The US Declaration of Independence frames Indigenous resistance as aggression and colonial violence as self-defense.

Chemical releases from industrial accidents that hurt or killed people increased by nearly 50 percent in recent years.

On the eve of the nation’s 250th birthday, President Donald Trump used his address Friday night South Dakota to allege that ...

The Republicans’ harmful megabill was enacted on July 4, 2025. As the law’s one-year anniversary approaches, families across ...

Seth is editor-in-chief of South Dakota Searchlight. He was previously a supervising senior producer for South Dakota Public Broadcasting and a newspaper journalist in Rapid City and Mitchell.

ICE officials have pushed to double arrests after the White House called for an increase to 2,000 arrests per day.

US Air Force Major Jason Watson cited “an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s authority” to justify his protest.

As we observe the U.S.’s 250 th birthday, I am reminded of the words of James Baldwin, who wrote that, in the true pursuit of ...

Trump’s plan offers no end to Israel’s genocide, only an entrenchment of Israel’s control and continued ethnic ...

The Torrance County Detention Facility has been the subject of complaints about sewer and water problems in the past.

Some worry the law could have a chilling effect on other local policies aimed at moving the state toward cleaner energy.

The restrictive policy on the press “surely is a perverse reading of the First Amendment,” Judge Paul Friedman said.