed its revenue estimates by the end of the fiscal year, the Legislature’s lead budget expert said Thursday. The state is about $10 [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight A campaign committee has launched a referendum effort to repeal a new law that would use money from a scheduled statewide sales tax increase to lower property taxes for homeowners. Lawmakers reduced the [Read More…]

Alexander Rifaat/South Dakota News Watch PIERRE, S.D. – County auditors in South Dakota are, in certain cases, deciding how to implement new voter ID rules on their own due to uncertainty over guidelines issued by [Read More…]

Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota’s contract for a July 3 fireworks show at Mount Rushmore is worth twice as much as the last show six years ago. The state Department of Tourism entered into [Read More…]

Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota’s new five-year ban on cell-cultured protein targets a product whose path to mass market availability is operating on “generational-level timescales,” according to a scientist dedicated to the topic. Elliot [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota homeowners will see the effects of two new property tax reduction laws as early as next year — automatically and without any formal notice in one case, and with [Read More…]

Molly Wetsch/South Dakota News Watch WATERTOWN, S.D. – South Dakota counties and cities that received the first $9.6 million of national opioid settlement money have spent less than half of it, according to Department of [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Department of Social Services estimates 1,213 people on expanded Medicaid, about 4% of the group, could be disenrolled after federal work requirements are implemented in 2027. Medicaid is [Read More…]