Ethanol boosters say E30 and marketing to youth point the way for corn fuel’s future
August 23, 2025
Fuel options at a central Sioux Falls gas station, as seen on Aug. 22, 2025. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) SIOUX
Fuel options at a central Sioux Falls gas station, as seen on Aug. 22, 2025. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) SIOUX
Tourists pass by members of the National Guard stationed outside Union Station in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 18, 2025. (Photo
The FEMA Disaster Recovery Center at Weaverville Town Hall on March 29, 2025 in Weaverville, North Carolina. (Photo by Allison
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
Then-White House National Security Advisor John Bolton (R) listens to President Donald Trump as he and Dutch Prime Minister Mark
From left, Rapid City Mayor Jason Salamun, Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken and South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley appear
PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota’s newly formed Governor’s Resilience and Infrastructure Task Force (GRIT) held its inaugural meeting this week
President Donald Trump speaks to the media as, left to right, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Labor Lori
South Dakota Public Broadcasting Executive Director Julie Overgaard holds a press conference at the Sioux Falls SDPB studio on Aug.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a Nashville press conference on July 18, 2025. An appeals court on
An equal justice statue sits outside the doors of the Minnehaha County Courthouse in Sioux Falls. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)
South Dakota Republican congressional delegates, from left, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Sen. Mike Rounds and Rep. Dusty Johnson speak
A man approaches the Minnehaha County Treasurer’s Office in Sioux Falls on Aug. 20, 2025, the second day on which
Drinks advertised as THC- and cannabis-infused on the shelves of a Rapid City store in July 2024. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (right), accompanied by President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at the White House on
A cow in a pasture near Eureka in September 2024. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) South Dakota State University is working
Gov. Larry Rhoden speaks to reporters from a podium on July 28, 2025, at the Public Safety Administration Building in
A January 2025 view of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) As South Dakota lawmakers
President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak Friday, Aug. 15, 2025, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska.
Former AmeriCorps service member Daniel Zare, 27, visits Project Change at Sligo Middle School on Monday, Aug. 11, 2025 in
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C., pictured on Nov. 25, 2024. (Photo by Shauneen Miranda/States
The Dakota Plains Legal Services office in Rapid City, pictured on Aug. 14, 2025. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight) A nonprofit
Federal Bureau of Investigation and Metropolitan Police Department officers conduct a traffic stop near the U.S. Capitol on Aug. 14,
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act on Aug. 14, 1935. (Photo by FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images) WASHINGTON —
A portion of the Wild Springs Solar project near New Underwood, just prior to going operational in March 2024. (Seth
President Donald Trump holds up an executive order after signing it during an indoor inauguration parade at the Capital One
Cells at the South Dakota State Penitentiary. (Courtesy of South Dakota Department of Corrections) A state board has approved the
The Biliaze family, including parents Ilona and Valerii, sit at their kitchen table on May 12, 2025, in Watertown. (Makenzie
South Dakota Public Broadcasting livestreams Senate floor debate on Jan. 21, 2025. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) A committee of South
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, speaks at a Greater Sioux Falls Chamber of Commerce Inside Washington luncheon
E.J. Antoni of the Heritage Foundation testifies before a U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Oct. 24, 2023. (Screenshot from C-SPAN)
Washington D.C. – U.S. Term Limits (USTL), the leader in the non-partisan national movement to limit terms for elected officials, praises
A variety of kratom and 7-OH products — including capsules, cartridges and wellness shots — are on display at a
A sign in an Indianapolis store shown on Aug. 1, 2023, says SNAP benefits are accepted. A new analysis by
President Donald Trump announces a “crime emergency” in Washington, D.C., during a White House press conference on Aug. 11, 2025.
A January 2025 view of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) A legislative task force
South Dakota Department of Health Secretary Melissa Magstadt speaks at a press conference in Sioux Falls on April 25, 2025.
Terrence Davis has declared his intention to seek the Democratic nomination for South Dakota secretary of state in 2026. A
A worker installs solar panels on a roof. (Photo by Getty Images) Several congressional Democrats on Friday slammed the Trump
South Dakota Republican Gov. Larry Rhoden speaks during a press conference Feb. 6, 2025, at the Capitol in Pierre with
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference with Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, speaks to Rotary members on April 17, 2025, at the Elks Lodge
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, left, and Texas Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, right, listen as Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene
An officer recruit fires a pistol during firearms training at the George S. Mickelson Law Enforcement Center in Pierre on
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrive at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025
An elementary school student concentrates while performing a sit-up during physical education class. (Photo via Getty Images) WASHINGTON — President
The South Dakota House of Representatives convenes on Feb. 5, 2024. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden
A portion of the Wild Springs Solar project near New Underwood, just prior to going operational in March 2024. (Seth
A dragonfly rests on a blade of prairie grass in western South Dakota. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) A bipartisan group
Nearly all abortions, except those to save a patient’s life, would be banned at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals
A nurse readies an MMR vaccine at Sanford Children’s Hospital in Sioux Falls. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) The South Dakota
113,000 South Dakotans in 2023 were considered food insecure, and South Dakota Healthy Nutrition Collaborative aims to fix that.
