South Dakota News Watch

South Dakota News Watch

Established in 2017, South Dakota News Watch is a non-profit organization dedicated to delivering crucial news stories across the state. Their coverage spans a variety of topics including agriculture, education, public safety, and politics. Supported by private donations and various foundations, South Dakota News Watch works alongside multiple media organizations to fulfill its mission.

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  • 2 weeks ago | sdnewswatch.org | Carson Walker

    South Dakota News Watch is adding a full-time reporter who will focus on rural and Native American communities across the state as a Report for America corps member. Molly Wetsch was born and raised in South Dakota. Her family comes from farming towns and the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, so she understands the issues that are unique to both communities.

  • 2 weeks ago | sdnewswatch.org | Bart Pfankuch

    MITCHELL, S.D. — Matthew Pearson found a successful career in the wind energy industry purely by chance. After graduating from high school in Vermillion, Pearson knew he didn’t want to pursue a four-year degree and instead scrolled through the list of majors offered at Mitchell Tech, one of the state’s four technical colleges.

  • 3 weeks ago | sdnewswatch.org | Bart Pfankuch

    PIEDMONT, S.D. – John Carley joined about 100 other business operators in early May for a meeting of the Black Hills & Badlands Tourism Association to preview the 2025 tourism season. The mood in the room, he said, was "a little muted" compared to recent years, when South Dakota set repeated records for visitors and tourism spending.

  • 1 month ago | sdnewswatch.org | Stu Whitney

    In the spring of 2024, the Norwegian American Historical Association received some encouraging news. The Minnesota-based organization was approved for a federal grant of about $300,000 to preserve, digitize and share materials documenting relief efforts of Norwegian-Americans toward their homeland during the German occupation of Norway in World War II.

  • 1 month ago | sdnewswatch.org | Stu Whitney

    More than half of South Dakotans oppose building a new men’s state prison in rural Lincoln County, according to a poll co-sponsored by South Dakota News Watch, another blow to a project that failed to secure final funding during the 2025 legislative session. The statewide survey, also sponsored by the Chiesman Center for Democracy at the University of South Dakota, showed that 52% of voters are against using the Lincoln County site, while 34% are for it and 14% are not sure.

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