Category Archives: Local/State Headlines

A Pennington County judge sentenced 20-year-old Ethan Moody to eight years in prison, with four years suspended, for possessing child sexual abuse material. Moody pleaded guilty to one count in July a...

A Pennington County jury began deliberations Tuesday morning in the insanity trial of Walter Mousseau Jr., 30, of Pine Ridge, who was convicted last week of second-degree murder and drug ingestion in ...

Thanksgiving 2025 is shaping up to be one of the busiest travel periods in recent memory, and South Dakotans are joining the nationwide surge in holiday movement, according to new projections from AAA...

Both chambers of Congress voted Tuesday to approve legislation requiring the Department of Justice to release its files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender whose case has drawn nati...

The South Dakota Board of Elections is reviewing 17 proposed changes ahead of the 2026 legislative session, which begins Jan. 13. Among the ideas presented by Secretary of State Monae Johnson and Depu...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is analyzing trade data to determine whether farmers need additional aid for tariff-related losses, Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden said Monday. The Trump administrat...

Sanford Health announced plans to bring the Sanford Black Hills Medical Center campus to Rapid City, thanks to a $300 million investment by philanthropist T. Denny Sanford. The state-of-the-art 480,00...

The South Dakota Department of Social Services (DSS) will issue the remaining November SNAP benefits this week. Case processing began over the weekend, and benefits were scheduled to be loaded overnig...

The South Dakota Highway Patrol has released the identity of the man who died in a single-vehicle crash Thursday morning on U.S. Highway 85 near Spearfish. The victim has been identified as Eddie Lee ...

New data from the South Dakota Department of Health shows that families in the Bright Start Nurse Home Visiting program see significantly better early childhood health outcomes than the broader Medica...