This month’s graduating class of cadets is the most diverse, both in terms of background but also from outside Sioux Falls, that training officer Eric Engberg has seen in recent years.
pigeon605.com/how-sioux-fall…

State Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons program hosts awareness and training event Monday in Rapid City. atg.sd.gov/OurOffice/Medi…

A state board endorsed a rule change that would let Native American tribes access state #housing infrastructure funding.

But the change comes so late in the process that all the grants are already awarded and only loans remain. southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/05/03/rul…

Pro tip: always read Jared Strong on Iowa AG issues, but not during breakfast.
iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/05/02/bir…

The company that aims to place a massive jet fuel plant in Lake Preston told investors that updated guidance from the federal government on #biofuel carbon credits could be a boon to its prospects of success. #Gevo southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/05/02/com…

The first hint that something was wrong came from Tanya Richard's cats, which fled her property.

As it turned out, a 2-foot diameter #CarbonDioxidePipeline at a pump station about a half mile from her house had ruptured.

Via Verite: southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/05/02/a-s…

USPS moving forward with plans to downsize operations in eastern South Dakota

Postal Service bills over $12M investment as compromise on closure

Story: thedakotascout.com/p/usps-moving-…

The bill “will help our country close the book once and for all on the awful, harmful and failed war on drugs, which all too often has been nothing more than a war on Americans of color,” Sen. Chuck Schumer said.
Full story: newsfromthestates.com/article/us-sen…

Words + video from me (with help from my colleague Tyler Louder) on the 19-year-old member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe. Provost was pregnant when she was fatally shot keloland.com/news/local-new…

Ashton Provost's life, death and legacy keloland.com/news/local-new… from Dan Santella

USD employees told to remove tribal affiliations, pronouns from email signatures argusleader.com/story/news/edu…

“This has blown up in her face,” said Mike Card, a polisci prof at USD.

“I think it ends the campaign as it is.”

southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/04/30/cri…

“We know that electric vehicles and cold temperatures just don’t mix,” said Burgum, one of three members of the commission.
northdakotamonitor.com/2024/04/30/bur… via North Dakota Monitor

If you're in the cord-cutting boat and you missed this, here's the boss Seth Tupper talking Noem, a shot pup and political transformation on CNN
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Politics has taken us all to some strange places during the last several years. Today it took me onto CNN to talk about our governor shooting a dog.

Your lawyer may be using AI to help write legal briefs. That's fine with state supreme court's chief justice - as long as that lawyer is checking the machine's work for accuracy.
Here's more on AI and the law from him, and from USD's law school dean: southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/04/29/chi…

SDNA traces its roots to Huron in 1882 when area newspaper editors first met there. We returned last week for the 141st SDNA convention to learn, celebrate excellence and most importantly, connect and catch up with colleagues and friends from across the state.

“So many people are in need of basic shelter and there are people who are squatting intentionally to challenge private property as a legal and cultural institution,” stateline.org/2024/04/26/anx…

Congrats to our Makenzie Huber, winner of the 2023 Outstanding Young Journalist award from S.D. NewsMedia Association in the all-multi-day division. South Dakota Searchlight won 11 awards in the association's Better News Media contest. southdakotasearchlight.com/2024/04/27/sea…

#OTD in 1986, an accident at the #Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant forced communities to abandon settlements and agricultural land within the region. #Landsat images have captured the lasting impacts of the disaster. Learn more here: ow.ly/qxCL50Rpows