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Biden administration is slow to act as millions are booted off Medicaid, advocates say
WASHINGTON (AP) - Error-ridden state reviews have purged millions of the poorest Americans from the Medicaid program in recent months. Poverty experts are questioning if the Biden administration is do...
Jody Heemstra Nov 14, 2023 Free Dental Photos / CC
Wheat organizations welcome reopening of US-Mexico border rail crossings
DECEMBER 22, 2023: U.S. Wheat Associates and the National Association of Wheat Growers are pleased that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency reopened rail crossings in El Paso and Eagle Point...
Jody Heemstra Dec 22, 2023 Izumi LaCorte / Unsplash
Western Legacy Development Corporation receives positive response from public meetings
JULY 19, 2022: The CEO of Western Legacy Development Corporation says they received a warm welcome during public information meetings held recently in Wall (June 30, 2022) and Rapid City (July 11, 202...
Jody Heemstra Jul 19, 2022
2023 SDHSAA Girls Basketball Championship Results
AA SoDak 16 - Friday, March 3 (1)Sioux Falls Washington 53, (16)Sioux Falls Roosevelt 40 (2)Pierre 68, (15)Brookings 42 (3)O'Gorman 63, (14)Rapid City Central 26 (4)Sioux Falls Jefferson 57, (13)Aberd...
Mar 12, 2023
Smoke from distant fires expected to continue following weather patterns moving it in and out of South Dakota
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023: The past few months have seen air quality alerts being issued for areas across South Dakota where smoke from Canadian wildfires sporadically settles in. State Fire Meteorologist Dr....
Jody Heemstra Sep 08, 2023
Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) - Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed nightly in a frontline bunker in the...
Jody Heemstra Feb 27, 2023 Hamner_Fotos / CC
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum ends 2024 Republican presidential bid days before the fourth debate
DECEMBER 4, 2023: BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum has ended his 2024 Republican presidential bid. Burgum blames the Republican National Committee for arbitrary debate qualification...
Jody Heemstra Dec 04, 2023
Biden's second try at student loan cancellation moves forward with debate over the plan's details
OCTOBER 10, 2023: WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden's second attempt at student loan cancellation is moving forward as a group of negotiators meets to debate what a new proposal might look like. F...
Jody Heemstra Oct 10, 2023
2023 Budget Address, by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem
2023 Budget Address By: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem (Remarks as-prepared for delivery) December 5, 2023 INTRODUCTION Good afternoon, Lieutenant Governor Rhoden, Mr. Speaker, members of the House...
Jody Heemstra Dec 05, 2023
Fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
MARCH 28, 2024, UPDATE: NEW YORK (AP) - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for a cryptocurrency fraud that a prosecutor has described as one of the biggest financia...
Jody Heemstra Mar 28, 2024