The Fort Randall Dam flooded over 34 square miles of Yankton Sioux reservation land and forced 136 Indian families off their home land. Now a…
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U.S. Highway 81 just south of Arlington is open again. After spending $8.3 million on what we’d hoped would be a $4-million project (but hey,…
South Dakota Public Broadcasting buries the lead in Joshua Haiar’s story of the merger of the Upper Big Sioux Watershed Project into the Northeast Glacial Lakes…
South Dakota School of Mines chemical environmental scientist Dr. Maryam Amouamouha may have South Dakota’s next big thing: a water filter that replaces septic systems! Dr.…
In another dose of denial about agriculture’s harmful impacts on the environment, the Brown County Commission deflects concerns raised by a constituent about agriculture polluting…
Socialism will keep Madison wet. We taxpayers will grace Halme Construction of Lake Norden with $16.5 million to lay 16 miles of 16-inch PVC pipe to…
In her 2016 master’s thesis research, South Dakota State University biologist conducted the first statewide assessment of South Dakota’s freshwater mussel population. Faltys’s team found…
One of the biggest single spending bills in the hopper comes before Senate State Affairs on Friday. Senate Bill 62 proposes giving the Board of Water…
My friend Marvin Kammerer from Meade Count has some questions about the Superfund site known as Ellsworth Air Force Base. Specifically, he wants to know…
The Department of Agriculture (and Natural Resources) updated Joint Appropriations yesterday on its effort to recruit landowners to convert 3,000 more acres of streamside cropland and…