All the headlines from our South Dakota Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 17 2020 // Townships in South Dakota are facing economic difficulties as 2019 flood repair costs mount.Townships primarily depend on their taxpayers for funds to repair more than 31,000 miles (50,000 kilometers) of roads while they...
Jan 14 2020 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to stable from positive and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B+ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “bbb-” of Missouri Valley Mutual Insurance Co....
Jan 14 2020 // A school district in South Dakota has agreed to pay $65,000 to settle a sexual discrimination lawsuit brought by a former honor student who said her high school principal punished her for using a phrase her male peers used...
Jan 2 2020 // Three people were hurt in an explosion at a South Dakota petroleum distributor on Dec. 30, the company’s co-owner said.The explosion happened around 2 p.m. in the truck maintenance shop of Harms Oil just west of...
Dec 18 2019 // A construction company was sentenced to a year of probation in the death of a worker during a 2016 building collapse in downtown Sioux Falls.U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier ordered Hultgren Construction to serve a year...
Dec 2 2019 // South Dakota has lost an appeal for federal funding to rebuild from tornadoes and floods that hit six counties in August.The Federal Emergency Management Agency ruled that the damage was not severe enough to qualify for...
Nov 19 2019 // A South Dakota neurosurgeon made millions of dollars by performing unnecessary and dangerous surgeries, including one that left a patient partially paralyzed, federal prosecutors contend in a lawsuit against the doctor.Dr....
Nov 1 2019 // TC Energy’s Keystone pipeline leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (1.4 million liters) of oil in northeastern North Dakota, state regulators said Thursday.Crews on Tuesday, Oct. 29 shut down the pipeline that carries...
Nov 1 2019 // South Dakota-based Sanford Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, has agreed to pay more than $20 million to resolve kickback allegations stemming from a whistleblower lawsuit filed by two Sanford...
Nov 1 2019 // Gov. Kristi Noem is requesting a presidential disaster declaration for the damage caused by tornadoes and floods that struck southeastern South Dakota in September.Noem made her request in a letter to President Donald...
Sep 30 2019 // State regulators will ask the Legislature to require bigger financial guarantees for oil and gas wells in response to a failed 40-well natural gas project in northwest South Dakota.Under current state law, drillers of...
Sep 19 2019 // Landowners in South Dakota have received over $700,000 in a lawsuit accusing a federal agency of burning their properties in an April 2013 prescribed fire that blazed out of control, destroying more than 10,000 acres.The...
Sep 13 2019 // When the warning sounded shortly before midnight that a tornado could be approaching, the clock turned into a stopwatch for staff members working the night shift at a behavioral health center at a Sioux Falls...
Sep 12 2019 // Severe weather, including a probable tornado, struck South Dakota’s largest city late on Tuesday, leaving a trail of damaged buildings, downed power lines, fallen trees and some reports of injuries, officials...
Sep 4 2019 // An August survey of business supply managers suggested slow or no economic growth over the next several months in nine Midwest and Plains states, in part because of trade skirmishes, according to a newly released...
May 23 2019 // A federal judge in South Dakota has dismissed part of a lawsuit filed by a couple who had to tear down their Sioux Falls house after a long-running dispute with their neighbors.Judge Roberto Lange recently granted Liberty...
May 2 2019 // Chicago-based global insurance brokerage, Hub International Limited (Hub), has acquired the assets of First Western Insurance Agency Inc. in South Dakota.First Western Insurance Agency is an independent insurance agency...
Apr 30 2019 // The Missouri River used to be out of control. “It cuts corners, runs around at nights, fills itself with snags and traveling sandbars, lunches on levees, and swallows islands and small villages for dessert,” is...
Apr 12 2019 // There will be no horse racing this year at South Dakota tracks for the first time in decades.Aberdeen American News reports that Northeast Area Horse Racing announced Tuesday that the Aberdeen track will not host races in...
Apr 12 2019 // A storm system known as a “bomb cyclone” slowly churned through the U.S. interior Thursday for the second time in a month, unleashing a blizzard that struck the Upper Midwest and creating hazardous fire...