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Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch MITCHELL, S.D. – Several cranes tower above a busy construction site along state Highway 37 south of Mitchell where work is rapidly progressing on a $500 million grain [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight A $3 million state effort to help landowners keep their agricultural runoff out of the Big Sioux River has experienced a spike in enrollments since the program began offering higher [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight The average South Dakota teacher salary increased by $3,125 between 2023 and 2024, or 5.87%, according to a recent state Department of Education report. Average teacher compensation, which includes salary [Read More…]

Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s rise to secretary of the Department of Homeland Security would put her in charge of a sprawling federal network of 22 agencies and [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – Fodor’s Travel has named Badlands National Park as the #1 destination to visit in the United States on their coveted “Go List.” The annual editorial list recommends the top 25 locations worldwide to visit in [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, is confident that bipartisan legislation to help low-income Native Americans obtain home mortgages on tribal land will win approval from Congress. The U.S. Department of [Read More…]

Nada Hassanein, Stateline Houston OB-GYN Dr. Hillary Boswell says she has seen how abortion bans affect teenage girls: More of them are carrying their pregnancies to term. “These are vulnerable girls, and it’s just heartbreaking [Read More…]

Xcel Energy has received approval from the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to continue charging customers a special fee through 2025 to promote energy efficiency. The decision allows the company to maintain its incentives [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight An Iowa company proposing a carbon dioxide pipeline said it resubmitted its permit application to South Dakota regulators Tuesday with what the company described as “major reroutes.” The move comes [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko told the South Dakota Corrections Commission that prison staff found contraband in sweat lodges disassembled during a weekslong prison lockdown earlier this fall in Sioux Falls. She also [Read More…]

Jackie Hendry, South Dakota News Watch AGENCY VILLAGE, S.D. – The South Dakota Native Tourism Alliance became a nonprofit this year and is entering the next phase of its work, five years after it was started by [Read More…]

Dakota Wesleyan University, in collaboration with Monument Health, has unveiled a new nursing facility in Rapid City to help combat South Dakota’s nursing shortage. The facility will offer in-person classes for nursing students, with general [Read More…]