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Travel South Dakota’s Passport Program Seeing Success
Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan - South Dakota
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PIERRE — Travel South Dakota’s popular Passport Program continues to inspire exploration across the state, driving record engagement during its Double Points Week, coinciding with Forever 605 Day, and unveiling new patriotic-themed stops with the...
SD Future Funds To Support Education At South Dakota State Penitentiary
Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan - South Dakota
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PIERRE — Gov. Larry Rhoden and the South Dakota Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) have awarded approximately $1,518,000 in FY 26 Future Fund dollars to support skilled trades education and job training at the South Dakota State...
Nan Kelly elected new Sioux Falls School Board president
Sioux Falls Live - South Dakota
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July 15, 2025
Nan Kelly, who was recently elected to a third term on the Sioux Falls School Board, was selected president for the coming year on Monday night. She was also sworn in for her new three-year term, while newcomer Elizabeth Duffy, who won the other...
SEL Releases Annual Ranking Of Top States For Business & Trade
Pullman Radio - Washington State
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July 15, 2025
July 15, 2025 Evan Ellis News Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories based in Pullman has released its 2025 ranking of top states for business and trade. The 4th annual SEL Index of Freedom evaluates the business climate for all 50 states. The index...
Senate panel endorses billions for B-21s and millions for South Dakota construction, Rounds says
Mitchell Daily Republic - South Dakota
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July 15, 2025
Funding for the B-21 bomber program, construction money to support it at a base near Rapid City, and money for a Watertown National Guard vehicle maintenance building are wins for South Dakota in a new defense authorization bill, U.S. Sen. Mike...
Sioux Falls Is Losing Another Restaurant
B102.7 - South Dakota
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July 15, 2025
The Sioux Falls restaurant scene has taken another unexpected hit. Umami Cafe & Catering, which has been operating out of the kitchen at the Signature Flight Support building at the Sioux Falls Regional Airport, is closing its doors this Fall....
South Dakota closes fiscal year 2025 with $63M surplus
Black Hills FOX News - South Dakota
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July 15, 2025
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) -South Dakota has closed its fiscal year 2025 with an operating surplus of $63 million. The surplus includes $41 million in excess revenues and $22 million in spending below what was budgeted. Unclaimed property receipts...
South Dakota to Receive $1.5 Million in National Opioid Settlement, Attorney General Jackley Confirms
Kool 98 - South Dakota
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July 14, 2025
By Christal Blue July 14, 2025 11:57 am PIERRE, S.D. (MITCHELLNOW) South Dakota will get $1.5 million as part of a new national opioid settlement. Attorney General Marty Jackley says eight drug companies have agreed to a $720 million deal over...
South Dakota lawmakers express concerns over lab-grown meat and screwworm disease
KOTA Territory News - South Dakota
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July 15, 2025
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - Monday, the Best Western Ramkota Hotel Convention Center was filled with ranchers and farmers for the South Dakota Stockgrowers Association’s 134th Annual Convention. The event gives people the opportunity to learn about...
Gov. Rhoden Visits Rapid City on Open for Opportunity Tour
News Center 1 - South Dakota
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July 15, 2025
RAPID CITY, S.D.— Governor Larry Rhoden continuing his Open for Opportunity Tour Monday in Rapid City. Rhoden was highlighting businesses that support Rapid City's economy. First stop was Coca-Cola Bottling High Country. Rhoden had the opportunity...
How To Help Overcrowded Sioux Falls Animal Shelter Today
KXRB 1140 AM/100.1 FM - South Dakota
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July 14, 2025
Ordinarily when a business is full, that's a good thing. Sadly, that's not the case when the business in question is the Sioux Falls Area Humane Society. Urgent Plea The humane society has taken to social media to alert the community that they are...
South Dakota ag leaders question push to target farm workers for deportation
SDPB Radio - South Dakota
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July 14, 2025
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins says mass deportations of undocumented immigrants will be done everywhere, including farm country. She says the plan is to have a 100% American workforce. Rollins indicated that Medicaid work requirements may be able...
Wyoming financial planner ‘pausing’ TikTok deal he says would benefit South Dakota
Black Hills Pioneer - South Dakota
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PIERRE — Reid Rasner says he’s paused his efforts to purchase TikTok for $47.45 billion and possibly place some of its operations in South Dakota. South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden had thrown his support behind the bid from Rasner, a financial...
‘Owen’s Outfitters’ offering help and hope, moving to new location
Dakota News Now - South Dakota
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July 15, 2025
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - A Sioux Falls non-profit is making it easier for families to access essential medical equipment free of charge. Owen’s Outfitters collects and redistributes everything from bandages to hospital beds, giving...
SD Legislative Committee Finalizes Benefit Cut For Needy Families
Yankton Daily Press & Dakotan - South Dakota
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Starting in August, low-income South Dakota families participating in a welfare program will receive less money to spend on necessities such as gas, groceries, utilities and rent. The benefit cut is the beginning of more reductions planned in the...
Phyllis M. Stiefvater
GMToday - Wisconsin
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WEST BEND Phyllis M. Stiefvater July 24, 1939 — June 20, 2025 Phyllis M. Stiefvater (nee Krause) died peacefully on Monday, June 30, 2025, at Ivy Manor in West Bend. She was born July 24, 1939, in Tripp, South Dakota. She was one of seven...
Grave Errors at Rehab Hospitals Go Unpenalized
Medscape
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Rehab hospitals that help people recover from major surgeries and injuries have become a highly lucrative slice of the healthcare business. But federal data and inspection reports show that some run by the dominant company, Encompass Health Corp.,...
South Dakota ranks 47th in total VA home loans during Q1
Rushmore State News - South Dakota
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July 11, 2025
Denis R. McDonough Secretary of Veterans Affairs | BallotpediaDenis R. McDonough Secretary of Veterans Affairs | Ballotpedia South Dakota ranked 47th in the nation in VA home loans in the first quarter of 2025, with 449 loans issued, according to...
Sioux Falls man arrested for making bomb threat in Brookings
Go Watertown - South Dakota
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July 11, 2025
July 11, 2025 BROOKINGS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) – Authorities in Brookings arrested a Sioux Falls man for making a bomb threat against a local business. According to Brookings police, on Wednesday at around 3:35 p.m., the Starbucks located on 22nd...
Alaska legislators urge senators to reject cuts to public broadcasting
Fairbanks Daily News Miner - Alaska
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A bipartisan coalition of 23 Alaska state legislators is urging U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan to oppose a sweeping federal budget rescission package that includes eliminating $1.1 billion in funding for the Corporation for Public...