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A lax state mining law and lack of county land-use regulations allowed the operation to be approved without input from the ...

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More than 150 plaintiffs could be part of $17 million legal action at the "prepper" complex in southwest South Dakota.

South Dakota News Watch and Dakota Wesleyan University are again sponsoring the state spelling bee that will send a winner to ...

PIERRE, S.D. – Gov. Larry Rhoden on Monday appointed an Iowa man with a lifetime of correctional leadership experience as the ...

The South Dakota Game Fish & Parks Department stopped publishing an estimate of the pheasant population ahead of the hunting season in 2019. The counts were conducted by state employees who would ...

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