South Dakota News & Events

Since December, nine people between 12 and 24 years old have killed themselves on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota, and dozens of others have tried, but failed.

South Dakota Governor’s Office of Economic Development is trying to convince people to move there with an ad campaign reasoning the state is ‘better than Mars.’

The index continues to point to South Dakota as the most entrepreneurial-friendly state in the U.S., benefiting most from the lack of individual income tax, capital gains tax, corporate income tax and inheritance tax or "death tax.

Dakota Rising is a three-year Dakota Resources program that helps rural entrepreneurs discover new ways to grow their business.

The EB-5 visa program, a longstanding federal program in which wealthy foreigners can get green cards for investing $500,000 into certain U.S. projects, is at the core of a still-unfolding scandal in South Dakota involving high-ranking politicians, powerful business interests and alleged criminality.

The state Board of Economic Development adopted a new policy today for businesses that receive low-interest state loans for projects but don’t fulfill their job-creation agreements

The boom has many causes, chief among them a strong ag economy scarcely affected by the 2007 recession.

In addition to asking for a criminal investigation, the governor said he has initiated an "independent review" of the state economic development office "to verify that any alleged misconduct was an isolated incident."

Over the past five years, the number of wineries in the state has increased from 15 to 25.

Legislature has rejected attempts to boost minimum, and opponents of an increase say a bump could cost jobs