Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is following South Dakota's Governor Larry Rhoden and several other states in sacrificing road integrity with temporary weight-limit increases for farm vehicles. Walz also includes logging vehicles in the relief order. Walz matches Rhoden's 10% increase in allowed weight, which may not save farmers much money: ideally, a farmer (or a logger!) could make only 10 trips to town instead of 11, but each trip would use more fuel under the greater load.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has changed its rating of the Oahe Dam north of Pierre from "high risk" to "very high risk". But be chill—Bob Mercer reports this rating doesn't mean we have to evacuate the capital: The corps operates Oahe Dam and five other major dams on the Missouri River as part of its Omaha district.

Kristi Noem called it quits on her marriage back in April, but the divorce filing didn't go public until this week: Former South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has filed for divorce from her husband Bryon Noem, according to court records. Kristi Noem filed for divorce in Hamlin County on April 6 but the documents were not posted on online court service until Monday.

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Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

Major League Baseball “will not continue to evaluate Grand Teton National Park as a potential site,” for a game, Commissioner Robert Manfred told local officials in a letter Thursday.

The United States on Thursday urged European allies to release strategic diesel reserves immediately to curb prices driven higher by the US war on Iran. EU states will discuss a coordinated response…

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

The latest strike follows other attacks on the Southern Bridge on Oct. 1, where two Russian drones hit near the bridge's supports. This was the first time Russian drones have targeted one of the capit...

The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.

The fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent last January in Minneapolis set off a firestorm of protests around the U.S. Her family is speaking out for the first time.

The change is part of a Republican plan to make it more difficult to vote or outright disenfranchise a bloc of voters viewed as more inclined to vote Democratic, the DNC lawsuit argues.

The judge dismissed the case against David Hearn with prejudice, citing “exceptional circumstances” that included President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign on Pirro’s office.

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Senator Mike Rounds leads the Senate in spending taxpayer dollars on travel, says a new report in Axios: Rounds has always raised eyebrows with his predilection for flying. But here he is spending far more than his neighbor and Majority Leader John Thune, who spent only $70,000 on charter flights compared to Rounds's $625,000. The independent who'd like to take Rounds's job, Brian Bengs, wonders why Rounds doesn't come talk in front of all the people paying for those frequent flights:

Governor Larry Rhoden has often touted Trump policies as transforming rural health care. A new survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Associated Press finds that most rural voters see Trump policies making rural health care worse: More than half (54%) of rural voters disapprove of President Trump’s handling of health care, and views on the impact of his administration’s policies on areas like health care costs, Medicare, Medicaid, and the availability of health care are largely negative.

Taxpayers spent $6.7 million last year on the program, which reimburses lawmakers for food and lodging expenses in D.C., a Washington Post analysis found.

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...

I mentioned yesterday that Governor Larry Rhoden's order lifting weight limits for farm trucks by 10% will only damage South Dakota's roads. Orland farmer Charlie Johnson shares my concern that Rhoden is sacrificing infrastructure for a cheap reëlection ploy: Governor Rhoden today issued an executive order that trucks hauling grain during upcoming harvest can be 10 % over road weight limits.

South Dakota does not require students to study any language besides English to get a high school diploma, so revision of the K-12 world language standards doesn't draw any of the political sturm und drang that accompanied the revision of the social studies and math standards. Bob Mercer reports that, at the first public hearing on the proposed revision in Aberdeen Monday, the Board of Education Standards…

If you think doing your taxes is complicated, try navigating immigration law under the current regime, says Sioux Falls immigration attorney Taneeza Islam: “People oftentimes joke that tax law is very complicated because there’s new policies and procedures that come down every year,” Islam said. “Well, imagine that, but new policies and procedures are happening weekly. You know, and on top of that, we have litigation in a lot of the policies that this Administration has tried to implement but other entities are litigating.

Unable to formulate and execute real policies to reduce the national debt, Donald Trump claims economic growth will "very easily" solve the shortfall. John Tsitrian recognizes that airy wish as more Trump bullshit: Soon after the recent announcement that the U.S. national debt topped $40 trillion, President Trump was asked by reporters what he was going to do about it.

If you think prices are high now thanks to Trump, two South Dakota business honchos say you ain't seen nothin' yet: Inflation is affecting South Dakota businesses before it reaches consumers, and two executives say tariffs, artificial intelligence demand, high interest rates and a tight labor market are among the culprits. …Brian Gramm, CEO of construction company Journey Group, and Crystal Lail, chief financial officer of NorthWestern Energy, spoke Thursday at the Sioux Falls Metro Economic Briefing, fielding questions from South Dakota State University economics professor Joe Santos.

The farmers duped by Trump's promise to Make America White Again may take a double whammy on diesel prices. They get hit up front when they fill up their tractors and trucks to bring in this year's harvest. They may get another whack at the elevator when their grain shippers pay less for their crops to offset railroad fuel surcharges…

Diesel fuel prices zooming past six dollars a gallon have pushed farmers and truckers over the edge. Reports are full of those folks saying they now understand their support for Donald Trump a...

The scariest thing in an election season is a silent electorate. So think the folks at Kelly Family Homestead Farm up north of Crooks (46908 254th Street), who are mixing Halloween and democracy to scare up some informed and eager voters. Along with collaborators Full Circle Book Co-Op, Let Sioux Falls Vote, and Sioux Falls Underground, the Kelly Family Homestead is hosting "

While murderous tyrants used the United Nations as a platform for belittling their opponents as moral cowards and threatening them with annihilation, a Canadian computer science expert urged the world to work together to protect humanity from artificial intelligence. On Wednesday, September 23, Yoshua Bengio, professor of computer science at Université de Montréal and co-chair of the U.N. …

In this speech, Professor Yoshua Bengio addresses the UN Security Council to discuss the unprecedented threat posed by uncontrolled frontier AI. Humanity has summoned the courage and wisdom to manage ...