After going three years without a pay raise, South Dakota's 13,000 state employees should find out soon what, if any, kind of bonus they will get to compensate them for sticking it out through those lean years.
Unpaid child support owed by parents with children in South Dakota has jumped almost $20 million the past two years despite the state's reputation for being among the nation's best at collecting such payments.
BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. — The oil boom that has brought both wealth and woes to North Dakota is on its way to South Dakota — and experts say the state would be wise to prepare itself.
South Dakota lawmakers will soon decide the fate of a controversial state flag proposal. A House panel will vote on a bill sponsored by more than 80 lawmakers that would redesign South Dakota's flag with a colorful and geometric pattern.
After scraping by on handyman jobs for a year, Bert Qintana figured he'd have to leave his wife and teenage son at their home near Taos, N.M., and find work elsewhere.
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Medicaid program in Maine is short of money, and conservative Governor Paul LePage has a blunt proposal for solving the problem — drop people from the rolls.
