Thousands of miles of carbon dioxide pipelines planned in the Midwest have been spurred, in part, by a major expansion of federal tax credits in Democrats’ 2022 climate law.| South Dakota Searchlight
When ethanol plants turn corn into a gasoline additive, they produce two kinds of carbon dioxide emissions.| South Dakota Searchlight
Summit Carbon Solutions will reapply for a carbon dioxide pipeline permit after it identifies a new route that complies with county ordinances.| South Dakota Searchlight
Gov. Kristi Noem’s campaign promise to eliminate the state sales tax on groceries died Tuesday morning, but a committee approved a bill to reduce sales taxes across the board.| South Dakota Searchlight
A judge dismissed the lawsuit challenging an abortion-rights ballot measure, saying it should have targeted the Secretary of State’s Office.| South Dakota Searchlight
A new court fight over South Dakota’s abortion-rights ballot measure could hinge on a complicated answer to a simple question.| South Dakota Searchlight
South Dakota has an OB-GYN shortage and is a leading state for maternity care deserts. Physicians worry the state's abortion laws will exacerbate it.| South Dakota Searchlight
A repeat bank robber may have a shot at freedom after the South Dakota Board of Pardons and Paroles voted to recommend a commutation.| South Dakota Searchlight
Gov. Kristi Noem has granted a commutation to a convicted murderer that will allow him a shot at parole, but not for another eight years.| South Dakota Searchlight
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story about pardons is part of a special report on executive clemency. An additional story explores commutations, and a commentary outlines difficulties encountered in obtaining pardon records. — A father from Fort Pierre with five drunken driving convictions and more than a decade of sobriety wants to take his son hunting. A […]| South Dakota Searchlight
Gov. Kristi Noem has issued 12 sentence reductions – formally known as “commutations” – since she became governor in 2019.| South Dakota Searchlight
Nearly three weeks after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration proposed loosening a federal prohibition on marijuana, the next phases of policy fights over the drug’s status are starting to take shape.| South Dakota Searchlight
U.S. Sen. John Thune spent March criticizing Biden Administration trade policies and touting the importance of free trade to South Dakota and nation’s trade economy.| South Dakota Searchlight
A new analysis of a Nov. 5 ballot measure projects state revenue losses ranging from $134 million to $646 million annually.| South Dakota Searchlight
South Dakota lawmakers compromised to approve what some described as the largest tax cut in South Dakota history.| South Dakota Searchlight
The proliferation of cartel-sourced narcotics is evident in every U.S. state, including South Dakota's urban and rural enclaves.| South Dakota Searchlight
Federal health officials are encouraging farm workers who tend livestock and poultry to get vaccinated for seasonal influenza to help prevent a bird flu mutation.| South Dakota Searchlight
Bureau of Indian Affairs police recruits in South Dakota need a training facility closer to home, the state's junior senator says.| South Dakota Searchlight
Tribal leaders say Gov. Kristi Noem's talk of drug cartels leans on racist tropes to target their communities for a statewide problem.| South Dakota Searchlight
Yankton Sioux Tribe officials said Wednesday they know where the drugs on their tribal lands are coming from.| South Dakota Searchlight
A 155-year-old treaty is central to defining what law enforcement services the United States is obligated to provide to the Oglala Sioux Tribe. But questions still remain about what that entails and what it means for the rest of Indian Country.| South Dakota Searchlight
The state should ask for Lincoln County’s permission before building a new prison there, according to a lawsuit from a group of landowners.| South Dakota Searchlight
U.S. presidents enjoy full immunity from criminal charges for their official “core constitutional” acts, but no immunity for unofficial acts, the Supreme Court ruled.| South Dakota Searchlight
Jurors in New York state court found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.| South Dakota Searchlight
A new, permanent summer grocery program will help nearly 21 million kids across 37 states get enough to eat this year while school’s out. But 13 states with Republican governors have opted out of the federal program.| South Dakota Searchlight
The leader of the South Dakota Department of Corrections says she doesn’t want to answer to the state’s Corrections Commission.| South Dakota Searchlight
Lawmakers expressed frustration over the uncertain price tag for a proposed men’s prison in Lincoln County.| South Dakota Searchlight
The state Department of Corrections has yet to answer a series of questions on violent incidents at Mike Durfee State Prison in Springfield.| South Dakota Searchlight
The South Dakota DOC has suspended text and email services for inmates and their families after an incident tied to inmate tablet computers.| South Dakota Searchlight
CANTON — The notion that South Dakota needs county permission to build a prison is absurd, a lawyer representing the state DOC says.| South Dakota Searchlight
Organizers of the campaign to enshrine abortion rights in the South Dakota state constitution announced a new leader in the effort.| South Dakota Searchlight
A bill that would further define the "life of the pregnant female" exception for abortion in South Dakota has been tabled.| South Dakota Searchlight
It may seem illogical for John Thune to run for Senate Republican leader after he was booed by Republicans in his own state, but as he says, “these aren’t normal times.”| South Dakota Searchlight
Alan Welsh wasn’t just a cop. He got a legislative commemoration for an outstanding career. Now he grows marijuana for a living.| South Dakota Searchlight
Tribal members are divided over the value of banning Gov. Noem from reservations, but say state law enforcement isn't the answer.| South Dakota Searchlight
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe said its president "informed the governor that a ban from our territories is imminent."| South Dakota Searchlight
Gov. Kristi Noem leveled accusations against Native American parents and political leaders while saying she wants to help Native American students.| South Dakota Searchlight
Gov. Kristi Noem used a speech before a joint session of the South Dakota Legislature to call the U.S.-Mexico border a “war zone” controlled by drug cartels that also use South Dakota’s reservation communities as a home base for drug distribution.| South Dakota Searchlight
A virtual meeting of the South Dakota Corrections Commission drew calls for transparency and accountability on Thursday.| South Dakota Searchlight
A new state government video intended to clarify South Dakota’s abortion exception has not settled disputes over the language.| South Dakota Searchlight
An abortion rights amendment will remain on the ballot in South Dakota, but a lawsuit over petition signatures won't end before voting starts.| South Dakota Searchlight
After legal fights, counter-campaigns and bureaucratic wrangling, abortion questions in 10 states are heading to ballots in November.| South Dakota Searchlight
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has denied sentence reduction requests for two men serving time on theft charges.| South Dakota Searchlight
Just when we thought bipartisanship was dead in South Dakota, Democrats have joined Republicans in opposing Amendment H.| South Dakota Searchlight
Gov. Kristi Noem commuted the sentences of two people convicted of murder and issued 45 more pardons since February.| South Dakota Searchlight
The state’s legislative oversight committee on medical marijuana was thrust into the world of synthetic THC on Monday.| South Dakota Searchlight
Secretary of State Monae Johnson is now a defendant in a lawsuit over an abortion rights ballot measure in the state of South Dakota.| South Dakota Searchlight
