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South Dakota regents want another tuition freeze, counter to Noem budget
A call from Kristi, commutation questions & why we can't live in New Orleans
Catholic Diocese chancellor to lead South Dakota Social Services Department
Sioux Steel wins $12M jury verdict in patent lawsuit
New Census data show South Dakota had fifth highest rate of growth in population
State High Court allows Sioux Falls to demolish mansion that was never completed
Woman commuted by Noem worked in governor's mansion, has pending DUI charge
South Dakota Rep. Kevin Jensen to challenge Wiik in race for GOP chair
Murders and rapes down in latest South Dakota crime report, DUIs jump
Missouri River residential development challenged in court
Salary increases, Covid force Minnehaha County to dip into funds
A closer look at the crimes of some of the women Gov. Kristi Noem commuted on Christmas Eve
Three Minnehaha County elected officials could get big pay raises next year
Scouting Hollywood (Dec. 22, 2022)
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
A letter from Santa: St. Nick is all around us
A wonderful life in a northwestern Iowa valley
A holiday message from the governor: I Heard the Bells
Noem commutes seven prison sentences, including three women serving time for manslaughter.
Weekly cartoon: Happy Holidays
Evolving on China, the neurotic naming of winter storms & food tax vs. sales tax cuts
More reinforcements heading to Rosebud, other South Dakota Indian reservations
New social studies standards deserve your support
Emerald ash borer spreading across eastern South Dakota
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Noem appoints advanced nurse, former lawmaker, as Health Department secretary
U.S. defense sends hundreds of millions to South Dakota
Noem fires back at Family Heritage Alliance, scorns organization's director
Noem again closes state offices amid extreme winter weather in South Dakota
South Dakota sells China stocks in state's investment portfolio
John Thune endorses John Wiik in GOP chairman bid
Regents call for development of 'minors on campus' policy after 'kid-friendly' drag show
Sioux Falls City Council OKs first hike of special downtown tax in three decades
Industry powerhouses gobble up most of Sioux Falls' remaining video lottery locations
Retirement around the corner for Minnehaha County Commissioners Jeff Barth and Cindy Heiberger
Marty Jackley taps former South Dakota AG Barnett for eight-member leadership team
More anti-pot lobbyists headed to Pierre
Regents unhappy about 'kid-friendly' drag show on South Dakota college campus
Family Heritage Alliance wants action from Noem after 'kid-friendly' drag show at SDSU
After four years, Dusty Johnson to get taste of life in the majority
Court: Daughter's tip justified traffic stop that led to DUI conviction
Scouting Hollywood (Dec. 15, 2022)
The South Dakota Legislative Circus: Institutionalists versus performers
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
GOP leaders to propose legislative travel reform
Legislative predictions, how the Partridge Amendment came to be, the value of lawmaker travel
Here's a look at 11 outdated, 'offensive' laws targeting Native Americans that are going away
Bah humbug! Scrooge and 'A Christmas Carol' return to the Orpheum Theater
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Sioux Falls restaurant caught underpaying workers
South Dakota accused of overtaxing sales by more than $4 million since 2021
Fatal brain disease confirmed in eastern South Dakota deer
Two more counties sued over opposition to carbon pipeline
Sioux Falls unveils concepts for new pools at Kuehn, Frank Olson, McKennan and other public parks
Noem announces legislation to restrict foreign ownership of ag land, cites China
Travel records for legislator Hawaii trip might not be available until April
Consultant: Fairground rebuild could cost Minnehaha County more than $100 million
Noem reopens state offices Thursday in several South Dakota counties
Wiik unveils list of heavyweight endorsements in bid for GOP chairman
Daktronics buffeted by supply chain shortages, China's zero-COVID-19 strategy
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
Outgoing South Dakota legislators criticized after taxpayer-paid Hawaii trip
South Dakota House Speaker injured in cliff jumping accident
Superhero-meets-Western script leads to honor for Sioux Falls writer
Following election defeat, battle to legalize marijuana not yet over in South Dakota
More marijuana cometh, dragging pajamas & an unhelpful bureaucrat
Lincoln County Commission approves $54.8M bond for new courthouse
Mayor TenHaken's top finance officer set to direct second department at Sioux Falls City Hall
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Gov. Noem gives South Dakota Investment Council a week to review $20B in assets
Can Noem win South Dakota’s looming food tax fight?
