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Brown County, S.D.- An Aberdeen man died in a single vehicle tractor crash Thursday afternoon six miles southeast of Aberdeen, SD. Preliminary crash information indicates Ronald Allen Glugla, the driver of a Farmall Tractor with a belly mower, was [Read More…]

Todd Epp, Northern Plains News LLC South Dakota Public Broadcasting faces a new funding threat after President Donald Trump signed an executive order recently ending federal support for NPR, PBS and their affiliate stations, including [Read More…]

Todd Epp, Northern Plains News LLC In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, new tariffs have caused South Dakota families to pay more for food, farm inputs, and consumer goods. Federal [Read More…]

MADISON, S.D. (AP) — Dakota State University hasn’t experienced the student protests taking place at other U.S. colleges. Nestled in rural South Dakota, most of the nearly 4,000 students have been focused on their studies [Read More…]

Stu Whitney, South Dakota News Watch More than half of South Dakotans oppose building a new men’s state prison in rural Lincoln County, according to a poll co-sponsored by South Dakota News Watch, another blow [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight When the South Dakota Department of Corrections announced the site where it hoped to build a 1,500-bed men’s prison in 2023, it told the public it was the only usable site available. [Read More…]

Pe’ Sla, or Reynolds Prairie, is a high-elevation Black Hills meadow of sacred importance to Lakota people. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight An environmental organization and a Native American advocacy group [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota ranks 46th in the nation for average teacher salaries — its highest standing since the National Education Association started ranking states in 1943, according to the South Dakota Education Association. The [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who was the Democratic Party’s nominee for vice president last year, will be the keynote speaker for the South Dakota Democratic Party’s annual McGovern Day Dinner on July [Read More…]

A mixed-use residential and commercial building under construction on June 13, 2023, in downtown Rapid City. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) Tim Henderson/Stateline More new apartments were built in 2024 than in any other year since [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The state of South Dakota will spend up to $250,000 to clear PFAS chemicals from local areas in the coming year. Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known as PFAS or “forever chemicals,” [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight State employees in South Dakota will soon have a secure web portal to submit allegations of misbehavior by their coworkers. Gov. Larry Rhoden signed an executive order telling the state Bureau of Human [Read More…]