All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 3 2011 // Agriculture and manufacturing have spurred the South Dakota economy to moderate prosperity in the backwash of the national recession.Gains on the farm and in some factories have offset soft times in housing and the...
Sep 23 2011 // State and federal officials are cautioning South Dakota flood victims that time might be running out to file flood insurance claims. Normally, claims for flood damage under policies underwritten by the National Flood...
Jul 18 2011 // South Dakota has joined the Non-Admitted Insurance Multi-State Agreement (NIMA) coalition. Insurance Director Merle Scheiber signed the agreement on behalf of South Dakota, which collected nearly $29 million in excess and...
Jun 30 2011 // South Dakota Sen. John Thune has asked the Federal Emergency Management Agency to clarify how the National Flood Insurance Program applies to the current flooding along the Missouri River.FEMA has determined that the flood...
Jun 20 2011 // Insurers must provide full coverage for personal property that’s been moved because of the threat of flooding on the Missouri River, South Dakota insurance regulators have determined. Insurance Director Merle...
Mar 7 2011 // A bill aimed at changing South Dakota’s insurance law to give some injured people a better chance of receiving full compensation for their losses has been rejected by a state Senate panel. However, one of the...
Mar 4 2011 // A federal judge has refused to expand a lawsuit beyond the seven people who are suing a South Dakota urology clinic and its owners.The plaintiffs sought to make it a class action suit representing more than 6,000 patients....
Feb 27 2011 // A measure aimed at changing South Dakota’s insurance law to give some injured people a better chance of receiving full compensation for their losses has been rejected by a state Senate committee.However, one of the...
Feb 9 2011 // Recent high-profile accident cases have put a regulatory spotlight on grain elevators. Speakers at the North Dakota Grain Dealers Association annual meeting in Fargo talked about a range of financial perils elevators must...
Feb 2 2011 // The economy is gaining strength in nine Midwest and Plains states because global growth and continued low interest rates have provided a boost to agriculture and energy businesses, according to a new survey released Feb....
Jan 6 2011 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Adam Hamm says auto insurance premiums paid by drivers in the Dakotas remain among the lowest in the nation. Hamm cites a new report issued by the National Association of Insurance...
Dec 1 2010 // A lack of equipment and personnel has left TransCanada unprepared to deal with a major spill of crude oil on its Keystone pipeline system, according to a report by a nonprofit environmental group.The 60-page report from...
Nov 23 2010 // The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports South Dakota’s preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for October 2010 was 4.5 percent, a slight increase from the September 2010 rate of 4.4 percent.“The...
Sep 20 2010 // A flood-control project in the works for more than 20 years should be completed next year, removing 1,500 properties from Sioux Falls, S.D.’s flood plain, a city official said.Once the flood-control measures are in...
Sep 7 2010 // A flood-control project in the works for more than 20 years should be completed next year, removing 1,500 properties from Sioux Falls’ flood plain, a city official said.Once the flood-control measures are in place,...
Aug 19 2010 // A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that a South Dakota couple filed against the U.S. Forest Service over two disabled gold mines in the Black Hills. Arron and Judy Marston said the Forest Service illegally...
Aug 3 2010 // The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions.The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same...
Jun 1 2010 // The May Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region advanced for a sixth straight month, pointing to a growing economy in the months ahead, according to the May Business Conditions survey of supply managers in the...
May 20 2010 // South Dakota Insurance Division Director Merle Scheiber has ordered a company offering medical benefits insurance plans in the state to stop the practice.A temporary cease and desist order has been issued against Real...
Apr 22 2010 // Eric Castaneira, who went to prison in for kidnapping an executive at South Dakota-based Midland National Life Insurance Co. in 1991, has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $500,000 from the company, plus punitive damages...