Daktronics shares plummet amid SEC report expressing doubts 'as a going concern'
Construction company: TIF-backed housing project on track despite cash flow challenges
Gaming companies scrambling for remaining video lottery locations in Sioux Falls
Push for downtown Sioux Falls tax hike hits snag
Holy cross markings spur policy forbidding Capitol property alterations
Noem tells lawmakers South Dakota can afford cut on food tax
Read South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem's budget address here
GOP's Santorum: 'We're coming back' for constitutional convention
Attorney General's Office reverses course on hemp, says crop brings challenges to pot enforcement
Trump's remarks about U.S. Constitution draw criticisms from South Dakota's GOP politicians
Minnehaha County joins regulation talks regarding Airbnb, short-term rentals
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
On new Lincoln County courthouse, one choice is clear
Hemp, Monae Johnson's victory & hunting for South Dakota's missing and murdered
Monae Johnson to take over as Secretary of State early
Ellsworth Air Force Base's B-21s unveiled with South Dakota delegation on hand
Scouting Hollywood (Dec. 1, 2022)
The Dakota Scout print edition
Weekly cartoon: ...not as I do.
Gov. Kristi Noem wants free college for South Dakota Guard members
Constitutional amendment would open up South Dakota primaries to all voters
Pork plant lawsuit against city of Sioux Falls dismissed
Kristi Noem looks to Washington, D.C. to fill another position in governor's office
South Dakota stepping up hunt for missing, murdered Native women
Gov. Kristi Noem bans TikTok on state-owned devices
South Dakota taking nominations for endangered, threatened species study
South Dakota has new coordinator to tackle backlog of missing and murdered cases
Rick Santorum, Convention of States to make another push for constitutional overhaul in South Dakota
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
Post-election fallout, Holy chairs at the Capitol & what's on the mind of a new Democratic lawmaker
Weekly cartoon: Not so fast, Google
Forum Communications' entry into Sioux Falls broadcast market latest evolution in South Dakota media
Holy cross markings left on Capitol chairs prompt complaint
Analysis: Sioux Falls betting on video lottery regulations
The Dakota Scout print edition
How one lawmaker swung the South Dakota house speaker race
Former House Speaker returning to South Dakota Secretary of State office
Letter: Marijuana. Is it a moral issue?
Polaris denies responsibility for crash that caused driver $500,000 in medical bills
Dueling concepts have Lincoln County split over potential justice center
Gov. Noem backing potential replacement for Lederman as South Dakota GOP chair
Dozens of South Dakota's Vietnam veterans honored for combat service decades later
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
Analysis: Did Election Day mark success for pipeline or weakness of Democratic Party?
