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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

South Dakota farmers are sending Washington a message with their acres. It deserves attention. This year, producers offered nearly 290,000 South Dakota acres for Conservation Reserve Program ...

South Dakota Republican U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds said he wants to “get the facts” before deciding whether any medals awarded to soldiers who were at the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre should be rescinded, ...

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 ...

In a survey weighted toward South Dakotans most likely to experience food insecurity, 30% indicated they were skipping meals to stay within their budget, according to the recently released South ...

The South Dakota Department of Social Services said Monday that it submitted a request to the U.S. Department of Agriculture to bar the purchase of soft drinks with government food assistance, after a ...