Public Policy Polling is conducting a "push" poll gauging support for Rick Weiland, Democratic candidate for United States Senate and asking about perceived negatives about former S.D. Governor Mike Rounds. In an automated call Saturday, the poll asked who the respondent would support if the 2014 U.S.

South Dakota has the second highest incarceration rate of Native American men and the fourth highest rate of incarceration of Hispanic men. Those were among the findings of a recent study conducted by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee titled “Wisconsin’s Mass Incarceration of African-American Males: Workforce Challenges for 2013.”.

Canadian Pacific’s Holiday Train will visit Brookings and Huron Dec. 7. The train will visit Brookings at 5 p.m. at 534 S. 22nd Ave. and Huron at 10 p.m. at 1000 Market Road at the State Fair racetrack. The train’s schedule, available on CP’s website at www.cpr.ca and on CP’s Facebook page, outlines plans for the “train of lights” to partner with communities in raising food and money for local food banks.

Canadian Pacific’s Holiday Train will visit Brookings and Huron Dec. 7. The train will visit Brookings at 5 p.m. at 534 S. 22nd Ave. and Huron at 10 p.m.

(NPN) – Though it was way too much of a good thing, recent snow and rains greatly improved South Dakota’s drought situation. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, heavy and record setting precipitation fell this past week in the High Plains Region. In South Dakota, a blizzard set several snowfall records, including in Rapid City, which had a snowfall measurement of 23.1 ...

South Dakota is the 12th hardest-hit state by the federal government shutdown, according to a new study. Factors appear to be large per capita veteran and federal employee populations, and high use of Small Business Administration loans. WalletHub came to these conclusions after analyzing seven key areas in which government inoperability will affect citizens, and then ranking their relative impact on each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia.

What is the perception of the fairness or unfairness of South Dakota’s TV news outlets? Not too good, at least as compared to results for S.D.’s daily newspapers. Only one outlet — South Dakota Public Broadcasting — had a net positive differential of “fair” to “unfair” responses. Northern Plains News conducted an online reader survey of 100 self-reporting participants for a week in late September.

What is the perception of the fairness or unfairness of the South Dakota media? That is a question Northern Plains News set out to begin to answer in an.

WikiMedia Commons (NPN) – South Dakota has the second highest incarceration rate of Native American men and the fourth highest rate of.

The Daily Republic was rated the top newspaper organization in South Dakota by an informal, unscientific online poll conducted last week by the Northern Plains News Service. One hundred respondents were asked to note which daily newspapers were and were not “accurate, fair, timely and dependable.”.

Recent rains have helped drought conditions in the Dakotas, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

The halls of Congress and the nation’s airwaves are not the only places where partisans and citizens argue about the federal government shutdown.

South Dakota homeowners pay an average of 13 percent more for homeowner’s insurance after making one claim, according to a new InsuranceQuotes.com report. A South Dakotan’s average homeowner premium is $678 per year, but on average increases to $767 after making a claim. In some states, making a single homeowner’s insurance claim raises the annual premium cost more than 20 percent, according to the report.

Think high-tech startups and South Dakota doesn’t immediately come to mind. But South Dakota Innovation Partners, founded in 2009, is helping to change that perception by funding projects built on research and commercialization. Mark Luecke, a native South Dakotan who made his mark as an entrepreneur and then returned to the state, is the Executive Director of SD Innovation Partners.

The chances of hitting a deer while on South Dakota’s roads have decreased but are still high compared to the rest of the United States, according to a new report from automobile insurer State Farm. South Dakota dropped from the third highest to the fourth highest rate of deer-vehicle collisions nationally.

(NPN) – South Dakota has one of the lowest rates of foreign ownership of agricultural land in the United States, according to a new study by the USDA Farm.