Weekly cartoon: Meanwhile, at the South Dakota Gaming Commission
Moderates sweep GOP leadership elections in South Dakota state House
Task force unveils $1.5M, ‘action-driven’ plan to fight homelessness in Sioux Falls
The GOP's weed man, when Sanford two-timed Fairview & a lesson on the First Amendment
Kosher just got easier in South Dakota
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Noem rejects claim that she is 'inching away' from Trump
Sanford, Fairview's decade of flirtation
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison opens investigation into Sanford-Fairview merger
Lawmakers want answers after SDSU announces 'kid friendly' drag queen show
GOP chairman doubling as marijuana grower
Sioux Falls caps video lottery locations, reforms 2019 'co-mingling' ordinance
Google to pay South Dakota $4.2M in legal settlement stemming from consumer protection violations
Sanford, Fairview, announce Upper Great Plains merger
Counter-terrorism head returning to South Dakota's top detective agency
Sioux Falls considering de facto ban on short-term rental listings
Crabtree elected to lead Senate Republicans
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
Dell Rapids musician inducted into South Dakota Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Spike in Sioux Falls video lottery casinos brings push to overhaul city's gaming rules
Karl Rove tells Sioux Falls audience that U.S. political system has been far more vicious than now
Analysis: Slaughterhouse vote marks improbable victory in Sioux Falls contest
Sioux Falls voters reject ban on new slaughterhouses
South Dakotans change course, reject marijuana legalization in 2022 election
South Dakota voters say yes to key Obamacare provision
Noem wins convincing victory to seal second term
Dusty Johnson wins third congressional term
Thune carries South Dakota Senate election with ease
Special edition: Election Day predictions
Brown County joins list of entities, landowners, sued over carbon pipeline
South Dakota Senate candidate facing child sex charge posts $100,000 bail
The Dakota Scout: Our complete Election 2022 coverage
Sanford Health in merger negotiations with Minnesota-based Fairview
Pork processing advocates issue cease-and-desist notice, aerial footage of gated compound
Will Donald Trump rally for Gov. Noem at Black Hills event Monday?
Meet the candidates: Two competing to fill open Circuit Court judgeship
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
Weekly cartoon: '...if you can keep it.'
2020 election lingers over secretary of state contest
Bengs takes his shots in his one Senate debate against Thune
Running through the tape, show me the (campaign) money & Mayor TenHaken talks pot
Carbon pipeline, eminent domain powers roil Public Utilities Commission race
Voter registrations reach historic divide
Jeff Broin’s POET gives $1M to anti-slaughterhouse campaign
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Letter: Reject the fear, fluff and clothes pins
South Dakota senate candidate faces sexual grooming child abuse charge
Meet the candidates: Three spots up for grabs in Minnehaha County Commission race
Senate candidate under investigation in child abuse probe
Is Sioux Falls' events campus a 'sunk-cost fallacy?'
Second annual 'Novem-burn' grow-off to benefit Sioux Falls-area triage center, Helpline
Appeals court deals Noem, Legislature, defeat on petition case
LETTER: Brown County lawmaker says it's time to end cannabis prohibition in South Dakota
Sioux Empire Fair profits jump in 2022
Judicial candidate admonished for Code of Conduct violations
LETTER: Sioux Falls councilor voices support for Wholestone Farms
Carbon pipeline company sues Edmunds County and its commissioners
Newcomers vie to become Minnehaha County auditor
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POINT: Vote ‘yes’ for less slaughterhouses in Sioux Falls
Meals for votes? Big Marijuana takes pass & Rick Steves' crusade to legalize grass
Kristi Noem makes $700K ad buy ahead of Election Day as Smith launches statewide tour
Weekly cartoon: Welcome to the neighborhood
The Dakota Scout print edition
Lawmakers want answers about funds holding $55 million for work comp claims
Group behind Sioux Falls' newest butcher shop operates worldwide, including China
Sioux Falls video lottery boom has Councilors considering putting cap on new casinos
Noem won't face criminal investigation into state airplane
Out-of-state cash dries up for pro-pot group ahead of recreational marijuana vote
Cities would lose sales tax revenue from groceries under proposed ballot measures
South Dakota governor's race: Kristi Noem opts for veteran benefit over SDPB debate
