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Bankruptcies, criminal past follow Custer man to South Dakota treasurer's race
A Black Hills Republican with aspirations of becoming South Dakota government’s chief banker and custodian of state funds has a checkered past that includes bankruptcies, bad-check charges and a criminal record.
Sanford Health taking over Lewis Drug pharmacies, retail stores
Sanford Health is buying South Dakota’s largest homegrown pharmacy chain.
South Dakota universities preparing for cuts amid financial warnings
Higher education programs turning out a low number of graduates could be on the chopping block in South Dakota. And that means so could the jobs of the academics teaching them.
Sanford Health: Lewis Drug stores will keep paying taxes
Dozens of Lewis Drug properties in South Dakota will remain on local tax rolls after the pharmacy chain is acquired by Sanford Health.
Reluctant Republicans bless Trump-backed health stimulus; $189M headed to rural S.D.
PIERRE — Deficit-conscious Republicans in the South Dakota Legislature voted Wednesday — some reluctantly — to accept nearly $190 million in federal stimulus funding for rural health care, setting aside broader concerns about national debt in favor of infrastructure investments supporters say could reshape access to care across the state.
All tenured professors at public universities in South Dakota to undergo performance reviews
Earning and keeping tenure as a professor in South Dakota will soon look a lot different at the state’s public universities.
