Latest News

Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch LAKE KAMPESKA, S.D. – As they sat in comfy lawn chairs and sipped cold sodas in a campsite along this lake’s shoreline, Cheryl and Mark Okeson didn’t look [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight SIOUX FALLS — A lawsuit against South Dakota’s abortion-rights ballot question won’t end before voting begins, according to rulings issued Tuesday. A Minnehaha County judge declined to dismiss the litigation, [Read More…]

Seth Tupper, South Dakota Searchlight RAPID CITY — Authorities are advising some residents on the western edge of Rapid City to be ready for a potential evacuation order as a wildfire burns nearby. A pre-evacuation [Read More…]

The Sioux Falls Police Department is actively investigating a series of shootings that took place from Labor Day weekend through Tuesday. West Tanager Place Mobile Home Shooting The first incident occurred early Saturday morning on [Read More…]

Rapid City Area Schools (RCAS) are addressing the issue of student lunch debt, thanks to a significant contribution from the Black Hills Area Community Foundation and a matching donation from the local city council. Earlier [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight A new National Park Service report shows six national park sites in South Dakota attracted a total of 4.6 million visits in 2023, resulting in $600 million of spending near those parks [Read More…]

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two foreign nationals, Thomasz Szabo of Romania and Nemanja Radovanovic of Serbia, with multiple counts of threats and false information regarding explosives, including a bomb threat at South [Read More…]

The South Dakota Transportation Commission has allocated over $1.8 million to 35 local bridge projects across the state through the Bridge Improvement Grants (BIG) program. Doug Kinniburgh, a Local Government Assistant for the South Dakota [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight Ages and Stages Daycare is the only child care center in Clear Lake, a town near Watertown with a population of 1,218. The owner planned to sell, and longtime employee Hailey [Read More…]

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…]