All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 13 2021 // Experts from Montana Technological University will soon begin to analyze what lies underground in Black Hawk, S.D., neighborhood where homes have been evacuated because ground over an abandoned mine collapsed.A law firm...
Mar 31 2021 // Firefighters have begun to gain control of wildfires in the Black Hills of South Dakota that have forced the evacuation of more than 400 homes and closed the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.Three separate wildfires were...
Mar 30 2021 // Three separate wildfires in the Black Hills of South Dakota have forced evacuations of more than 400 homes northwest of Rapid City and shut down Mount Rushmore, authorities said.A fire that started near Schroeder Road in...
Mar 14 2021 // South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg pleaded not guilty in an initial court hearing for three misdemeanor charges he is facing for striking and killing a man with his car last summer.The Republican attorney...
Mar 12 2021 // South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s push to scale back a voter-approved measure to legalize medical marijuana was left clinging to life on March 10 after Republican senators defied her.The issue of implementing a medical...
Feb 25 2021 // Investigators questioning South Dakota’s attorney general after a fatal car crash pressed him on how he did not realize he had struck a man and whether he had been reading email and checking news sites on his phone...
Feb 11 2021 // South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem promised she will honor the will of voters to legalize pot for medical use, just not this year.The Republican governor announced a plan to delay legalization of medical marijuana until July 1,...
Feb 9 2021 // A South Dakota judge on Feb. 8 struck down a voter-approved constitutional amendment that legalized recreational marijuana after Gov. Kristi Noem’s administration challenged it.Circuit Judge Christina Klinger ruled...
Jan 11 2021 // South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has issued an executive order to officially direct a lawsuit challenging a voter-approved constitutional amendment to legalize recreational marijuana.The order ensures that Highway Patrol...
Jan 8 2021 // The South Dakota State Bar Association is advising attorneys against providing legal services to businesses seeking to produce or sell marijuana in the state.South Dakota voters approved legalizing both recreational and...
Dec 9 2020 // After operating without incident for five years, a Sturgis gun store has been burglarized for the second time in two months.Sturgis Guns was broken into at 4:21 a.m. on Dec. 6, according to a police news release....
Nov 25 2020 // Two South Dakota law enforcement officials want the courts to overturn a citizen-approved constitutional amendment legalizing marijuana in the state.The Argus Leader reports Pennington County Sheriff Kevin Thom and South...
Nov 4 2020 // South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg was distracted before he drove onto a highway shoulder where he struck and killed a pedestrian in September, state Secretary of Public Safety Craig Price said on Nov. 2.Price...
Nov 2 2020 // Minnesota-based Medtronic has agreed to pay $9.2 million to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to a South Dakota neurosurgeon and failed to accurately report them, the Department of Justice has announced.The...
Oct 30 2020 // The Douglas School District in Box Elder, S.D., will pay a former district employee $50,000 to settle a lawsuit filed in February 2019, representatives from both sides said on Oct. 27.Patrick Ealy said he was wrongly...
Sep 18 2020 // A federal judge has approved legal settlements totaling $440,000 for people in South Dakota who were subjected to forced catheterizations to check for drug use.U.S. District Judge Roberto Lange ruled in April that police...
Sep 16 2020 // South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg said in a statement late on Sept. 14 that he realized he had struck and killed a man walking along a rural stretch of highway only after returning to the scene the next day and...
Sep 11 2020 // The South Dakota Division of Insurance is terminating its program of allowing temporary insurance producer licenses.The division issued a bulletin in April that outlined grounds for the issuance of temporary insurance...
Sep 8 2020 // South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has dismissed as “fiction” a recent study published by San Diego State University that ties the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in August to a massive surge in COVID-19 cases and...
Aug 25 2020 // The hundreds of thousands of bikers who attended the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may have departed western South Dakota, but public health departments in multiple states are trying to measure how much and how quickly the...