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Yankton County, S.D.- A motorcyclist suffered fatal injuries yesterday in a two-vehicle crash near Volin, SD. The names of the persons involved have not been released pending notification of family members. Preliminary crash information indicates a 65-year-old male driver [Read More…]

South Dakota Searchlight A state board approved three loans Wednesday worth a total of $3.7 million, supporting $9.7 million in capital investments and a projected 35 full-time jobs. The Board of Economic Development approved the [Read More…]

Amy Dalrymple, North Dakota Monitor An Indigenous environmental activist who testified Tuesday in a trial over Dakota Access Pipeline protest costs criticized the court case and said the state of North Dakota should pay the [Read More…]

WASHINGTON — Citing major national security concerns, the U.S. House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bill that effectively bans TikTok unless the company splits from its Chinese owner ByteDance. The 352-65 vote occurred just a week [Read More…]

KIMBALL, S.D. –  Beginning Monday, March 18, 2024, guardrail removal work will begin on the overhead bridge on Interstate 90 at Kimball (exit 284). Traffic will be reduced to one lane. The speed limit will [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Gov. Kristi Noem has granted a commutation to a convicted murderer that will allow him a shot at parole, but not for another eight years. Roscoe Primeaux, 63, arrived in prison [Read More…]

A Sioux Falls man, Michael James-Phillip Pettigrew, 33, was sentenced to 70 years in prison at the Minnehaha County Courthouse for charges related to three aggravated assaults from October 2022. Pettigrew was arrested for stabbing [Read More…]

After multiple days of searching, 17-year-old Wyatt Rowland has been found deceased. Hand County Sheriff Shane Croeni confirmed that Wyatt and his pickup were found separately in a small body of water north of Miller. [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Housing Development Authority Board has awarded about $113 million in taxpayer funding to help pay for infrastructure at 73 housing projects across the state in the last [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight Utility regulators took actions Tuesday that will allow a solar energy project to start producing electricity ahead of schedule at the largest solar farm in the state. Wild Springs Solar’s $190 million project sprawls [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota politicians and representatives of the cattle industry are applauding a new U.S. Department of Agriculture rule aimed at ensuring the voluntary “Product of USA” label means what it says. [Read More…]

29-year-old Chris Phoumy, a former childcare worker, was sentenced to a total of 50 years in prison for charges related to child pornography and sexual contact with children under his care. Phoumy faced nine counts [Read More…]

Worried about hospitals closing and higher costs for patients, state lawmakers are increasingly tangling with hospitals over potential health care mergers, in some cases derailing deals they think don’t serve the public interest. Financially strapped [Read More…]

Bart Pfankuch / South Dakota News Watch HILL CITY, S.D. – With craggy ridges and hillsides framing it, there isn’t much space for new housing to serve the rapid growth occurring in this picturesque tourism [Read More…]

Armando Angel Cheshier of Sioux Falls has been sentenced to 21 years in prison for charges related to the death of 19-year-old Kaylee Teppo in 2021. Cheshier was convicted in 2022 of providing drugs to [Read More…]

  Stu Whitney, South Dakota News Watch Most of the county officials who administer elections in South Dakota don’t consider hand counting to be an effective or efficient method of tabulating votes. That’s the result [Read More…]

Gregory Landers, 53, has been brought back to South Dakota and is currently in the Pennington County Jail. He is charged with first-degree manslaughter in the shooting death of 30-year-old Acey Morrison, which occurred at [Read More…]

Mitchell’s initiative offering $1,000 for relocation to fill full-time positions has succeeded in reducing job openings. Launched by the Mitchell Area Development Corporation last fall, the program attracted new residents and reduced job openings to [Read More…]

A shooting incident resulted in the death of a man in Rapid City on Friday afternoon. The Rapid City Police Department received a report of a gunshot in the 4500 block of Candlewood Place at [Read More…]