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siouxfallslive.com | Barry Amundson
Sioux Falls School Board members discussed on Monday the new cell phone policy for the district that bans use in academic classrooms by adding a new restriction. Instead of allowing high school students to use their phones during the hallway breaks that are usually about seven minutes, they decided to have students put their phones away during those times, too. They can only be used during their lunch break and before and after the school day ends.
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5 days ago |
siouxfallslive.com | Barry Amundson
The newest addition to the Great Plains Zoo & Aquarium in Sioux Falls was hiding in the rocks with mom and dad close by on Friday six weeks after it was hatched. It’s a fluffy gray chick that is starting to pop out for zoo visitors to occasionally see in the Humboldt penguin colony. The baby is the 14th member of the exhibit which features the bird native to the South American coasts mostly off Peru and Chile.
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1 week ago |
siouxfallslive.com | Trent Singer |Barry Amundson
When the South Dakota Department of Corrections announced the site where it hoped to build a 1,500-bed men’s prison in 2023, it told the public it was the only usable site available. The state had sent a request for information months earlier, hoping someone would offer up land for the project. No one who was willing to sell had exactly what the state was after, Corrections Secretary Kellie Wasko said .
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1 week ago |
siouxfallslive.com | Trent Singer |Barry Amundson
An environmental organization and a Native American advocacy group say two important Black Hills cultural and historical sites face threats from exploratory drilling projects. One of the projects is proposed by Rapid City-based Pete Lien and Sons. It wants to conduct exploratory drilling for graphite on national forest land near Pe’ Sla, also known as Reynolds Prairie, which is a high-elevation meadow in the central Black Hills.
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1 week ago |
siouxfallslive.com | Trent Singer |Barry Amundson
South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden announced Friday he’s seeking nominations for a new lawmaker to represent District 1 in northeastern South Dakota after Rep. Chris Reder, R-Warner, resigned Thursday. District 1 includes areas in Brown, Day, Marshall and Roberts counties. Reder was elected to his first term last November and served during the 2025 legislative session. He is a Navy veteran and sat on the House Military and Veterans Affairs, Taxation and Transportation committees.
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