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John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight One week after inking a second commutation in as many months for a person convicted of murder, Gov. Kristi Noem denied sentence reduction requests for two men serving time on theft charges. Noem [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson is taking criticism from his opponent for celebrating a water system’s progress this month, after he voted against a bill three years ago that provided some of [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Personal incomes have outpaced rising prices in recent years despite widespread concerns about inflation, according to data shared Thursday during a Zoom meeting of the South Dakota Governor’s Council of Economic [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota has received over $18 million in national opioid settlement funds since 2022, spending $3 million so far on efforts to track, treat and prevent opioid abuse in the [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota 911 Coordination Board commissioned a study Monday into the feasibility of consolidation among the 32 separately managed dispatch centers in the state. Some state senators pressed the issue of [Read More…]

On Sunday, August 25, a shooting at Dunham Park in Sioux Falls resulted in the death of 29-year-old Joshau Antrell Allen Jr. and left three others injured. The incident occurred around 4:21 p.m. during a [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight Scientists at a deep underground lab in South Dakota say they’ve made an advancement in their quest to understand dark matter. The invisible substance is estimated to make up 85% of the [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Governor Kristi Noem’s administration recently turned down more than $70 million of federal funds from energy efficiency and environmental programs, according to her top budget official. The Home Energy Rebates program would [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight The voters of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe elected their first female president on Thursday. According to unofficial results posted late Thursday night, tribal council member Kathleen Wooden Knife prevailed by [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota landowners enrolled almost 159,000 acres this year — nearly 250 square miles — into a federal conservation program that pays them to use management practices promoting healthy grasslands. [Read More…]