March 2015

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed a controversial measure to exempt South Dakota’s youngest workers from the $8.50 minimum wage voters approved in November. Daugaard weighed his decision before signing the measure Friday to carve out a $7.50 youth minimum wage. The governor said previously he wouldn’t support a “direct attack” on […]

VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — A $4.2 million building in southeast South Dakota that’s meant to host technology companies is looking for tenants after the facility’s managers sued a company that backed off a deal to move in. The Vermillion Area Chamber & Development Company is responsible for the 32,000-square-foot facility in the outskirts of Vermillion. […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — South Dakota feedlots with capacities of 1,000 or more animals reported 235,000 cattle on feed on March 1, up 7 percent from last year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its latest report that placements in feedlots during February totaled 41,000 head, up 5 percent from 2014. Marketings of […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — A senior from Watertown High School won the state’s Poetry Out Loud competition and is headed to Washington, D.C., to represent South Dakota in national competition April 27-29. Ashley Brage won $200 and her school will receive $500 to be used for poetry books, in addition to her trip to the […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — These South Dakota lotteries were drawn Friday:

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed a controversial Republican-backed measure to exempt South Dakota’s youngest workers from the $8.50 minimum wage voters approved in November, but has vetoed three obscure tax proposals that passed with mostly strong support. Daugaard acted on the last bills from the 2015 session on Friday. He signed […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has vetoed a measure to help determine whether South Dakota’s property tax burden is a barrier to entry for businesses looking to offer affordable housing rentals. Daugaard vetoed the bill Friday. It would have created a new property classification for leased residential property. Republican Sen. Deb Peters says […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has vetoed a measure that would have slightly reduced the amount of tax burden on rural electric companies. Daugaard vetoed the bill Friday. He explained in a letter that the exemption would have given special preference to a specific type of business, eroding the foundation of South Dakota’s […]

VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) — Campus police at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion say they are investigating a report of a sexual assault at a residence hall. Authorities on Friday said the assault allegedly happened Wednesday in the Coyote Village dorm. Pete Jensen is director of the University Police Department. Jensen says the case […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Organizers of the annual Lakota Nation Invitational basketball tournament will keep it in Rapid City this year. The tournament’s board of directors had been entertaining offers from other potential host sites due to racial tensions in Rapid City. KEVN-TV reports ( ) that Board President Chuck Wilson has issued a […]