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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Lawmakers plan to consider this week measures on municipal sales taxes, insurance coverage for Autism Spectrum Disorder therapy and athletics policy for transgender students. A measure to allow municipalities to collect up to an additional 1 percent sales tax for capital expenditures is set to be heard Friday in the House […]

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Native artists have a few weeks to apply for space at this summer’s art market and cultural celebration in downtown Rapid City. The third annual event called A Gathering of People, Wind and Water will be Saturday, July 18, at Main Street Square. The categories reflect the cultures of the […]

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Amid calls for more transparency, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Chairman Michael Jandreau is pushing back against allegations from a nonprofit group that leaders on the reservation misdirected millions of dollars in federal funding intended to help impoverished tribal members. Shortly after speaking at an event in the state Capitol on Thursday, […]

BROOKINGS, S.D. (AP) — Deputies in the Brookings County sheriff’s office are now equipped with body cameras they say will make their work more transparent. KSFY-TV reports ( ) the eastern South Dakota sheriff’s office is the latest law enforcement group to equip its officers with cameras. Deputy Shawn Hostler says the cameras hold law […]

STURGIS, S.D. (AP) — A campground in western South Dakota that houses a hoard of visitors during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally may soon be the state’s newest town. Meade County commissioners voted Friday to accept an incorporation petition for the Buffalo Chip Campground. The vote triggers a May 7 election where the area’s 50 registered […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A South Dakota-based telecommunications company is criticizing the Federal Communications Commission for its new rules aimed at regulating Internet service providers. KELO-TV reports ( ) that Midcontinent Communications says the FCC’s so-called net neutrality rules are “regulatory overreach.buy cymbalta online https://drugeriemarket.co.uk/wp-content/languages/new/britain/cymbalta.html no prescription “ The FCC voted Thursday to impose […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A judge has suspended a prison sentence for a Sioux Falls man who pleaded guilty to his role in a botched drug robbery that left one man dead. Judge Brad Zell sentenced Douglas Scholten to 30 years on Friday but suspended the entire sentence. He previously pleaded guilty to first-degree […]

ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — Federal and state officials will be hosting two prescribed fire training sessions this spring in the mixed grass prairies of eastern South Dakota. Participants will be instructed on how to safely implement prescribed burns. The interagency training will conduct a series of prescribed burns around Aberdeen, Huron, Madison and Waubay. The […]

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

TULALIP, Wash. (AP) — The Justice Department’s December announcement that it would allow the nation’s Indian tribes to legalize and regulate marijuana on their reservations brought notes of caution — if not silence or opposition — from many tribes. They were reluctant to consider it given the substance abuse problems that already plague many reservations. […]