Makenzie Huber

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South Dakota doesn’t have a plan to cover federal food assistance for 75,000 if shutdown continues

From left, Rotarian Barry Sackett moderates a panel on food insecurity with Feeding South Dakota Executive Director Lori…

Task force advances 18 proposals to reduce South Dakota property taxes

A January 2025 view of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)A legislative task…

Noem’s South Dakota neighbors hit with an immigration audit that decimates their workforce

A September 2025 view of Drumgoon Dairy, which Dorothy and Rodney Elliott opened in 2006 near Lake Norden,…

South Dakota State lost $66 million in federal research funding but hopes to get it back

A cow in a pasture near Eureka in September 2024. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight)South Dakota State University is…

South Dakota’s only medical school will move from Vermillion to Sioux Falls

From left, Tim Ridgway, vice president of health affairs and Sanford School of Medicine dean, speaks with medical…