Human Services Center Critical to Behavioral Health Care Statewide

The South Dakota Department of Social Services is making plans to limit patient capacity at the Human Services Center in Yankton at two hundred and open regional behavioral health treatment centers around the state.

Inflation Rising….Interest Rate Hikes Next?

The recent report on the US economy shows inflation rising to at least seven percent, with prices rises on everything from gas to groceries.

Northeast Nebraska in Line for Major Water Development Projects

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts announced a seven hundred-million-dollar water development plan this week.

No Funding for Missing Persons Coordinator

South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg told the State-Tribal Relations committee he doesn’t have the funding to staff a position to coordinate tribal, state, and local law enforcement in finding missing persons.

Environmental Groups Push Lawsuit on Dicamba

A group of environmental organizations led by the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity wants new…

Grassley Offers Bill to Support Year Round E15

Monday, the Supreme Court denied a hearing on year-round E15 sales.  Growth Energy had petitioned a review of a D.C.…

Concern Grows with Meat Processing Slowdown Due to COVID

Meat processors and union officials are reporting rising COVID-19 infections among workers are forcing meat plants to slow production and…

House Ag Committee Looks at Future of Electric Vehicles

The House Ag Committee held a hearing on Wednesday on the “Implications of Electric Vehicle Investments for Agriculture and Rural…

SD Legislature’s Budget Committee Not Repeating Hearings

The Joint Committee on Appropriations of the South Dakota legislature held several days of budget hearings before the official open of the 2022 session.

School Districts Talking Sports Cooperative

School boards in the Marion, Freeman Public and Freeman Academy districts have been talking about a possible sports cooperative.