Clipart (NPN) – Chances of hitting “Bambi” while on South Dakota’s roads have decreased but are still high compared to the rest of the United.

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 Service Agency. The report is titled “Foreign Holdings of U.S. Agricultural Land Through Dec. 31, 2011.”. While South Dakota has one of the lowest rates — 0.3 percent of all farmland — the amount of foreign owned farmland increased nearly 15,000 acres from 2010 to 2011.

(NPN) South Dakota’s wet spring has morphed into a dry fall. In fact, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, eastern South Dakota in particular has.

Intertribal Bison Council in Rapid City, S.D. has received a $200,000 grant from the USDA.

Groups say S.D. children will benefit if Congress passes the President's proposal to expand early childhood education and fund it with federal tobacco taxes.

Pioneer Energy, LLC of Lake Andes, S.D. has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the USDA for a feasibility study to build a 99 megawatt wind farm.

LAKE ANDES — Pioneer Energy LLC, of Lake Andes, has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a feasibility study to build a 99-megawatt wind farm. Founded in 2009, Pioneer Energy is developing the Lake Andes Wind Facility near Lake Andes. According to its website, Pioneer Energy’s proposed site anticipates using 33-36 large turbines.

Regulators, attorneys general and borrowers aren’t the only ones upset with Western Sky Financial, a Native American owned online “payday” loan company.

The South Dakota Retailers Association has joined 42 other food-related and retailer groups in supporting the dairy provisions in the for the dairy provisions as included in the House-passed Farm Bill.

South Dakota’s teen driving death rate has decreased, according to a new study.

South Dakota’s teen driving death rate has decreased, according to a new study. Nationally, teen driving deaths have also decreased, according to Erie Insurance’s second annual state-by-state comparison of teen driving death rates. Nearly 16,000 16- to 19-year-olds died in car crashes with another teen behind the wheel from 2007 to 2011.

They’re born, they live violent lives on the South Dakota prairie, and then they die. A fine art photographer from Los Angeles captures their lives in black and white. Mitch Dobrowner, 56, has been chronicling the “lives” of massive thunderstorm in the American West and Plains — including South Dakota for nearly five years.

Howard's Horizon Health Care, Inc. has received $800,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to establish a new health delivery site. According to the federal Health Resources and Services Administration, health centers are community-based and patient-directed organizations that serve populations with limited access to health care.

Though perhaps not much of a surprise, U.S. Senator Tim Johnson sent an email letter to supporters today expressing his support for Rick Weiland to fill his.

Leaf-peepers in the Dakotas have a new tool to help them find the best times and places to view changing fall colors on U.S. Forest Service Land. The Forest Service has unveiled its U.S. Forest Service 2013 Fall Colors web pages. An interactive map lets viewers click on forests and grasslands and shows when the leaves and native grasses are peaking in a particular state or area.

America's "Shrine to Democracy" is in the center of a dispute over the freedom of information. The Mount Rushmore Society, the private, non-profit organization that is the national memorial's leading concessionaire and friends group, filed a complaint in federal district court in Rapid City late Friday.