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John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Police in South Dakota logged fewer theft reports in 2025 than the previous year, but made more arrests for theft. The figures suggest surveillance technology first adopted in Madison and expanded [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — South Dakota will move to ban the purchase of sugary drinks with food assistance benefits after Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden signed a bill he’d opposed into law in the face [Read More…]

Mitchell, S.D. – The Mitchell City Council is set to meet Thursday, March 5, at 8 a.m. in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 612 N. Main Street. The agenda includes a reconsideration of [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Senate passed bills addressing abortion and required education in prenatal development for K-12 students on Tuesday. The bills will now head to the governor’s desk. House Bill 1257 would [Read More…]

Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — South Dakota families who qualify for reduced-price school meals could get those meals for free if the state Senate backs and Gov. Larry Rhoden signs a bill endorsed by [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber and John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight PIERRE — Two bills to regulate digital currency in South Dakota are on their way to Gov. Larry Rhoden’s desk after supportive votes in both chambers of the [Read More…]

David Lightman The national average price of a gallon of regular gasoline topped $3 Tuesday for the first time this year, and is expected to keep going up. The average price Tuesday was $3.11, up [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight A state Senate panel has declined to advance a bill that would have required mobile app stores operating in South Dakota to use age verification to restrict app downloads by minors. [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight A panel of South Dakota senators defeated a state lawmaker’s second attempt to require environmental impact studies for carbon dioxide pipelines. Sioux Falls Republican Rep. John Hughes’ first attempt last year failed in the House on [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota lawmakers have whittled down ideas of how to use at least $31 million in one-time state funding from nearly 30 to under a dozen. Gov. Larry Rhoden told lawmakers in [Read More…]

Mary Steurer/North Dakota Monitor A North Dakota judge officially ordered Greenpeace to pay $345 million to the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline following a nearly yearlong tug-of-war over a Morton County jury’s verdict. The [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight When South Dakota’s governor makes a board or commission appointment that requires state Senate approval, the appointee is legally obligated to file a financial disclosure document that can be scrutinized for [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch/South Dakota News Watch RAPID VALLEY, S.D. – Bridget Williams gathered a group of children together in her barn to show them how to safely give a horse a treat. Williams told them not [Read More…]