Morning Edition
Weekdays 5:00am - 9:00am Central, 4-8 MT
Morning Edition is your daily window to South Dakota and the world. With hosts and daily segments from SDPB, we bring you local insights and voices, covering what is happening and what matters to you, right here, in South Dakota.
For more than two decades, NPR's Morning Edition has prepared listeners for the day ahead with two hours of up-to-the-minute news, background analysis, commentary, and coverage of arts and sports. With nearly 13 million national listeners, Morning Edition draws public radio's largest audience.
Your Daily South Dakota Digest and Local Moment
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Today from SDPB - Grand Gateway trial results, hunger in Huron, and the next five years of rural health funding. -
A new book explores the history of America through the lens of evergreen trees. SDPB talks with Trent Preszler about the science of evergreens and the human cost of industrial excess. -
Today from SDPB - the latest on new charges brought in connection to overdose deaths within prison walls and a look at a federal discrimination trial happening this week. -
Thousands of people protested construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016. A new poetry collection takes readers inside a community, nearly 10 years later.
Morning Edition Nationwide
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Crime rates dropped across much of the U.S. in 2025. That was true for both property and violent crime. And it declined nearly everywhere: In big cities and small towns, and in red and blue states. -
AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. -
The Trump administration says it wants to establish a quota for next year to denaturalize up to 200 American citizens per month.
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The DOJ released more Epstein files, and some mentioned Trump, SCOTUS blocks Trump from deploying National Guard to Chicago, delayed report shows U.S. economy grew between July and September.
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Steve Inskeep and his brother, Bruce make a deep-fried Turkey while chatting about how their family celebrated the holidays.