Meet the candidates: A round up of Sioux Falls-area legislative contests
Letter: Slaughterhouse ban sets dangerous precedent
Long-shot Libertarian, Dusty Johnson square off ahead of U.S. House election
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
Op-ed: Jamie Smith is too extreme for common sense South Dakota
Op-ed: Vote out South Dakota Governor Noem’s 'Kristi Tax' to restore South Dakota values
Retired Brig. Gen. Dean Mann honored as National Guard breaks ground for new readiness center
Libertarian redeems party, DeSantis revisionism & 'Merica
GOP House Speaker: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem 'expressed disdain' for tax cuts in February
Weekly cartoon: Stuff's dangerous
The Dakota Scout print edition
Letter: Pork plant vote skirts legislative process
Anti-pot coalition waging heavier campaign against recreational marijuana in S.D. this time around
South Dakota's last Democratic governor dies
Meet the candidates: Republicans retain District 9 Senate seat while three vie for two House seats
Judge won't revoke Wholestone butcher shop permits despite questions of legality
Letter: Councilor Cole endorses Bleyenberg for commission seat
Democrat Brian Bengs stands between John Thune and historic fourth term
Meet the Candidates: Bolin seeks final Senate term in District 16
Sioux Falls’ first accessible housing TIF gets approval
Letter: Hogs in the woodchipper
Letter: Farmers urged to stop buying from POET for slaughterhouse involvement
Thune campaign tops $17 million ahead of November election
Meet the candidates: District 12 voters to seat new Senator, at least one new House member
Meet the candidates: A pair of incumbents hope to maintain seats in crowded District 11 contests
Counterpoint: Research shows why IM27 should be resoundingly rejected
Point: Give South Dakotans the freedom to use pot responsibly
Brandon-area voters to decide three-way race for state House in newly created District 2
Food fight, political dancing & the resignation that never happened
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
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Letter: 340B Program provides access to medications
Letter: County Health and Human Service staff deserve praise for compassion, dedication
Noem's call to end levy on food latest wrinkle in balancing revenue, fairness
'These people are sick': Call to Freedom marshals support for human trafficking fight
Gov. Kristi Noem not calling special session to cut food tax
High fuel prices have city of Sioux Falls dipping into reserves
Sioux Falls councilors want proof another parking ramp project won't go belly-up
Freedom Scholarship endowment gets another $50 million donation
Wholestone slaughterhouse project dealt major defeat
Meet the candidates: District 14 voters have full slate of Democrats, Republicans on 2022 ballot
Letter: Support for Zikmund, participating in elections
Native American Day Parade returns to downtown Sioux Falls after two-year hiatus
Comedian Nick Hoff headlining at Tea comedy club
Outspoken swimmer helps Gov. Noem in new attack ad on Jamie Smith
Former Sioux Falls mayor survives motorcycle crash after colliding with bear in Idaho
Post Ravnsborg, South Dakota prosecutors again using Attorney General's Office training
Counterpoint: Will Medicaid expansion help or hurt South Dakotans?
Point: Amendment D good for South Dakota's health, economy
Weekly cartoon: GOP Fight Night
Pool, pork & latrine flies swarm
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Pork plant vote not Broin’s first foray into ballot process
Associates of Wholestone Farms project call bribery scandal 'ancient history'
Pro-pork plant group doubles up on opposition in latest campaign finance reports
Meet the candidates: Kolbeck, Hubbel on ballot in District 13 contest for state Senate
Despite unresolved lawsuits, Summit officials say CO2 pipeline on track for 2024 completion
Aberdeen-area lawmaker among 20 U.S. legislators to receive national award
Meet the candidates: Four vying for two spots in South Dakota's redrawn District 25
Analysis: Noem has spent her debating career going for the jugular; Friday's debate was no different
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
Noem, Smith trade blows in lone South Dakota gubernatorial debate
Exploding hand grenades, testing for rabies & price-fixing meat lords
Lawmakers, candidates for governor want to leave city food taxes alone
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Weekly cartoon: Stuck in the middle
Letter: Bleyenberg suited for service
Letter: Setting the wind farm record straight
Letter: Do landowners have rights?
