Thousands of drivers who have habitat conservation license plates have not actually made a financial contribution for habitat ...

Billy Mawhiney, of Sioux Falls, is the executive director of the South Dakota Afterschool Network.

South Dakota is set to receive at least $52.6 million from Meta, with the total potentially reaching $73.5 million. The money ...

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HURON — Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden and Democratic challenger Dan Ahlers both criticized President Donald Trump on Saturday during a debate at the South Dakota State Fair, with Rhoden saying he ...

According to a recent South Dakota Searchlight story, legislators could get a 4% raise when they gather in Pierre this January. Legislator pay is set at 20% of the state’s household median income as ...

Kayla Essem prayed she’d get arrested. The 32-year-old from Sioux Falls said she had been on and off drugs since she was in high school — fentanyl, cocaine, heroin and meth. Addiction was the only ...

South Dakota’s 2026 general election debate season begins Saturday at the State Fair in Huron. The South Dakota Farmers Union is hosting a debate between Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden and Democratic ...

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A South Dakota Democratic Public Utilities Commission candidate is calling for a one-year ban on new artificial intelligence data centers in the state, while his Republican opponent calls the proposal ...

A Fort Thompson resident and member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe who has more than two decades of experience working with crime victims will serve as South Dakota’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous ...

An experiment deep underground in South Dakota’s Black Hills has reported its “most compelling hint of dark matter” to date. A news release Tuesday from the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment announced the ...