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Senate Lawmakers have passed a resolution urging the President to pardon archeologist Pete L. Larson. Larson led a team that discovered a Tyrannosaurus…

An Appropriations subcommittee has adopted initial budget numbers for the FY15 and FY16 budget. The appropriations subcommittee has taken a conservative…

State Representatives passed a bill establishing nine river basin natural resource districts in South Dakota. Senate Bill Two also creates a task force to…

An effort to revise taxes and fees to fund improvements to public roads and bridges in South Dakota is still alive in the state legislature. Members of…

Lawmakers in Pierre are keeping pieces of legislation afloat until they have final funding numbers. That sometimes means they’re using stop-gap measures…

Expected revenues for the state budget are down from the Governor’s original projections in his 2016 budget address. Both the Legislative research council…

This is the last week of legislative session and lawmakers still have to vote on three very important measures. The legislature will take up road funding,…

South Dakota is kicking in nearly $8-million to spur completion of a portion of the Lewis and Clark Rural Water System. The system intends to supply water…

The House Appropriations Committee is considering a bill to pay an education company to evaluate textbooks and to make “living textbooks” available…

The state of South Dakota is owed money that it can’t collect. To address that problem, House Bill 1228 proposes to set up a state debt collection office.…