Note: This is the first of a two part series on Republican U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth. This first article concentrates on why she is running; the next article will examine her views on the major issues. SIOUX FALLS (NPN) –“Transparency” and “Gen-Xers” are not terms you typically hear from a Republican U.S.

Though information is still sketchy, at least one South Dakota non-federal health insurance plan may be less expensive than its on-exchange counterpart, says a new study.

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.

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

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.

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.

Are bloggers, those pesky, pajama wearing screed writers, journalists? In South Dakota, at least one state judge says they are. Besides captivating the South Dakota political world last week, the State of South Dakota v. Daniel Willard misdemeanor “robo-call” trial in Madison also had the South Dakota blogosphere abuzz. Circuit Court Judge Vincent Foley ruled that blogger Pat Powers, owner of the conservative S.D. War College blog, was a journalist due to his previous reporting on the matter. “I am of the opinion that. . .” Judge Foley is quoted, “bloggers are journalists in the modern sense of the world.”

Two tribal members have taken legal action to halt the recent referendum approving the sale and consumption of alcohol on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Oglala Sioux Tribal Attorney General Tatewin Means said Wednesday that a hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 20 in Oglala Sioux Tribal Court on what she called "the equivalent" of an injunction.

Utah's rural development state director has lauded Elsie Meeks, South Dakota's rural development director, for her work with Native American communities and economic development. Wilson "David" Conine, Meeks' Utah U.S. Department of Agriculture counterpart, made the comments at the eighth annual Governor's Native American Summit held last week at Utah Valley University in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Women from the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe and other groups will hold a march Saturday against alcohol at Whiteclay, according to the group Alcohol Justice. The march will begin from the four-way stop sign in Pine Ridge and continue to Whiteclay, Neb. "The whole world watches as we fight to save our nation from the mental disease of alcoholism," said activist Olowan Martinez.

I am one of probably few Americans who have actually been to Syria. When journalists report about gassings and bombings in Damascus' suburbs, they may be places I've visited. It was 2003 during the throes of the second Gulf War. I was visiting Damascus because I had a client in Damascus that my law firm was representing.

On this date, Sept. 3, 1974, Sioux Falls had its earliest freeze. An excerpt from NOAA : SD Weather History and Trivia for September : "The earliest freeze on record in Sioux Falls occurred on September 3rd, 1974 when the morning low dipped to 31 degrees.

You and me as typical South Dakotans can't really understand the Middle East. It's not that you or I are stupid or prejudiced or uneducated. We're not. But we come from a society and ways of thinking that are unlike those in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, etc. At first impression, not understanding how the Middle East works doesn't have much direct impact on our daily lives.

A pair of North Central Region wings – Nebraska and South Dakota – recently conducted their first Legislative Days, making sure their respective states’ lawmakers are aware of the services Civil Air Patrol members carry out for their communities and the nation. In Lincoln, the Nebraska Wing’s day at the Capitol began with a breakfast meeting and briefing for lawmakers and their staffs. Col. David Plum, wing commander, briefed senators and legislative staffers on the wing’s capabilities. Later, members spread through the building to meet and leave information on CAP with senators who hadn’t been able to attend the breakfast. Officers and cadets alike were on hand to speak to their representative about the wing. In Pierre, “the idea is to tell policymakers the South Dakota Civil Air Patrol story of the many volunteer hours spent on photo reconnaissance and other missions for state, federal, tribal and local governments,” said Col. John Seten, wing commander.

Pictured is a sunrise seen from the new Naz City development of Erbil, Iraq. ERBIL, IRAQ — While South Dakota service men and women along with their colleagues from across the United States stream out of Iraq this month, at least in northern Iraq’s semi-independent Kurdistan Autonomous Region, the rest of the world — and their goods — are streaming in.

In less than two months, South Dakota’s National Guardsmen and women, along with nearly all other American forces, will be gone from Iraq. This Veterans Day weekend, for the thousands of South Dakotans who have served — or are serving — in Iraq or the Iraq Theater of Operations, it is a time to reflect.