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The doctor can’t see you now
Deseret News - Utah
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August 24, 2025
Three years ago, Lost Rivers Medical Center opened a day care. It was temporary at first, a result of petitions from employees who couldn’t find any other child care options in Arco, Idaho, population 879. The original arrangement could only host...
AP News: Another gold rush could bring open pit mines to South Dakota's Black Hills
EdGlenToday - Illinois
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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A gold rush brought settlers to South Dakota's Black Hills roughly 150 years ago, chasing the dream of wealth and displacing Native Americans in the process. Now, a new crop of miners driven by gold prices at more than...
Competing in a global market
Prairie Pioneer - South Dakota
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August 20, 2025
Big Update I joined Rep. Adrian Smith of Nebraska on a panel at the Midwest Ag Export Summit in Sioux Falls to discuss how Midwest agricultural producers compete in a global market. I’m encouraged by the work the administration has done on...
Majority Leader Thune talks potential US-China trade deal, foreign trade
KOTA Territory News - South Dakota
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August 21, 2025
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) -Senate Majority Leader John Thune has weighed in on a potential U.S.-China trade deal as harvest approaches for soybean farmers. Harvest is about a month out for soybean farmers in South Dakota. With about 60 percent of...
Trade mission to UK, Ireland aims to capitalize on recently opened markets | Aug 19
SDPB Radio - South Dakota
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See the audio attached above to listen to the full news update/podcast. Each day, SDPB brings you statewide news coverage. We then compile those stories into a daily podcast. Subscribe on Apple On today's update... Gov. Larry Rhoden is leading a...
Campbell County Bank to acquire Hosmer location
Prairie Pioneer - South Dakota
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August 20, 2025
Campbell County Bank is in the process of adding another area institution to its holdings. A legal notice published in the Prairie Pioneer states Campbell County Bank “has made application to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for written...
NorthWestern Energy to seek new capital resources in South Dakota
Markets Insider
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NorthWestern Energy (NWE) Public Service Corporation d/b/a NorthWestern Energy Group will issue an all-source capacity request for proposals, RFP, on Aug. 15, 2025, for its South Dakota electric system. The capacity resource RFP is focused on...
Tariffs, trade get top billing during Dakotafest federal policy talk
Agweek - North Dakota
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August 21, 2025
MITCHELL — The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture didn’t make it to Mitchell after all on Wednesday but the South Dakota’s congressional delegation still spoke to a full house of nearly 250 people during their annual ag policy forum at Dakotafest....
Heartland Cuisine: Huron Farmers' Market
The Huron Daily Plainsman - South Dakota
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By Plainsman Staff In 2004, South Dakota State University Extension Service offered a workshop on farmers’ markets. The purpose of the workshop was to provide those attending with information on how to start a farmers’ market, and how to improve...
Black Hills Corp and NorthWestern Energy to merge into one electric and gas company
Dakota News Now - South Dakota
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August 20, 2025
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) Black Hills and NorthWestern energy groups announced a merger to create a premier regional electric and natural gas company in South Dakota. The merger was announced on Wednesday with a goal of collaborating for...
Sioux Falls metro interstate projects still in full swing, but some getting close to completion
Sioux Falls Live - South Dakota
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August 15, 2025
SIOUX FALLS – South Dakota Department of Transportation’s heavy project workload in the Sioux Falls area is still in full swing, but a few should be wrapping up in a few weeks or early in September. Others are making progress and at least one may...
PEMA hires State College company to review Pennsylvania's response to July's statewide 911 outage
WPSU - Pennsylvania
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August 20, 2025
CORRECTION, August 21 @ 5:20 p.m.: An earlier version of this story stated PEMA hired 911 Authority to investigate the cause of the 911 outage. PEMA officials say they're only hiring the private company to review the state's response to the...
Religious propaganda in South Dakota, vaccine woes: Your letters
Argus Leader - South Dakota
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Your letters to the editor for Aug. 17, 2025: In South Dakota, century-old creationist ‘Monkey Trial’ is still relevant Today, almost exactly a century after the infamous Scopes “Monkey” Trial in July 1925, many conservative American Christians...
No. 22 Iowa State opens season by defeating No. 17 Kansas State 24-21
KENS - Texas
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August 23, 2025
The Cyclones saw their third straight against their Farmageddon rival. DUBLIN, Ireland — It was a game anticipated by many for months. When it was all set and done, the Cyclones came out on top. No. 22 Iowa State took care of business in the Aer...
One-Third of U.S. Businesses Plan Price Hikes by Year-End
WHP 580 - Pennsylvania
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Nearly one-third of U.S. businesses plan to raise prices by the end of 2025, according to a new report from LendingTree. The survey revealed that over 30 percent of businesses expect price increases within six months, while only five percent...
Sioux Falls Little League team shines in Williamsport
Dakota News Now - South Dakota
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August 15, 2025
WILLIAMSPORT, P.A. (Dakota News Now) - The Sioux Falls Little League team is letting it all soak in on Friday as they move on to the next round in the Little League World Series. In four out of the last eight years, Sioux Falls has represented the...
Another gold rush is reopening mines in South Dakota
The Independent
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August 17, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Another gold rush could bring open pit mines to South Dakota's Black Hills
WSBTV - Georgia
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August 17, 2025
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — (AP) — A gold rush brought settlers to South Dakota's Black Hills roughly 150 years ago, chasing the dream of wealth and displacing Native Americans in the process. Now, a new crop of miners driven by gold prices at more than...
BKH, NWE to Form Company With $15.4B Enterprise Value
Rigzone
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August 20, 2025
Black Hills Corp (NYSE: BKH) and NorthWestern Energy Group Inc (Nasdaq: NWE) have announced in a joint statement that each company’s board of directors has unanimously approved a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock, tax-free merger....
Soybean farmers warn they "cannot survive" China trade war
Farmers' Advance - Michigan
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Bloomberg’s Isis Almeida reported Tuesday that “U.S. soybean farmers are near a ‘trade and financial precipice’ and cannot survive a prolonged trade war with China. That’s the warning from Caleb Ragland, president of the American Soybean...