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The Build Dakota Scholarship has introduced a new opportunity for students pursuing careers in early childhood education. This initiative provides full financial support to both traditional and nontraditional students, covering tuition, textbooks, and technology costs. [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Three days after the U.S. Department of Justice announced a plan to help a Native American tribe in South Dakota reduce domestic violence, Republican Governor Kristi Noem called on the [Read More…]

Authorities in South Dakota are investigating how a semi-truck and trailer loaded with Amazon packages, valued at $220,000, ended up near Sioux Falls instead of its intended route from Las Vegas to Waco, Texas. The [Read More…]

Stu Whitney, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota Republican Sen. John Thune has the largest political war chest of any U.S. senator, topping the $20 million mark even though he’s not up for re-election until 2028. [Read More…]

South Dakota’s absentee voting for the November 5 General Election starts on Friday, September 20. Voters can request absentee ballots by submitting an application to their county auditor, either in person or by downloading the [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota’s three members of Congress scored poorly on a watchdog group’s new Democracy Scorecard, which evaluates congressional positions on democracy-related bills and resolutions. Common Cause is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. It [Read More…]

Stu Whitney, South Dakota News Watch Trina Lapp, an 18-year-old Milbank native who attends Dakota Wesleyan University, doesn’t view politics or the upcoming election as an afterthought. She’s digging in. “I think it’s important for [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight Cancer took so much from Doris Cardwell. She and her family were uprooted from rural South Dakota in 2007 to treat her aggressive breast cancer diagnosis. She spent over a [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight – A farmer- and rancher-led organization committed to promoting soil health recently launched a new online platform to help local food producers and consumers connect. The South Dakota Soil Health Coalition’s Fresh Connect website provides an [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight While legislators were passing a law in March requiring more information from Republican Gov. Kristi Noem about a fund she controls, Noem was awarding $13.5 million from the fund to a project [Read More…]

In a Davison County courtroom on Wednesday, September 11, 35-year-old Shawn Delancey of Mt. Vernon pleaded guilty to 2nd-degree manslaughter and child abuse following the death of 3-year-old Mahlon Pollard in March 2023. Originally charged [Read More…]