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Darrell Ehrlick, Daily Montanan A recent lawsuit filed in federal court says that a contracted food preparation company operating the meal service for the Cascade County Detention Center saw an inmate who experienced a nosebleed [Read More…]

Cami Koons, Iowa Capital Dispatch The Iowa Utilities Commission will have to decide whether Summit Carbon Solutions can change the ending destination for its carbon sequestration pipeline before a case against the company’s permit can [Read More…]

Molly Wetsch/South Dakota News Watch Five months after Operation: Prairie Thunder officially began, the South Dakota Highway Patrol’s collaborative anti-crime and immigration enforcement effort will continue into the new year, the governor’s office has confirmed. [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The owner of a South Dakota hotel who said Native Americans were banned from the establishment was found liable for discrimination against Native Americans on Friday. A federal jury decided [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight International students face plenty of questions amid federal immigration policy changes, said Beth Riley, director of South Dakota Mines’ Ivanhoe International Center. Should they risk going home to see family, or [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The November overdose death of a state prison inmate in Sioux Falls has drawn charges for a former Department of Corrections medical staffer and a man who’s already serving a 65-year [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight Steve Westra was South Dakota’s commissioner of economic development four years ago when the office first agreed to provide financial assistance for a CJ Schwan’s company project. After leaving state government, [Read More…]

Amy Dalrymple, Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday issued a long-awaited Dakota Access Pipeline environmental impact statement, recommending that the pipeline keep operating but with some new conditions for [Read More…]

Tim Henderson/Stateline September unemployment rates rose in 25 states and fell in 21 compared with last year, the government reported Dec. 11 in a shutdown-delayed analysis. The largest increase compared with September 2024 was in Oregon, where [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Department of Public Safety says a saturation patrol initiative has had a minimal impact on the Highway Patrol’s budget. Operation Prairie Thunder, announced in July by Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden, [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight SIOUX FALLS — South Dakota’s State Economist Derek Johnson told the state Banking Commission on Wednesday that a sluggish farm economy, driven by lower soybean, corn and wheat prices, has been [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Fights and serious injuries spiked higher in South Dakota’s state prisons last year than at any point since at least 2018, according to a report released Wednesday by the state Department [Read More…]

Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Department of Health is warning the public about a potential measles exposure at the Rapid City Regional Airport. The notification came as the agency’s website lists three new measles cases [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight For the fourth year in a row, Native American children made up more than 70% of children in the South Dakota foster care system at the end of the state’s fiscal [Read More…]