South Dakota

Transgender sports bill gains SD Senate committee's support

One year after vetoing a bill to ban transgender girls from playing sports, Gov. Kristi Noem's team defended a new proposal to allow girls to sue a school if they lose to a transgender girl in sports

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South Dakota losing public reservoirs, one torrential rain after another

The South Dakota Legislature has a menu of infrastructure fixes this year, including some state-owned spillways damaged in flooding and record rainfall in 2018 and '19. But few lawmakers will invoke the words "climate change," which an engineering professor says the state is not prepared to address.

January 14, 2022 10:00 AM

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Sisseton-Wahpeton chairman calls for 'history and humanity' in South Dakota speech

The state of the tribes address has annually been apart of the opening week of the South Dakota legislative session.

January 13, 2022 04:48 PM

South Dakota

Man charged in Jan. 6 attacks appears in federal court in Sioux Falls

Billy Knutson did not enter a plea during his initial appearance in federal court. Federal prosecutors are charging Knutson with illegally entering the U.S. Capitol during last year's mob violence.

January 13, 2022 04:29 PM

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Teacher's pot brownies mistakenly served to 'several' at card game, police say

The leftover brownies were surrendered to police.

January 13, 2022 10:55 AM

By Hunter Dunteman

South Dakota

South Dakota legislator tests positive for COVID-19

Sen. Reynold Nesiba told reporters he tested positive on the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 12. The 2022 legislative session kicked off on Tuesday, without a mask mandate in place.

January 12, 2022 01:08 PM

By Christopher Vondracek

South Dakota

Report: T. Denny Sanford still under investigation in child porn case

The Argus Leader reports that an inquiry into child pornography charges against the South Dakota billionaire philanthropist has not been closed, according to a filing in an ongoing fight over open records.

January 12, 2022 12:22 PM

By Christopher Vondracek

South Dakota

Watch: Gov. Kristi Noem delivers the State of the State address

Noem spoke to the South Dakota Legislature on Tuesday. Watch a video here.

January 11, 2022 10:43 AM

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Sen. Mike Rounds calls 2020 election fair, raising Donald Trump's anger

The former president had issued a statement lambasting Rounds as a "jerk" for referring to the 2020 presidential election that Trump lost by 7 million votes (and 74 votes in the electoral college) as "fair."

January 10, 2022 05:54 PM

By Christopher Vondracek

South Dakota

South Dakota Legislature will debate new infrastructure projects, argue critical race theory

The state's citizen Legislature, less than a year before new elections, will also tackle night-vision hunting for coyotes, electric-powered ATVs, and plans to build a new Rapid City workhouse.

January 10, 2022 11:19 AM

By Christopher Vondracek

South Dakota

South Dakotans to decide Medicaid expansion in November election

A coalition of health care organizations, backed by Sanford and Avera, has gathered enough petitions to put the question of expanding the federal healthcare program to tens thousands of low-income South Dakotans on the upcoming general election ballot, says Secretary of State Steve Barnett.

January 04, 2022 02:00 PM

By Christopher Vondracek

South Dakota

South Dakota sees freight train of marijuana-related bills ahead of 2022 legislative session

Of the 38 bills posted to the state legislative website prior to next week's session, over 70% of them are in one way or another related to the state's medical marijuana or a proposed adult use pot programs.

January 03, 2022 04:34 PM

By Christopher Vondracek

South Dakota

South Dakota man indicted in espionage case will remain in custody, judge rules

John Murray Rowe Jr. was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on one count of violating U.S. espionage law for sending classified information on fighter jets to a FBI agent in disguise as a member of the Russian Federation.

December 30, 2021 01:49 PM

By Christopher Vondracek