Tag: South Dakota
South Dakota locks up women at a higher rate than any other state, report says
A partial view of a state women's prison under construction in Rapid City on Sept. 23, 2025. (Seth…
South Dakota utility regulators decide energy storage facility needs a state permit
A sign displays the names of South Dakota's three elected public utilities commissioners outside of their Pierre office…
South Dakota’s past special sessions
PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — When South Dakota’s legislators gather at the state Capitol on September 23 to decide…
Summit petitions Iowa regulators to remove Dakota’s requirement from pipeline permit
Summit Carbon Solutions representatives pictured at an event in Sioux Falls in January. (Photo by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota…
North Dakota soybean growers anxiously await sales to China
Agricultural economist John Newton, right, answers questions from Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network at the…
Here’s what happened moments before a July 21 fatal jet crash in Minnesota, according to a new report
The flight instructor piloting a jet that crashed July 21 in western Minnesota told the pilot-in-training in the…
Hoping to make pursuits less dangerous, South Dakota Highway Patrol turns to GPS launchers
A new system installed on multiple South Dakota Highway Patrol vehicles is capable of launching a small tracker…
University of South Dakota moving medicine training, biomed science division to Sioux Falls
The University of South Dakota announced Aug. 14 that its Sanford School of Medicine, long the only medical…
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribe hosts North Dakota officials
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate Chair J. Garret Renville speaks Aug. 19, 2025, to the North Dakota Tribal and State Relations…
Power outages across South Dakota government stymie services statewide
The waiting room at the driver licensing is empty on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. Exams were closed due…
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…
New Jewish community center in South Dakota will be a ‘lighthouse’ for unity, leaders say
A historic ceremony was held on Aug. 12 in Sioux Falls when a diverse group of community members,…