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Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight A child care task force made up of 24 South Dakota lawmakers, business leaders, parents and early childhood professionals had its first meeting last month, and the group plans to [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota voters might decide in November if future primary elections should be open to all voters and whether recreational marijuana use should be legalized for adults. Backers of each [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight Tyler Broghammer leaves his office nearly every day armed with a small blue cooler. Inside is a weapon against South Dakota’s syphilis epidemic: syringes of penicillin. The sexually transmitted infection [Read More…]

Charles Mix County, S.D.- An 89-year-old woman has died as a result of injuries sustained in a two-vehicle crash on the evening of Friday May 3, two miles east of Wagner, SD. Preliminary crash information indicates the driver of a 2012 [Read More…]

Seth Tupper and Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem was in political freefall Friday as embarrassing revelations continued to emerge from the scrutiny of advance copies of her memoir, which [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight A state board endorsed a rule change this week that would let Native American tribes access state housing infrastructure funding, but the change comes so late in the process that [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight State wildlife officials are not bringing back a popular method of estimating South Dakota’s pheasant population, despite requests from the public to do so. South Dakota is one of the [Read More…]

The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission is reviewing a petition from Mitchell resident Blake Roetman regarding the use of air guns for hunting predators and certain small game species. Roetman is proposing a [Read More…]

Governor Kristi Noem’s upcoming book, “No Going Back,” will be revised after it falsely claimed she had met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The book also erroneously recounted a meeting with French President [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight Non-English speaking South Dakotans in five counties are now able to talk with an interpreter over a video conferencing software when they’re seeking guidance and help from clerks at the courthouse. [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight The company that aims to place a massive jet fuel plant in Lake Preston told investors Thursday that updated guidance from the federal government on biofuel carbon credits could be [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Levitt at the Falls is pleased to announce the full calendar of 50 free concerts for the 2024 season, presented by MarketBeat. Concerts will start on Friday, May 31 and run [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a South Dakota Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) review indicates that Sioux Falls Police Officers were justified in shooting a man who was armed [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota Housing will launch its Grants for Grads program Friday, aiming to help college and technical-college graduates purchase their first home in South Dakota. The program is available “for a limited [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch, SD News Watch RAPID CITY, S.D. – After two years with the lowest possible health and safety rating from the federal government, Monument Health’s score will rise from a 1-star to a 3-star [Read More…]

Stu Whitney / South Dakota News Watch SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – The U.S. Postal Service has finalized its plan to downgrade the downtown Sioux Falls post office to a local processing center, shifting non-local mail [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. – The Department of Labor and Regulation Mitchell Job Service in coordination with the Mitchell Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a virtual hiring event on Wednesday, May 15, from 11 a.m. to 1 [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight SIOUX FALLS — The group leading the effort to put abortion rights on South Dakota’s November ballot said Wednesday it was turning in far more petition signatures than required, while [Read More…]

Seth Tupper, South Dakota Searchlight Who’s to blame for the outrage about South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s fatal shootings of a dog and goat? “Fake news,” according to her. Noem, a Republican, appeared Wednesday night on [Read More…]

Tristan Baurick, Verite News LOUISIANA — It wasn’t the wail of a siren or the buzz of an emergency phone alert that warned Tanya Richard a pipeline near her home was spewing poison gas. The first hint [Read More…]