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Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight The board overseeing South Dakota’s public university system increased in-person tuition by 2.4% systemwide at its Wednesday meeting in Custer, while approving a higher increase of 5% for South Dakota Mines. [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight Advance voting for the June 2 primary election is outpacing or on track to match the 2024 primary election in South Dakota, several county auditors say, despite a weeklong delay at [Read More…]

Kadin Luhmann/Iowa Capital Dispatch Iowa property owners asked the Iowa Utilities Commission Wednesday to deny Summit Carbon Solution’s recent filing seeking to modify its pipeline project, while ag group members and some others called for approval of [Read More…]

Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight The status of a hearing on an exploratory uranium drilling permit was left uncertain Wednesday after a state board adjourned until further notice, following a private session to discuss legal matters. The permit [Read More…]

Molly Wetsch/South Dakota News Watch A new South Dakota law about municipal election dates is adding to an already-heavy ballot for many voters this June. Hotly contested primaries for governor and other statehouse and federal [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch/South Dakota News Watch BIG STONE CITY, S.D. – This small city in rural northeastern South Dakota has established itself as an energy hub for the entire Great Plains region, and that reputation has [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight The candidates themselves are not the only ones raising and spending money in South Dakota’s race for governor. Political action committees not officially associated with the candidates have spent over $1.3 [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Since last year, South Dakota’s National Guard has helped U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deport 664 people, the Department of Corrections has handed 24 inmates over to that agency, and state [Read More…]

Robbie Sequeira/Stateline Conversations with survivors of sexual abuse left Missouri state Sen. Tracy McCreery wondering what could have prevented the harm, leading her to sponsor a bill that would require clergy and religious workers to [Read More…]

Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight HOT SPRINGS, S.D. — Persistent, drizzling rain didn’t keep dozens of people from rallying against a proposed uranium drilling project in the southern Black Hills on the first day of a [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch/South Dakota News Watch BLACK HAWK, S.D. – Six years ago, a huge sinkhole opened in a residential neighborhood in this unincorporated town that serves largely as a bedroom community for Rapid City. After [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight Former President Joe Biden will be the keynote speaker June 5 at the South Dakota Democratic Party’s McGovern Day Dinner, the party announced Saturday. “It is an honor to welcome President Biden [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota’s environmental regulatory department has changed how it publicly presents its report on the quality of the state’s rivers, lakes and streams, leading to praise for the simplified presentation but [Read More…]