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Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Lawmakers will study topics ranging from property taxes to the regulation of minors’ access to inappropriate web content this summer. The legislature’s Executive Board defined the summer studies state lawmakers [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight SIOUX FALLS – South Dakota’s largest county by population will spend another $640,000 to address housing challenges for people who’ve spent time behind bars. The Minnehaha County Commission cast a unanimous [Read More…]

Sioux Falls police responded to an aggravated assault incident tied to a burglary on Monday morning. The incident began when a victim was driving and noticed a car driving at high speed behind him. The [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Lawmakers will study topics ranging from property taxes to the regulation of minors’ access to inappropriate web content this summer. The legislature’s Executive Board defined the summer studies state lawmakers [Read More…]

The South Dakota Education Equity Coalition (SDEEC) strongly opposes Kristi Noem’s recent comments about Native education, calling them disparaging and misrepresentative. Noem’s statement that “their kids don’t have any hope. They don’t have parents who [Read More…]

South Dakotans for Better Marijuana Laws have announced that they have surpassed the halfway mark in collecting signatures to place a marijuana legalization initiative on the state’s November ballot. With a deadline of May 7, [Read More…]

Richard Schmitz, 55, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for the 2013 manslaughter of his girlfriend, Meshell Will, 38. Schmitz took a plea deal in January, one day before he was due to [Read More…]

One suspect in a convenience store robbery in Sioux Falls has been identified as 38-year-old Marita White. White, along with a male accomplice, robbed the store at gunpoint early Tuesday morning in the 1000 block [Read More…]

Authorities in Sturgis rescued 15 dogs from an abusive owner following a report from a good Samaritan. The Meade County Sheriff’s Office found the dogs in distress, malnourished, and confined to small enclosures. The local [Read More…]

Sioux Falls police responded to a bank robbery on Friday morning at U.S. Bank on 41st Street where the suspect, later identified as 57-year-old Melvin Gatlin, displayed a note demanding money but did not show [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch, South Dakota News Watch SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – As a former national security adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence and a woman who grew up in small-town South Dakota, Army Col. Andrea [Read More…]

Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight It may seem illogical for John Thune to run for Senate Republican leader after he was booed by Republicans in his own state, but as Thune says, “these aren’t normal times.” [Read More…]

Jackie Hendry, South Dakota News Watch RAPID CITY, S.D. – Just inside the Dahl Arts Center in downtown Rapid City, a large canvas features the painting of an outdoor basketball court behind a chain link [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight For more than two months, state officials unintentionally led some potential legislative candidates to believe they needed hundreds more petition signatures than state law requires. The problem affected independents. Retired Rapid [Read More…]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate took a broadly bipartisan vote early Saturday to approve a $1.2 trillion spending package, sending the measure to President Joe Biden for his signature with no time to spare after [Read More…]

State prison offender William Cody has died. Cody, age 77, passed away at the Jameson Annex to the South Dakota State Penitentiary in Sioux Falls on March 22. He was serving a life sentence out [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota is set to receive $250,000 in federal funding for the implementation of four grassland restoration projects across the eastern part of the state. On Friday, the Department of the Interior announced a [Read More…]

Lyman County, S.D.- A 38-year-old man and a 59-year-old man both died Monday evening in a two-vehicle crash in Lyman County. Preliminary crash information indicates a Ford F-350 driven by Ryan K. Taylor was traveling westbound in the eastbound [Read More…]

Meade County, S.D.- A passenger in a UTV suffered fatal injuries Monday in a single-vehicle crash near Piedmont, SD. Preliminary crash information indicates a UTV driven by Jamie N. Fletcher had left the roadway and struck a tree. A female [Read More…]

A staff member from Whittier Middle School in Sioux Falls, Justin Preuschl, was arrested at his home on March 21 on a charge of solicitation of a minor. The arrest occurred before the school day [Read More…]