Black Hills highway closure to upend summer holiday traffic

Motorists trying to cruise through the central Black Hills this summer will encounter a long detour because U.S. Highway 385 is closed.

Poll: Trump has sizable lead in South Dakota but shy of 2016 and 2020 numbers

Trump is at 50%, well ahead of President Biden’s 31% in the News Watch poll, while Robert Kennedy Jr. pulled in 11%.

Poll: Nearly half of South Dakotans have unfavorable view of Noem

“Some of the issues coming out of the book not only damaged her national ambitions, but they put a serious damper on any statewide ambitions she might have had.”

Timeline of Noem's book launch: 'They're attacking me like crazy'

The national profile of the second-term Republican governor has certainly been raised, but even usually friendly conservative media outlooks took her to task.

High school graduate eyes child care career path in South Dakota

If the shortage of providers is going to change, it will require a lot of people like Cordelia Rieck, who has chosen to pursue the career her mother started 20 years ago.

US Senate confirms Theeler, Schulte as federal district judges

Camela Theeler will be assigned to the Western Division in Rapid City, while Eric Schulte will work the Central Division in Pierre.

US Postal Service pauses downgrade of South Dakota mail operations

The original Sioux Falls plan, finalized April 30 by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, involved shifting non-local mail operations in South Dakota’s largest city to a facility in Omaha, Nebraska.
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