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The Lincoln County Commission continued its descent into acrimony this week after Commissioner Doug Putnam attacked two of his colleagues during their regular meeting Tuesday.

The executive director of the Democratic Party will announce his bid for governor Tuesday in downtown Sioux Falls.

Four candidates running for Sioux Falls mayor pitched about 300 members of the Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce Tuesday on why they have the backgrounds and experiences that best suit them to lead the city.

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham said Tuesday he takes some comfort in knowing a South Dakotan is leading the U.S. Senate amid a national political climate he worries has taken on a dangerous, almost religious intensity.

In Lincoln County, where cornfields once defined the horizon south of Canton, debates over wind farms, pipelines and suburban sprawl now dominate courthouse chambers — a sign of how quickly one of South Dakota’s fastest-growing counties has been transformed by Sioux Falls’ southward march.

A regional pharmacy and retail chain recently purchased by Sanford Health is phasing out all tobacco and nicotine sales.