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John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — South Dakota will move to ban the purchase of sugary drinks with food assistance benefits after Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden signed a bill he’d opposed into law in the face [Read More…]

Mitchell, S.D. – The Mitchell City Council is set to meet Thursday, March 5, at 8 a.m. in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 612 N. Main Street. The agenda includes a reconsideration of [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Senate passed bills addressing abortion and required education in prenatal development for K-12 students on Tuesday. The bills will now head to the governor’s desk. House Bill 1257 would [Read More…]

Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — South Dakota families who qualify for reduced-price school meals could get those meals for free if the state Senate backs and Gov. Larry Rhoden signs a bill endorsed by [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber and John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — Two bills to regulate digital currency in South Dakota are on their way to Gov. Larry Rhoden’s desk after supportive votes in both chambers of the [Read More…]

David Lightman The national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline topped $3 Tuesday for the first time this year, and is expected to keep going up. The average price Tuesday was $3.11, up [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight A state Senate panel has declined to advance a bill that would have required mobile app stores operating in South Dakota to use age verification to restrict app downloads by minors. [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight A panel of South Dakota senators defeated a state lawmaker’s second attempt to require environmental impact studies for carbon dioxide pipelines. Sioux Falls Republican Rep. John Hughes’ first attempt last year failed in the House on [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota lawmakers have whittled down ideas of how to use at least $31 million in one-time state funding from nearly 30 to under a dozen. Gov. Larry Rhoden told lawmakers in [Read More…]

Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor A North Dakota judge officially ordered Greenpeace to pay $345 million to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline following a nearly yearlong tug-of-war over a Morton County jury’s verdict. The [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight When South Dakota’s governor makes a board or commission appointment that requires state Senate approval, the appointee is legally obligated to file a financial disclosure document that can be scrutinized for [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch/South Dakota News Watch RAPID VALLEY, S.D. – Bridget Williams gathered a group of children together in her barn to show them how to safely give a horse a treat. Williams told them not [Read More…]