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Stu Whitney, South Dakota News Watch In the spring of 2024, the Norwegian American Historical Association received some encouraging news. The Minnesota-based organization was approved for a federal grant of about $300,000 to preserve, digitize [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight Norma Torres Ortiz quit her full-time job at a Huron nursing home in February 2019 to spend her days studying for the national nurse licensure exam. Her first language isn’t [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight SIOUX FALLS – The term of art is “insolated, but not isolated.” That’s how Bob Mundt of the Sioux Falls Development Foundation describes his metro area’s position as it faces the [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight Another round of violence erupted Sunday on the campus of the South Dakota State Penitentiary, the Department of Corrections has confirmed. The fight between inmates came a little more than [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight State officials have added two more South Dakota lakes to the fish consumption advisory list after testing found elevated mercury levels in large walleye. The state announced Monday that Dry Lake #1 [Read More…]

Brown County, S.D.- An Aberdeen man died in a single vehicle tractor crash Thursday afternoon six miles southeast of Aberdeen, SD. Preliminary crash information indicates Ronald Allen Glugla, the driver of a Farmall Tractor with a belly mower, was [Read More…]

Todd Epp, Northern Plains News LLC South Dakota Public Broadcasting faces a new funding threat after President Donald Trump signed an executive order recently ending federal support for NPR, PBS and their affiliate stations, including [Read More…]

Todd Epp, Northern Plains News LLC In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, new tariffs have caused South Dakota families to pay more for food, farm inputs, and consumer goods. Federal [Read More…]

MADISON, S.D. (AP) — Dakota State University hasn’t experienced the student protests taking place at other U.S. colleges. Nestled in rural South Dakota, most of the nearly 4,000 students have been focused on their studies [Read More…]

Stu Whitney, South Dakota News Watch More than half of South Dakotans oppose building a new men’s state prison in rural Lincoln County, according to a poll co-sponsored by South Dakota News Watch, another blow [Read More…]

John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight When the South Dakota Department of Corrections announced the site where it hoped to build a 1,500-bed men’s prison in 2023, it told the public it was the only usable site available. [Read More…]

Pe’ Sla, or Reynolds Prairie, is a high-elevation Black Hills meadow of sacred importance to Lakota people. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) Joshua Haiar, South Dakota Searchlight An environmental organization and a Native American advocacy group [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota ranks 46th in the nation for average teacher salaries — its highest standing since the National Education Association started ranking states in 1943, according to the South Dakota Education Association. The [Read More…]