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Flock Safety’s Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPR) are operational in 49 states, including South Dakota, but the Mount Rushmore State has no laws on the books about surveillance cameras and privacy.

Several states do, however. Maine law restricts police use of traffic surveillance cameras for enforcement purposes and places strict limits on government use of facia...


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KEYSTONE, S.D. – Members of the Foley family of Green Bay, Wisconsin, are the quintessential visitors that tourism officials and operators hope will push South Dakota to a successful 2026 tourism season.

The family of four drove 12 hours from home for a weeklong tour of the Black Hills of South Dakota in late April and refused to let high gas prices, inflation or a soft...


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South Dakota executed prisoners via hanging and the electric chair until the state carried out its first lethal injection execution in 2007.

Five people have been executed via lethal injection since 2007, when Elijah Page was the first execution in almost 60 years. Page was convicted of the torture and murder of Chester Allan Poage in 2000. Briley Piper remains the o...


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Carson Walker, chief executive officer of South Dakota News Watch, was elected the 140th president of the South Dakota NewsMedia Association during the organization’s annual meeting on May 1 in Deadwood.

As News Watch CEO, Walker oversees news programming, fundraising and operations for the independent, nonprofit organization that prov...


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Next school year, about 141,000 students in South Dakota public schools may begin to see more conversations about substance use disorder – and how to prevent it – being had in their classrooms.

Emily’s Hope, a South Dakota-based nonprofit focused on substance abuse prevention, was recently awarded over half a million dollars from the state’s opioid settle...


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