All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 3 2017 // A construction company that was remodeling a historic downtown Sioux Falls, S.D., building when it collapsed and killed a worker willfully ignored precautions, federal workplace safety officials allege.The U.S....
Apr 26 2017 // The family of a BNSF Railway employee killed in an accident in western South Dakota is suing the railroad, alleging it failed to protect him from being hit by a train while he was clearing snow and ice from a track.The...
Apr 24 2017 // More than 25,000 turkeys have been killed in separate fires at farms in Iowa and South DakotaA fire at a turkey farm south of Wapello, Iowa, killed about 10,700 juvenile turkeys and caused about $300,000 in damages to the...
Apr 17 2017 // The number of speeding tickets issued by South Dakota state troopers has gone up since the state’s top speed limit increased from 75 mph to 80 mph nearly two years ago.An analysis of ticket data by the Argus Leader...
Apr 7 2017 // ABC Broadcasting has lost a last-ditch bid before South Dakota’s highest court to avoid a trial in a beef producer’s $5.7 billion defamation case over reports about a product that critics call “pink...
Mar 31 2017 // About 30 Esurance employees in Sioux Falls have lost their jobs as part of cuts within the insurance company. The Argus Leader reports that has Esurance cut 100 jobs, mostly in Sioux Falls and in two California locations....
Mar 27 2017 // The number of speeding tickets issued by South Dakota state troopers has gone up since the state’s top speed limit increased from 75 mph to 80 mph nearly two years ago.According to an analysis of ticket data by the...
Mar 23 2017 // The developer of the Dakota Access pipeline has reported “recent coordinated physical attacks” on the much-protested line, just as it’s almost ready to carry oil.Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners...
Mar 15 2017 // A South Dakota state judge has ordered ABC Broadcasting to face a potential $5.7 billion defamation lawsuit claiming it damaged Beef Products Inc. by referring in a series of reports to a meat product it sold as...
Feb 21 2017 // Crash fatalities are rising in many states but they’re going down in South Dakota. According to the National Safety Council, South Dakota had the fourth-lowest crash fatality rate in the country in 2016. Nationally,...
Feb 13 2017 // South Dakota lawmakers have rejected a bill that was meant to increase transparency in the state’s school choice scholarship program. The bill, voted down 9-6 in the House Education Committee, would have required...
Jan 30 2017 // A group of South Dakota lawmakers has introduced a bill that would require certain information from the state-subsidized insurance company tax credit program for scholarships be made public.The tax credit scholarship...
Jan 9 2017 // Conflicting insurance and business regulations passed by the South Dakota Legislature last year mean Sioux Falls won’t get Uber, Lyft or other ride-hailing services anytime soon, according to a state lawmaker.Rep....
Jan 9 2017 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 27 2016 // Travel conditions remained hazardous as a winter storm swept across much of the northern Great Plains, with blowing and drifting snow creating near-zero visibility on some roads.The combination of freezing rain, snow and...
Dec 22 2016 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Dec 13 2016 // Investigators say a broken rail was probably the cause of a fiery South Dakota train derailment in September 2015 that resulted in more than $1 million in damage.Seven cars of a BNSF Railway train derailed near the town of...
Dec 8 2016 // Government entities aren’t automatically blocked from releasing information such as the exact location of a crime to the public under a new victims’ rights constitutional amendment, Attorney General Marty...
Nov 28 2016 // South Dakota law enforcement authorities are no longer releasing vehicle crash information because doing so could violate a constitutional amendment approved by voters this month.The state’s Department of Public...
Nov 7 2016 // A man accused of starting two fires in Madison, S.D., has been ordered to serve 34 years in prison. Authorities say 25-year-old Travis Smith Jr. started fires in the apartment building where he lived and in a convenience...