Property tax task force to meet in Pierre with opportunity for public comment
September 16, 2025
A January 2025 view of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) A legislative task force
A January 2025 view of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) A legislative task force
A students works in the Division of Biomedical and Translational Sciences at the University of South Dakota. (Courtesy of the
Nikki Gronli speaks in downtown Sioux Falls on Sept. 10, 2025, during the formal launch of her campaign for South
Sioux Falls residents vote in the general election on Nov. 5, 2024, at St. Lambert’s Catholic Church. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota
Nikki Gronli, former state rural development director for the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the Biden administration, participates in a
A proposed enCore Energy uranium mine in South Dakota would be located along the southwestern edge of the Black Hills,
Three candidates hoping to be South Dakota’s next governor support a statewide policy or law banning cellphones from school classrooms.
The campus of Lake Area Technical College in Watertown. (Courtesy of Lake Area Technical College) Leaders of the state’s technical
A person shields a cellphone with their arm while reading a book. (Photo illustration by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) Platte-Geddes
U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, answers questions during a Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce event on Aug. 28,
Billy Mawhiney, a Democrat from Sioux Falls, has announced his candidacy for the U.S. House. (Courtesy of Billy Mawhiney) Sioux
Solar panels are installed at a private residence on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota in late 2024.
From left, Iowa’s Kim Reynolds, Nebraska’s Jim Pillen and South Dakota’s Larry Rhoden participate in the Tri-State Governors’ Conference in
U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, speaks to the Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce on Aug. 22, 2025, in
The High Plains Processing plant is expected to open in mid-October south of Mitchell. (Photo courtesy of Janelle Atyeo) MITCHELL
South Dakota Public Broadcasting Executive Director Julie Overgaard holds a press conference at the Sioux Falls SDPB studio on Aug.
South Dakota Republican congressional delegates, from left, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Sen. Mike Rounds and Rep. Dusty Johnson speak
A cow in a pasture near Eureka in September 2024. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) South Dakota State University is working
The Dakota Plains Legal Services office in Rapid City, pictured on Aug. 14, 2025. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) A nonprofit
The Biliaze family, including parents Ilona and Valerii, sit at their kitchen table on May 12, 2025, in Watertown. (Makenzie
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, speaks at a Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce Inside Washington luncheon
A January 2025 view of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) A legislative task force
A Sioux Falls resident votes in the city and school board election at Southern Hills United Methodist Church on April
Amanda Lounsbery (left) and her son Hayden Lounsbery survey damage to their family’s soybean fields on July 29, 2025. Their
An economic assistance application for the South Dakota Department of Social Services. (Photo illustration by Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) Changes
A Sioux Falls School District educator teaches students reading at Lowell Elementary during the 2024-2025 school year. (Courtesy of the
State House Speaker Jon Hansen, R-Dell Rapids, speaks during a Comprehensive Property Tax Task Force meeting on July 16, 2025,
Feeding South Dakota’s Rapid City location on May 30, 2025. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) Feeding South Dakota is the first
Derek Johnson, state economist with the governor’s Bureau of Finance and Management, and LRC Chief Fiscal Analyst Jeff Mehlhaff (left
Autumn Tree Top works on a math problem on July 17, 2025, at the Career Learning Center of the Black
A South Dakota Department of Social Services economic assistance application. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) South Dakota will withdraw its Medicaid
At a farm market in St. Petersburg, Florida, on April 14, 2012, SNAP recipients were able to use their Electronic
A January 2025 view of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) Now that South Dakota
Law enforcement, Sioux Falls officials and legislators participate in a forum on July 22, 2025, in downtown Sioux Falls about
South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s logo at its downtown Sioux Falls studio. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) South Dakota Public Broadcasting is
Students in the Sioux Falls School District play on a playground. (Courtesy of Sioux Falls School District) Teacher contracts were
An application for economic assistance from programs managed by the South Dakota Department of Social Services. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)
The state flag flies in front of the South Dakota Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) Two legislative groups
State Rep. Logan Manhart, R-Aberdeen, speaks on the South Dakota House floor on Jan. 22, 2025. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)
Ilona Biliaze plays with her 7-month-old son Brian in their Watertown home on May 12, 2025. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)
Lutheran Social Services State Refugee Coordinator Dana Boraas poses for a photo in June 2025 in the LSS Center for
Members of the Comprehensive Property Tax Task Force meet in Sioux Falls on June 25, 2025. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)
Linsey Sapp, who wears an “Inmate Rights” shirt and whose husband is incarcerated, speaks to lawmakers at an Initial Incarceration,
Nikki Gronli, former USDA Rural Development state director, speaks at a state Department of Social Services public hearing regarding cuts
The Senate floor at the state Capitol during the 2024 Legislature. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) South Dakota legislative leaders recently
(Getty Images) The number of reported measles cases has grown to four in South Dakota, according to a Wednesday news
A sign for the South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation at its Sioux Falls office in June 2025. (Makenzie
The Sioux Falls One Stop houses offices for several state departments, including Health, Social Services and Revenue. It hosted a
An airplane drops fire retardant chemicals near the First Thunder Fire just west of Rapid City on Sept. 3, 2024.
(Getty Images) If Republicans in the U.S. Senate pass the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” as written, 13,000 South Dakotans
The “Wellness on Wheels” program launched in spring of 2024. (Courtesy of South Dakota Department of Health) The South Dakota
Good Samaritan Society Sioux Falls Center, which was recently removed from a remedial program for nursing homes. (John Hult/South Dakota
Mike Quinn and Mike Conder of Arrington Watkins consultants in Phoenix, speak to members of the Project Prison Reset work
A marijuana plant at the Dakota Herb grow operation near Tea, South Dakota. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) Another former South
South Dakota Department of Social Services Secretary Matt Althoff speaks at a press conference in Sioux Falls on April 25,
South Dakota Department of Education Secretary Joseph Graves speaks to the state House Education Committee on Jan. 17, 2024. (Makenzie
An equal justice statue stands outside the doors of the Minnehaha County Courthouse in Sioux Falls. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)
U.S. House Republicans are debating cutbacks to Medicaid, the health care program for lower-income Americans and some people with disabilities.
A January 2025 view of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) An employee in the
Matthew Schweich, president of the Voter Defense Association, speaks at a “Vote No on L” campaign event in Sioux Falls