Smithfield Foods agrees to multimillion dollar price-fixing settlement
Gov. Kristi Noem accused of shifting on food tax cuts after call for grocery exemption
Minnehaha County Commission moves public comments to end of meetings
Democrat Jamie Smith looks to make South Dakota political history
Gov. Kristi Noem riding COVID-19 response, Biden unfavorability toward second term
To build or not to build? Sioux Falls considering moving bus barn out of downtown
Gold Star families from South Dakota get monument recognizing their sacrifice
On abortion, South Dakota Democrats following national strategy
Day Old Coffee: A lunch interview with Laura Jane Grace
Counterpoint: South Dakota social studies standards will hurt students
Point: Let's meet the social studies standards challenge
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest
Chernobyl on the River, lots of CO2 & a post-Pearl Jam glow
Weekly cartoon: David v. Goliath 2022
Sioux Falls, surrounding communities oppose Biden administration on greenhouse gas rules
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Concerns over food security leading to resurgence of home canning
Activists, officials continue sparring over South Dakota election records, vote counts
Sioux Falls City Hall could sell $21M downtown parking ramp to private sector
Lawsuits fly over carbon pipeline that would run through 18 South Dakota counties
Sioux Falls Open for Business organizes to block November slaughterhouse vote
Officials: Parolees, firearms and drugs driving South Dakota's violent crime trend
South Dakota state Senate leader: Change Republican Party nomination rules or else
Noem's bad back, Tequila the Rottweiler and Joe excoriates the Twitter trolls (Take 2)
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Wind projects deserve more scrutiny (Guest op-ed)
The Scouting Report: A weekly digest (Sept. 16, 2022)
Landlord not liable for dog attack, high court rules
$50k headed to State Theatre to help finish restoration project in downtown Sioux Falls
Business and ag groups announce opposition to slaughterhouse measure
High-profile violent crime puts spotlight on South Dakota parole system
Dell Rapids City Hall to relocate, but staying on main street
Governor's office: Taxpayers not paying Noem's legal representation in ethics probe
Video: Jeff Barth strikes again with another quirky campaign ad
Judge orders Lincoln County to preserve election records, but questions if they exist
My bill to block the Tok (Guest op-ed)
$4.5M spillway replacement first phase of years-long Lake Alvin improvement plan
Dogs of art: Sidewalk Arts Festival brings thousands to downtown Sioux Falls - and their pets
Night court, a crazy owl (plus bird impressions) & a boatload of breaking news
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Video: Owl terrorizes Sioux Falls residents vacationing at Lake Okoboji
New court program will address growing backlog of outstanding warrants
First-ever accessible housing TIF headed to Sioux Falls City Council for approval
Report: POET, Broins not only backers of pork plant opposition
85th Street & I-29 interchange to break ground as early as 2023
Entertainment: Florida comic, a.k.a. 'Captain Autism,' at Boss' Comedy Club Friday
The Flower Shop opening marks Sioux Falls' first medical cannabis dispensary
Ellis: Kansas vote suggests South Dakota’s abortion ban could be on borrowed time
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Music: The Claudettes bringing soul & sass to Icon in downtown Sioux Falls
Opponents of new Sioux Falls slaughterhouse want Gov. Noem’s records. Here’s why they won’t get them
Judge orders county auditors to preserve election records
Downtown Sioux Falls property owners brace for tax hike as group makes case for need
What the heck is The Dakota Scout?
Jails are unpopular with voters, but money still needed, lawmakers say
Weekly cartoon: There's a new Scout on the Frontier
Union membership in South Dakota receding as private-sector workforce expands
First West River marijuana dispensary to open Thursday in Rapid City
Feds covering Covid sick leave for Minnehaha County until Christmas holiday
Dusty Johnson tells Chamber group that many U.S. House members suffer from cognitive decline
Israeli consul general to Midwest makes stops in Sioux Falls, South Dakota Capitol
Karl Rove, George W. Bush advisor, to speak at law enforcement dinner
City Hall wants full-time arts staffer
Boat accident prompts South Dakota man to sue federal government
More than half of kids locked up in Sioux Falls on psychiatric drugs
Veteran reporters Jonathan Ellis, Joe Sneve mark new era in South Dakota journalism