South Dakota News & Events

"These (candidates)are the Kobe Bryants and the Michael Jordans of Type 1 diabetes," said Kelby Krabbenhoft, Sanford’s chief executive.

The Web site can help businesses with employment-related solutions and assist people with job placement and career transition services, the labor department says.

"We cannot let any discovery go unattended that could potentially go to commercialization."

"This (South Dakota) is a good place to do business. We believe we have great opportunities to continue to invest here," said Bob Rowe.

The goal of the five-year demonstration project is to encourage primary care physician practices to use electronic health records (EHR) to improve the quality of patient care.

As the technology based economic development landscape changes in South Dakota, so must the GOI mission.

The fund will invest primarily in regional companies located in Brookings and the tri-state area of South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.

The Board of Regents is seeking $75 million in bond authority as part of a $117 million project to upgrade science facilities and research laboratories at the public universities to provide state-of-the-art equipment to students and faculty.

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation company came up with the Tanka Bar as a modern-day spinoff of a traditional Lakota food called "wasna" that sustained Great Plains Indians during long trips centuries ago.

The brain drain effect, as it’s called in higher education circles, plays a crucial role in the state economically because college graduates look elsewhere for better jobs, leaving South Dakota with a deficit in the pool of college-educated individuals to enter the work force.