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Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight SIOUX FALLS — The South Dakota Board of Regents introduced proposed changes to the public university system’s housing and meal plan policy at its meeting Thursday, in response to failed legislation [Read More…]

Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight HURON — Farmers across the country may soon receive a share of a $12 billion farm aid package, as promised by Donald Trump earlier this week. Some South Dakota farmers say [Read More…]

Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight The U.S. Senate sent President Donald Trump a bill Thursday that would protect a portion of the Wounded Knee Massacre site on the Pine Ridge Reservation. U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South [Read More…]

Newly released court documents reveal graphic details in the Dec. 6 killing of 56-year-old Nichole Malfero in Howard. Deputies discovered Malfero inside a residence attached to the Willoughby Funeral Home with a severe head injury [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – Today, Governor Larry Rhoden and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) announced they secured over $72 million that will be awarded to subrecipients to expand high-speed internet access across the state. This [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight Gov. Larry Rhoden awarded $1 million Wednesday from a fund he controls to help pay for two business parks in the hometown of a political opponent. Rhoden announced the Future [Read More…]

Two men — one from Sioux Falls and one from Arizona — have been sentenced to long prison terms for trafficking tens of thousands of fentanyl pills into the Sioux Falls area and laundering the [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS – United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced today (Dec. 10) that U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann has sentenced an Aberdeen, South Dakota man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.  The [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley has been elected unanimously to serve as president-elect of the National Association of Attorneys General, although he’s hoping to be in the U.S. House before he [Read More…]

Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor Some North Dakota farmers are owed money after a large bankruptcy filing by a Nebraska-based grain dealer. The North Dakota Department of Agriculture says farmers in the state are owed more [Read More…]

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, KFF Health News The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care. But the government made minimal mention of Native [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight It’s becoming more common for South Dakotans to kill themselves with a gun, according to new data. The number of South Dakotans who took their own lives with a firearm rose [Read More…]