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Stu Whitney/South Dakota News Watch It was 2017 when Tony Gonsor, a 74-year-old Vietnam veteran and Custer, S.D., resident, took charge of the community’s veterans honor guard, presenting military honors at funerals and on holidays [Read More…]

Stu Whitney/South Dakota News Watch SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – One of the Midwest’s most prominent election deniers stood next to a pinball machine at the Military Heritage Alliance in Sioux Falls in October, outlining how [Read More…]

Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight The countdown is on. The 2024 general election is about a year out, and South Dakota’s ballot could be a long one: There are 15 potential ballot questions listed on the Secretary [Read More…]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union of South Dakota announced Monday that it is suing South Dakota over a state law that restricts content on vanity plates. The ACLU said in a press [Read More…]

John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight Lawmakers swatted back an attempt to ban flavoring in marijuana edibles and vape products on Tuesday in Pierre. They also shot down a rule that would have forced cannabis manufacturers to [Read More…]

A recent analysis by The Washington Post revealed that South Dakota witnessed one of the highest percentage increases in the number of students receiving lessons in homeschooling settings instead of public K-12 schools in recent [Read More…]

Federal regulators say they’ll reduce grant funding to South Dakota if the state doesn’t do a better job preventing excavation damages to buried pipelines. The warning came in a letter this month from the U.S. [Read More…]

Sioux Falls police are currently investigating an incident in which a gunshot was fired outside an apartment in the 900 block of N. Omaha Ave. The bullet penetrated multiple walls, with several residents inside hearing [Read More…]

(John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) People will no longer get free entrance at South Dakota’s state parks or free fishing on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. The Legislature’s Interim Rules Review Committee signed off on a [Read More…]

(John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) Gov. Kristi Noem has issued 40 pardons since April, according to records on file with the Secretary of State’s Office. The pardons bring the total number issued by Gov. Noem since [Read More…]

A deadly accident occurred on the east side of Sioux Falls on Saturday morning, resulting in one fatality and another person in critical condition. The incident took place at the intersection of East 26th Street [Read More…]

Brian Jorde, at right, and Ryan Cwach, attorneys for opponent landowners, participate in a Public Utilities Commission hearing July 25, 2023, in Fort Pierre on the permit application for the proposed Heartland Greenway carbon dioxide [Read More…]

A Sioux Falls man, 19-year-old Manarion Timothy Douglas Fuse, was arrested after allegedly firing a gun at a parked vehicle containing a 17-year-old male, a 19-year-old female, and an infant. The incident occurred around 12:10 [Read More…]

Law enforcement agencies in the Sioux Falls and Rapid City areas have announced their plans to encrypt their radios, making them inaccessible to the public on scanners starting from November 13. This decision complies with [Read More…]

(John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) South Dakota prosecutors filed more juvenile delinquency petitions in fiscal year 2023 than at any time in nearly a decade, according to an annual report presented Wednesday to a state committee. [Read More…]

Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight Governors criticizing an NCAA policy on transgender student athletes may put their universities at risk of “penalties or ramifications” if those institutions disobey the policy, according to a sports law scholar. [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. — The South Dakota Department of Public Safety has announced plans for 13 sobriety checkpoints in 13 different counties during November. Checkpoints are scheduled for these counties: Beadle, Brown, Butte, Clay, Codington, Day, [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. — On Wednesday, the South Dakota Department of Transportation announced the fourth annual snowplow naming contest. Over the past three winters, SDDOT has actively engaged with thousands of South Dakotans to bring this [Read More…]

PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a Watertown woman has been sentenced after earlier pleading guilty to one count of Grand Theft. Danielle L. Johnson, 36, was sentenced Wednesday in Codington [Read More…]

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — The Chihuahua State Attorney General’s office said the four U.S.-born siblings reported missing during the weekend have been located safe and sound and are back in South Dakota with their biological [Read More…]