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Clark Kauffman/Iowa Capital Dispatch The Iowa Utilities Board gave its approval Tuesday for the controversial Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline and for the company to use eminent domain to acquire landowners’ property. The company hopes to [Read More…]

Police responded to a robbery in southwest Sioux Falls on Saturday night. The incident occurred near 45th Street and Cathy Avenue, where a woman was threatened with a gun while she was in her car. [Read More…]

Greta Goede/South Dakota News Watch WAKONDA, S.D. – South Dakota recently became the No. 1 producer of hemp fibers in the nation after being the third-to-last state to make it legal just three years ago. [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight Homes were destroyed, roads were washed out, sinkholes opened up, a railroad bridge was swept away, and rescuers worked through Sunday night into Monday morning to save people from [Read More…]

Bail has been denied for Michael Flores, a 32-year-old Rapid City man charged with first-degree murder for killing a man near the Cornerstone Rescue Mission on Thursday morning. Flores made his initial court appearance Friday [Read More…]

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem stated on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that Donald Trump should choose a running mate who will aid in his victory, and she confirmed she has not been formally vetted for [Read More…]

Seht Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight Federal, state and local officials are focusing their efforts on a voluntary evacuation of Dakota Dunes and a levee construction project across Interstate 29 near McCook Lake as they continue responding [Read More…]

John Hult and Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight Officials from five of South Dakota’s nine Native American tribes said they will not attend Gov. Kristi Noem’s Tribal Public Safety Crisis Summit on Monday in Pierre, but [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch HURON, S.D. – The patchwork nature of the rural and reservation health care system in South Dakota sometimes requires compassion, innovation and a healthy dose of teamwork to [Read More…]

Seth Tupper, South Dakota Searchlight Sioux Falls is asking area residents to limit their contributions to the wastewater system, while state officials are warning of river crests that will arrive Monday and Tuesday as southeast [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight – The Department of Transportation issued a no-travel advisory this afternoon for all state highway sections in southeastern South Dakota experiencing flooding, including a blocked portion of Interstate 29. Some locations in [Read More…]

A 35-year-old man from Watertown, Jeffery McGuire, has been charged with multiple offenses following a confrontation in Pierre on Saturday night. The incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. near Missouri Avenue and Central Avenue. Officers responded [Read More…]

Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight A new court fight over South Dakota’s abortion-rights ballot measure could hinge on a complicated answer to a simple question: Does a set of six-year-old petition requirements still exist? The court [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Hundreds of bills about artificial intelligence and internet use by minors have been filed in statehouses in recent years. Even Heather Morton, who tracks state legislation as an analyst for the [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight The top election official in South Dakota’s most-populated county continued to cast doubt Tuesday on past election results reported by the county, while explaining plans to recount the results of two [Read More…]

Odarie Massiah, a 34-year-old man from Sioux Falls, has been convicted of Sex Trafficking of an Adult by Force and Coercion. On Monday, he was sentenced to 27 years and three months in federal prison, [Read More…]

Meade County, S.D.- A 47-year-old man died Monday afternoon in a single vehicle crash six miles northeast of Piedmont, SD. The names of the persons involved have not been released pending notification of family members. Preliminary [Read More…]

The capital murder trial of Joseph Hoek, accused of killing Moody County Deputy Sheriff Ken Prorok in a hit-and-run incident, is set to proceed in Moody County. The next hearing is scheduled for June 20 [Read More…]

Elaine S. Povich/Stateline SMITHFIELD, R.I. — Child care worker Marci Then, 32, looked over at two 4-year-olds in her care who were tussling over a toy plate in a model kitchen set. “Are we sharing?” [Read More…]