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John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Three spending bills passed this week through the U.S. Senate that include millions of dollars earmarked for South Dakota projects, according to U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota. Congress is working [Read More…]

Clay County, S.D.- One person died Friday morning in a two-vehicle crash two miles south of Centerville, SD. The names of the persons involved have not been released pending notification of family members. Preliminary crash information [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – In South Dakota, this winter it’s not Glen Campbell’s Rhinestone Cowboy, riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo, but rather Rhinestone Plowboy, riding out in a plow on a snow-filled “roadeo”. The South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) is [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota lawmakers on the the House Education Committee on Friday unanimously deferred action on a bill to more effectively remove violent children from public school classrooms on a temporary basis. [Read More…]

Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight Don Barnett, who died Monday at age 83, was the 29-year-old mayor of Rapid City when it was struck by a flood that killed 238 people on June 9, 1972. He received widespread [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight A committee of South Dakota lawmakers deadlocked on Friday in Pierre on a bill that would remove an economic development fund from the governor’s exclusive control. A motion to approve the measure tied [Read More…]

Carson Walker/South Dakota Searchlight Elementary and middle school students from around South Dakota will compete Saturday, Feb. 7, in the state spelling bee at Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell. For the second year, DWU and [Read More…]

John Hult and Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — South Dakota lawmakers voted to recognize the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, but not before adjusting language on Indigenous people and civil rights [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — A day before lawmakers were set to debate a bill that would dash his exclusive authority to dole out awards from an employer-funded pool of economic development dollars, Gov. [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight Some state employees who want to go to work for companies doing business with the state will have to wait longer if a new bill becomes law. Republican Sen. Tim Reed, [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight Half a dozen entities comb through South Dakota’s financial records each year to ensure a balanced budget or that details are accurately recorded. South Dakota Compliance Auditor Missy Lock, who was [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — South Dakota and the tribal nations in the state can make improvements for health care and public safety during the 2026 legislative session, Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Kathleen Wooden [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota’s attorney general issued an opinion Tuesday saying that candidates for office and elected officials can use campaign funds to pay child care and security costs under some circumstances. Marty [Read More…]

Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom WASHINGTON — U.S. House Democrats Wednesday introduced three articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, after a deadly shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by a federal immigration officer. The [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — South Dakota will expand a specialty program for people facing drug charges, a move spurred by a decision last year to lessen the penalties for drug use. The state [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight A former equestrian coach at South Dakota State University in Brookings has been indicted for allegedly using state resources to pay for her personal horses’ veterinarian bills and to board them for about a [Read More…]