Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will complete a rare presidential run though all 50 states when he delivers the commencement address at a South Dakota community college next month. Amid much speculation over when he’d finally make it to South Dakota, Obama used an interview on Monday with KSFY, the ABC-affiliated TV station in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will complete a rare presidential run though all 50 states when he delivers the commencement address at a South Dakota community college next month. Amid much speculation over when he’d finally make it to South Dakota, Obama used an interview on Monday with KSFY, the ABC-affiliated TV station in […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — An art exhibit featuring baby boomers from Sioux Falls is set to open Saturday at the Washington Pavilion. KELO-TV ( ) reports that the exhibit showcases portraits of various Sioux Falls residents who were born between 1946 and 1964. It’s inspired by a national boomer list put together by the […]

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 […]