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Local school districts are beginning to set their budgets for the coming academic year. However, there are new challenges as COVID-era funding moves further into the past and a new crop of legislators leave their fingerprints on law.

Mitchell mayor Jordan Hanson addressed many topics in his State of the City Address. But one theme stuck out — a focus on growth.

Drought conditions are persisting across South Dakota.

The Rapid City Police Department is investigating the death of a man in a makeshift encampment under the I-190 bridge as a homicide.

The South Dakota Supreme Court is considering a case involving an issue frequently in the news lately — eminent domain. However, this case doesn’t involve carbon pipelines

Over the weekend, Lakota artist Marty Two Bulls Jr. led an engagement to cleanse the Sanford Underground Research Facility. The sprawling underground laboratory was once home to the Homestake Mine in the northern Black Hills, which produced over 40 million ounces of gold.

Gov. Larry Rhoden vetoes a bill changing the petition gathering process for constitutional amendments.

Though the South Dakota Legislature balked at committing additional funds for a new men’s prison, the battle is far from over. Now, a lawsuit is before the state Supreme Court pitting the state against residents near the proposed site.

Although Canada has not yet put a tariff on American corn, some worry if it will be included in the next round of retaliatory tariffs.The country is laying out all options. Some of South Dakota’s top exports to Canada are on the chopping block.

South Dakota Mines hasn’t hosted a speech team in a half-century, but its legacy is living on through a new tournament.