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Kevin Killough, South Dakota News Watch PIERRE, S.D. – A new scientific poll co-sponsored by South Dakota News Watch finds that a majority of registered voters approve of a men’s prison project. Through the years-long [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight Delayed food assistance benefits will be loaded onto payment cards overnight, South Dakota officials said Tuesday, but recipients will receive only a portion of their usual benefits. The state Department of Social [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, said a stopgap spending bill to reopen the federal government includes $21.9 million worth of funding he requested for projects in South Dakota. The spending bill [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Greg Learing appreciates that when drivers cross a bridge near Parker, they might think of his uncle, Army Pvt. Marvin Gunderson, who was killed in action 80 [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch SALEM, S.D. – In an effort to build new housing that will help this small eastern South Dakota city recover from two weather disasters in the same year, community [Read More…]

John Hult and Seth Tupper, South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Department of Social Services says it began preparations over the weekend to issue partial food assistance benefits for this month, but the department is [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Winter made its first official appearance over the weekend as a widespread snow system blanketed much of the Tri-State area with the season’s first measurable accumulation. The storm, which developed after [Read More…]

Three proposed constitutional amendments have been approved for circulation in South Dakota, clearing the way for supporters to begin gathering signatures. Secretary of State Monae Johnson said the petitions were submitted ahead of the Nov. [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden has appointed Seventh Circuit Presiding Judge Robert Gusinsky to serve as a supreme court justice for the First Supreme District, the governor’s office announced Tuesday. The vacancy [Read More…]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — One person was killed and another injured in a shooting early Tuesday morning at an apartment complex near 43rd Street and Larch Avenue in western Sioux Falls. Police responded to reports [Read More…]

LARCHWOOD, Iowa — Four people were taken to Sioux Falls hospitals following a two-vehicle crash near the Grand Falls Casino on Friday night, Oct. 31. According to the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, 36-year-old Kristina Espinoza [Read More…]