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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A bill to bar the sale of sweetened medical marijuana products and gummies failed to pass the South Dakota House on Thursday. The bill would have banned the sale of cannabis [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota lawmakers weighing impeachment charges against the state’s attorney general said Thursday that they have been pressured by a telemarketing campaign to impeach him. House Speaker Spencer Gosch, a Republican [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Supreme Court has ruled a Yankton trailer court owner isn’t liable for injuries to a child who was attacked by a tenant’s dog. Teresa Burgi appealed a case [Read More…]

BOX ELDER, S.D. (AP) — Authorities in southwestern South Dakota say a 19 year old was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly brought a loaded weapon to a high school basketball game. Box Elder police said [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Dakota State University on Wednesday announced plans for a $90 million expansion of its cybersecurity program, including the construction of a lab in Sioux Falls. At an event to announce [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Sioux Falls man accused in a 2020 shooting death has taken a plea deal in the case instead of going to trial. Rashaun Guest, 25, has pleaded guilty to [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s Senate on Tuesday passed a spate of bills to put lawmakers’ mark on the state’s new voter-passed medical marijuana law. Several of the bills approved by the Senate would [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday pressured House lawmakers weighing impeachment charges against the state attorney general to release investigative files on his 2020 fatal car crash. The Republican governor [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota’s Republican-controlled House on Monday signaled its lawmakers want more power to look into settlement agreements after parts of a legislative probe last year were hampered as it examined Gov. [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota House committee on Monday approved a proposal to prod school districts to use most of their boost in state funding for teachers’ salaries. The Republican-dominated committee approved the [Read More…]

SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) — A Spearfish man is accused in the shooting death of his wife early Saturday morning, authorities said. Dreau Rogers, 33, has been arrested and charged with first degree murder in the [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A man was arrested for DUI after his vehicle struck a Sioux Falls Police car. The Argus Leader reports it happened about 1:20 a.m. Friday. Police say an officer saw a vehicle [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota had a record number of visitors in 2021, making it the first state to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels, according the tourism officials. The state Department of Tourism says [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Senate on Thursday passed a $1.5 million funding boost for a private school scholarship program that is funded through tax credits. The bill’s proponents argued the program allows [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The South Dakota Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a proposal to make it a felony for anyone who brokers a grain purchase with an unlicensed buyer. The state requires grain buyers [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Criminal investigators on Wednesday told South Dakota lawmakers that they didn’t believe the state’s attorney general when he told them he never saw the body of the man he fatally struck [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A significant increase in the number of tourists in the Black Hills since the start of the coronavirus pandemic prompted Gov. Kristi Noem to push for spending nearly $10 million to [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A Sioux Falls woman accused of faking her own kidnapping from a local pizza restaurant told detectives she wanted a break from her husband, according to court documents. The woman [Read More…]