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Sioux Falls One of Best Run Cities in the Country
Sioux Falls Makes Top 10 for "Best Run Cities" Great news for our city! Sioux Falls ranks in the Top 10 among "America's Best-Run Cities" according to a new study. Wallet Hub did a comprehensive 2025 study of 148 of the largest cities in the...

South Dakota Construction Workers Earn 13th Least in U.S.
The U.S. construction industry is navigating a period of heightened uncertainty in 2025, marked by shifting trade policies, restrictive immigration enforcement, and persistently high interest rates. New tariffs on imported steel and aluminum have...

South Dakota rabbi visited Israel shortly before Iran air strikes
Tensions are growing following Israel’s preemptive strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. Iran followed up with strikes of its own. South Dakota’s lone rabbi had just returned from a trip to Israel with state leaders shortly before the strikes. “I...
Governors’ report outlines how western states, territories could build more affordable housing
Western Governors Association Chair and New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham speaks during a news conference at the WGA 2025 Annual Meeting on June 23, 2025 in Santa Fe, while Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden, Wyoming...

South Dakota to receive millions as part of Purdue Pharma settlement
South Dakota is expected to receive more than $10 million as part of a settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, according to Attorney General Marty Jackley. The $7.4 billion settlement ends the litigation against the...

Sioux Falls mobile food market being put on pause Friday
After nearly two years of bringing affordable, healthy food directly to neighborhoods in need, the Eat Well Sioux Falls Mobile Market pilot program will be put on pause, its final stop on June 20, according to a June 16 press release from Sioux...

South Dakota Native Makes Big TV Return on 'Bachelor In Paradise'
A familiar South Dakota face is making a major television return on a popular dating show. Former South Dakota State Jackrabbit star Dale Moss is making his comeback on ABC's popular "Bachelor" series. But this time, Dale is looking for love in...

Who is the man who says he can move TikTok to South Dakota?
by John Hult, South Dakota Searchlight June 17, 2025 Excluding the money he loaned himself, Reid Rasner raised less than $35,000 for his failed attempt to unseat a U.S. senator last year. This year, the 41-year-old Wyoming Republican says he’s...

South Dakota receiving $10.1 million in national opioid settlement
June 17, 2025 PIERRE, S.D.–Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that South Dakota is expected to receive an estimated $10.1 million as its share of a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners. The agreement ends the litigation...

Heading to Texas in trying times
Is it all right to visit the United States right now? Writer and editor Stephen Davis investigates. I have always loved travelling to the United States. As The Sunday Times correspondent in Los Angeles in the late 1980s, I visited 48 of the 50...

2025 South Dakota Governor's Agricultural Summit highlights opportunities
RAPID CITY, S.D. — The 2025 South Dakota Governor’s Agricultural Summit kicked off Tuesday in Deadwood. The two-day event included an ag-economic market outlook, policy updates, industry tours, and producer recognition. In the face of challenges...

Sec. Burgum: The future of American energy and mining dominance lies out West
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said climate change is not an "existential threat." Burgum said western states can lead out on producing energy and critical minerals. Utah ranks No. 1 in mining and has done more to advance nuclear than any state,...

Alfredo Castellanos-Rosales Murder Trial: “I don’t kill nobody in my life.” Castellanos-Rosales claims innocence as he testifies in his own murder trial
Warning: The details discussed in this trial may be graphic and not suitable for all. ELK POINT, S.D. (KTIV) - The man facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of the mother of his youngest child addressed the court for the first time on...

Good News! Neighborhood South Dakota Bar Is Back in Business
A popular small-town South Dakota bar that was once closed is now open again. 212 The Boiling Point has been part of the Brandon, South Dakota, community for the last 17 years. But then, suddenly, in late March with no warning, the popular local...

UPDATE: Sioux Falls Bike Trail Closing Postponed
The three-week closure of a portion of the bike/recreational trail in Sioux Falls has been pushed back. One day after announcing the temporary closure of the trail from West 49th Street to the Sertoma Trail Bridge, the City now says the project...

What to expect from Sioux Falls' Juneteenth celebration on Saturday:
You’re officially invited to the cookout. Juneteenth Sioux Falls will hold a Juneteenth cookout from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. June 21 in downtown Sioux Falls at 212 East 11th Street, by Avera Health’s golden corporate office building and Fawick Park. The...

Highland Acres residents discuss multi-day power outage
BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - We don’t often think about how much we depend on electricity until we lose it. Electricity was something residents of Highland Acres thought a lot about this past weekend after severe weather caused many to lose power in...

South Dakota to receive $10.1 million as part of $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma
PIERRE — South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announced Monday that South Dakota is expected to receive an estimated $10.1 million as its share of a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family. The...

Eat Well Mobile Market closes, exploring sustainability options
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - For almost two years, the Eat Well Mobile Market has brought healthy and affordable groceries to neighborhoods throughout Sioux Falls. Originally, supporters say they were supposed to be open through June 20,...

Vance Kohl
Vance L. Kohl, 87, of the town of Eagle Point, died Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024, surrounded by family at Our House Senior Living, Chippewa Falls, and under the care of St. Croix Hospice. He was born Nov. 3, 1937, in Rock Rapids, Iowa, to Louis and...