Category Archives: Local/State Headlines

Gov. Larry Rhoden on Monday signed two bills designed to bolster South Dakota's emergency medical services, saying the measures will give frontline responders added protection and flexibility as they ...

Former state lawmaker Dan Ahlers is entering the 2026 race for South Dakota governor. Ahlers, currently the executive director of the South Dakota Democratic Party, will launch his campaign today in S...

A proposal to create a South Dakota Tribal Consultation Commission was rejected Monday, with an 8-4 committee vote ending the bill for the session. House Bill 1190 would have established a formal stru...

Sanford Health is contributing $2 million toward Children's Home Society's new Rapid City Campus, an investment aimed at expanding access to traumainformed care for children across South Dakota. The d...

Two people died after a vehicle overturned in a freezing creek early Saturday in Kyle, South Dakota. According to the Oglala Sioux Tribe Department of Public Safety, officers responded to a crash at 3...

Two B1B Lancer bombers from Ellsworth Air Force Base took center stage Sunday during a historic jointservice flyover at Super Bowl LX. The Ellsworth-based aircraft joined a coordinated formation of U....

The South Dakota State Senate confirmed Governor Larry Rhoden's appointment of Dean Kirkeby to the South Dakota Game, Fish & Parks Commission. Kirkeby is a lifelong South Dakotan and a 1978 gradua...

Governor Larry Rhoden signed the following six bills into law Friday. SB 5 requires the disclosure of whether a ballot question was proposed by initiative or by the Legislature; SB 56 requires that ag...

A legislative panel is backing a move to make South Dakota's temporary 4.2% salestax rate permanent. On Friday, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted 63 to advance Senate Bill 195, sending it to t...

Darrell Shoemaker, Public Information Officer for the City of Rapid City, was inducted into the Rapid City Stevens High School Raider Sports Hall of Fame. He was honored in the Distinguished Service c...