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Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight Seven landowners in Bon Homme and Charles Mix counties will receive a total of nearly $128,000 from the federal government after the U.S. Court of Federal Claims found their land was [Read More…]

Emily DeCock/South Dakota News Watch The boards that oversee South Dakota’s 10 public colleges are drafting policies in accordance with a new state law that will allow students to carry concealed weapons on campus. Starting [Read More…]

Governor Larry Rhoden has agreed to postpone the special legislative session initially scheduled for July to decide the future of the South Dakota State Penitentiary. Lieutenant Governor Tony Venhuizen, chair of the Project Prison Reset [Read More…]

Jennifer Shutt/South Dakota Searchlight WASHINGTON — The U.S. House narrowly passed legislation Thursday that would revoke $9.4 billion in previously approved funding for public media, including National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, as [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The students who earned their certificates of library management this month with the aid of the South Dakota State Library will be the last for now, due to budget cuts. The [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight More than a dozen people raised concerns and questions about unintentionally separating patients from their health care and other aspects of South Dakota’s proposed Medicaid expansion work requirements during the plan’s [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The state is investigating another death in Department of Corrections custody. Nicholas Skorka, 42, died at the South Dakota State Penitentiary on Tuesday, according to a press release. The release did [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight Public safety officials are scrambling to make backup plans after Black Hills Energy announced it will develop a public safety power shut-off program this summer. A public safety power shut-off is [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The longest-serving current justice of South Dakota’s Supreme Court will step down in December, creating a vacancy to be filled by Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden. Justice Janine Kern represents the high [Read More…]

Jeff Beach/North Dakota Monitor WEST FARGO, N.D. — The demand for jet fuel is going up. The demand for gasoline is going down. That’s the simple explanation from Chris Ryan, the president and chief operating [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight The South Dakota Department of Corrections will not offer a promised diesel mechanic training program in a space once occupied by a privately run metal shop that paid inmates market wages. [Read More…]

Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch  Iowa corn, soybeans, oats and hay crops all rated 80% good or excellent during the latest crop progress and condition report, even as the U.S. Drought Monitor logged most of the [Read More…]

Sheriff Steve Harr has addressed his position on the potential state prison in Davison County, acknowledging strong opinions both for and against it. Initially, many residents he spoke with supported the idea, and he signed [Read More…]