South Dakota's efforts to attract new companies and help existing ones expand could be hurt by the public vote scheduled for November on a new business grant program, Gov. Dennis Daugaard said Thursday.
Gov. Dennis Daugaard and South Dakota legislative leaders, in three separate news conferences Thursday, celebrated Bel Brands USA's decision to build a new $100 million cheese manufacturing plant in Brookings that could ultimately employ 400 people.
A measure seeking to bar false advertising by pregnancy help centers that discourage abortions was rejected Thursday by a South Dakota House panel after abortion rights advocates and abortion opponents accused each other of misleading women.
North Dakota's oil boom brings with it tremendous wealth and enormous problems _ and both are coming to South Dakota, say organizers of a Thursday night event dubbed "Coming Down the Pipe."
State legislators will discuss a proposal to eliminate the rights of public employees to collectively bargain and the governor's education plan today during the Democratic Forum in Sioux Falls.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood hires lots of outside lawyers. They make a great deal of money for the state, and for themselves. Not everyone is happy with that situation.
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