Category Archives: Local/State Headlines

Lawmakers have introduced a new Senate proposal-dubbed the "Data Center Bill of Rights for Citizens"-aimed at setting clearer rules for building data centers in South Dakota. The measure follows growi...

Black Hills Energy can now offer a special electricity rate to large power users in South Dakota after the state Public Utilities Commission approved the proposal in a 2-1 vote on Tuesday. Commissione...

South Dakota Health Secretary Melissa Magstadt presented her budget a day after the House voted 56-11 to let the Department of Health spend $402 million in federal funds to strengthen rural healthcare...

South Dakota lawmakers advanced a proposed constitutional amendment that would restrict the use of eminent domain. The measure would bar nongovernmental entities from taking private land when the sole...

Rapid City collected more than $81.6 million in sales tax revenue through November 2025, up 3.23% from the same period in 2024. The city also set a new November record, bringing in $7 million, the fir...

Rapid City police are investigating a suspicious death after an unresponsive man was found Monday afternoon in an improvised outdoor encampment near the railroad tracks along the 100 block of E. North...

Rapid City police have arrested a 19yearold man after gunfire damaged an apartment building Thursday and sparked an afternoon search. Officers were first called just after 11:30 Thursday morning to th...

Abdul Waheed Mohammed, 33, was sentenced Monday in federal court to five years in prison for his role in a scheme that defrauded an elderly Rapid City woman out of more than $100,000. Mohammed was con...

Pam White Butterfly has been sentenced to life in the South Dakota State Penitentiary for the firstdegree murder of 68yearold Lenart Brown Eyes, who was fatally shot on February 23, 2025. She received...

Gov. Larry Rhoden has asked the South Dakota Supreme Court for an advisory opinion on whether the state Constitution allows the Lieutenant Governor, as President of the Senate, to cast a vote in the e...