State media shifts again

South Dakota News Watch The new Rapid City Post print edition is part of the quickly evolving news landscape in the state of South Dakota.

New papers open, Lakota Times shifts

Assessing property tax change proposals

Gubernatorial collage

News Watch broke down the various proposals and spoke with tax policy watchers to get a sense of the challenges and opportunities of the ideas being floated.

Ruth – A Biblical breath of fresh air we need

Francisco Hayez/A Woman As Ruth, 1835

A breath of fresh air is what we need right now.

Letter to the Editor – February 11, 2026

How prevalent is voter fraud?

Lessons in history for our current officials

Getty Images via States Newsroom President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive for the National Governors Association Evening Dinner in 2025.

My wife and I recently watched a documentary program on SDPB that featured the role that Walter F. White played as the leader of NAACP from the 1930s to the 1950s.

News Briefs – Feb. 11, 2026

Courtesy photo On Jan. 29, the Mickelson Middle School Quiz Bowlers attended a quiz bowl competition in Hartford, SD. There were 19 teams at this competition with four of those teams from MMS. Brookings Team 2 — (Above, from left:) Timothy Jin, Adrian Butzin, Matthew Michna, Trevor Gloege and Harrison Ragsdale — finished in third place. Brookings Team 1 took 9th place with Brookings Team 3 coming in right behind them in 10th place. Finally, Brookings Team 4 got 16th place.

Quiz Bowl; Johnson’s DC office seeking interns; Extension offers estate planning classes and more

Bill would make coaches mandatory reporters

A bill to require high school coaches to report abuse and neglect earned the full support of a South Dakota House of Representatives panel on Friday.

We could all have been Alex Pretti

Mark Johnsen

Over the last few weeks, we have seen and heard a number of very disturbing interactions between the various agencies of our Department of Homeland Security and people who are protesting their actions.

State legislature erodes church-state line

Recently the South Dakota Legislature approved a Joint Resolution calling on one another and all South Dakotans to “seek the Lord Most High for his healing presence and mercy upon South Dakota.”

Rhoden's grant strategy a likely winner

Gov. Larry Rhoden and Lt. Gov. Tony Venhuizen speak to members of the media after a town hall event in downtown Sioux Falls on Nov. 20, 2025.

South Dakota Gov. Larry Rhoden has been getting some flak recently from his Republican primary election opponents for using his office to bolster his reelection campaign.