From left, U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, Gov. Larry Rhoden, Aberdeen businessman Toby Doeden, and state House Speaker Jon Hansen. (South
Agriculture is a challenging way of life, but the last few years have been some of the most challenging in
A sign for the Public Broadcasting Service is seen on its building headquarters on Feb. 18, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia.
South Dakota Secretary of State Monae Johnson speaks during a press conference about election security and integrity on Oct. 9,
Sisseton-Wahpeton Police Captain Gary Gaikowski speaks to the State-Tribal Relations Committee on July 31, 2025, in Agency Village. (John Hult/South
A January 2025 view of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) While more than a
J. Garret Renville, chairman of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, speaks to visitors from the State-Tribal Relations Committee about the tribe’s artifacts
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) today introduced the Conservation
A Sioux Falls resident votes in the city and school board election at Southern Hills United Methodist Church on April
Kimberlee Browne uses a brush to clear metal shards from the cutting deck of precision machining equipment at Lake Area
U.S. Deputy Agriculture Secretary Stephen Alexander Vaden testifies before the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee on July 30, 2025. (Photo via
U.S. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, speaks Aug. 12, 2024, at the David Lust Accelerator Building in Rapid City about
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference with Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee member
A Sioux Falls School District student walks to the bus. (Courtesy of Sioux Falls School District) When President Donald Trump
Budget cut was to 1 South Dakota State agricultural program; 3 other public and tribal universities take $1.6M hit.
Amanda Lounsbery (left) and her son Hayden Lounsbery survey damage to their family’s soybean fields on July 29, 2025. Their
Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during
U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, fields questions during a roundtable discussion at Avera Behavioral Health Hospital in Sioux Falls
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, center, announces his agency’s plans for deregulation from an Indianapolis trucking facility on Tuesday, July 29,
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
The South Dakota State Capitol at Pierre in December 2024. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) A state commission found Monday in
President Donald Trump and European Union leaders announced a trade framework over the weekend that will set 15% import taxes
Gov. Larry Rhoden speaks to reporters from a podium on July 28, 2025, at the Public Safety Administration Building in
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
A Sioux Falls resident votes in the general election on Nov. 5, 2024, at St. Lambert’s Catholic Church. (Makenzie Huber/South
The South Dakota Educational Telecommunications Board meets in Sioux Falls on July 24, 2025. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) SIOUX FALLS
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building in Washington, D.C., in a file photo from November 2024. (Photo by
A Sioux Falls School District educator works with students at JFK Elementary School. (Courtesy of Sioux Falls School District) I
Derek Johnson, state economist with the governor’s Bureau of Finance and Management, and LRC Chief Fiscal Analyst Jeff Mehlhaff (left
Rice-Eccles Stadium on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City is pictured on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. (Photo
National Public Radio headquarters on North Capitol Street in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (Photo by Jacob Fischler/States
The Federal Corrections Institution in Tallahassee, Florida, photographed on Thursday, July 24, 2025. Ghislaine Maxwell, former girlfriend of the late
The federal courthouse in Sioux Falls. (John Hult/South Dakota Searchlight) A Sioux Falls jury ordered a former state prison warden
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building in Washington, D.C., pictured on Dec. 18, 2017. (USDA photo
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) today reintroduced the Equitable Community Access to Pharmacist Services (ECAPS) Act,
Autumn Tree Top works on a math problem on July 17, 2025, at the Career Learning Center of the Black
Sioux Falls, SD – Surrounded by family, friends, and community supporters, Christine Erickson officially announced her candidacy for Mayor of
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., is pictured on Sunday, June 29, 2025, as the reconciliation package was under
Tiger Stadium at Louisiana State University pictured on Sept. 13, 2024. (Matthew Perschall for Louisiana Illuminator) WASHINGTON — A measure
Corn grows in a field in southeastern South Dakota in August 2023. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) Very little of South
David Sacks, U.S. President Donald Trump’s “AI and Crypto Czar”, speaks to President Trump as he signs a series of
New Nissan cars are driven onto a rail car to be transported from an automobile processing terminal located at the
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
House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana speaks to reporters about the Republican budget reconciliation package at a weekly press conference