Search Results
House amends overall tax reduction bill eliminating sunset date
MARCH 1, 2023: South Dakota legislators and Governor Kristi Noem are engaged in a back and forth contest over tax cuts. The Governor is pushing for the elimination of state's portion of the sales tax ...
Jody Heemstra Mar 01, 2023 Sanjoy Ghosh / CC
2021 SDHSAA State AA Track & Field Results
STURGIS - Brandon Valley and O'Gorman finished tied for the girls title and Sioux Falls Lincoln won its fifth straight boys title Saturday at the State AA Track & Field Meet at Woodle Field. The g...
May 30, 2021
Noem signs "Help not Harm" bill prohibiting gender changing medical procedures on minors; ACLU says "this fight is not over"
FEBRUARY 13, 2023: South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has signed HB 1080 into law. The bill prohibits medical providers from giving gender-affirming health care procedures and medications to transgende...
Jody Heemstra Feb 14, 2023
America's nonreligious are a growing, diverse phenomenon. They really don't like organized religion
OCTOBER 6, 2023: UNDATED (AP)- Ask Americans what their religion is, and nearly 1 in 3 say this -- none. That's according to the U.S. adults surveyed by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Aff...
Jody Heemstra Oct 06, 2023 Jamie / CC
SDHSAA State Class B Wrestling Dual Championships
The Watertown Civic Arena in Watertown hosted the 2024 SDHSAA state Class B team duals championships on Saturday February 10, 2024. Class B Quarterfinals Custer defeated Winner 36-33 Philip/Kadoka Are...
Jody Heemstra Feb 11, 2024
Farm Bill Doubtful to Override California's Prop 12
JULY 7, 2023: Farmers and ranchers are slightly more optimistic that Congress will get a new farm bill passed this year. However, Successful Farming says they don't think the farm bill will get used t...
Jody Heemstra Jul 07, 2023 DonkeyHotey / CC
Indiana doctor reprimanded, fined $3,000 for talking publicly about Ohio 10-year-old's abortion
MAY 26, 2023, UPDATE: INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - An Indiana board has decided to reprimand an Indianapolis doctor after finding that she violated patient privacy laws by talking publicly about providing an a...
Jody Heemstra May 26, 2023 Clyde Robinson / CC
National Wheat Organizations disappointed by approval of CP-KCS rail merger
MARCH 17, 2023: U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) and the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) are disappointed that the Surface Transportation Board (STB) has approved the Canadian Pacific Railway'...
Jody Heemstra Mar 17, 2023
Judge rejects Zooey Zephyr bid to return to Montana House
MAY 2, 2023: HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the transgender Montana lawmaker who was silenced after telling Republicans they would have blood on their hands for opposing gender-affirming heal...
Jody Heemstra May 03, 2023
Military finishes recovering Chinese balloon debris
FEBRUARY 17, 2023: WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. has finished efforts to recover the remnants of the large balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina, and analysis of the debris so far re...
Jody Heemstra Feb 17, 2023