The South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS) has finished processing partial SNAP benefits for all eligible recipients. These benefits were made available on Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards overnight. The partial amounts are based on guidance received from the USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) on...

A collaborative operation between the Sturgis Police Department and the Deadwood Police Department took place Tuesday as officers executed a search warrant at a residence in Sturgis, resulting in the confiscation of multiple illegal substances and firearms. During the search, law enforcement recovered several pounds of...

Residents across the region were treated to a dazzling display of the northern lights, as a powerful geomagnetic storm pushed the aurora borealis far south of its usual range. Triggered by multiple coronal mass ejections (CMEs) from the sun, the storm reached G3-G4 intensity levels, allowing the auroras to be visible i...

U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., announced that a stopgap bill to reopen the federal government includes $21.9 million in funding for South Dakota projects he requested. The bill covers full-year appropriations for agriculture, the legislative branch, military construction, and veterans' affairs. Seven of Rounds' earmark...

Five South Dakota tribes are calling on the congressional delegation to help reinstate federal funding for a tribal data repository project led by the Native BioData Consortium, a genetics lab based in Eagle Butte on the Cheyenne River Reservation. The project, known as the Data for Indigenous Implementations, Interven...

The Senate approved bipartisan legislation to end the nation's record 41-day government shutdown. The measure passed 60-40 with eight Democrats joining Republicans in support. The shutdown began Oct. 1, surpassing the 35-day closure of 2018-2019. House...

The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from former Kentucky clerk Kim Davis challenging same-sex marriage. Davis sought to overturn the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. She argued the ruling mi...

The Trump administration directed states to "immediately undo any steps" taken to issue full SNAP benefits for November. A USDA memo warned that states failing to comply could face financial penalties and that any full SNAP payments already sent "were ...

A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to send full SNAP payments to states by Friday. U.S. District Judge John McConnell issued the order Thursday after two weeks of uncertainty over food stamp funding during the government shutdown. Th...

Supreme Court justices voiced strong doubts about the Trump administration's use of emergency powers to impose tariffs. Even conservative members pressed Solicitor General D. John Sauer, who argued that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act a...