South Dakota's plan to build an $825 million men's prison complex in rural Lincoln County has sparked clashes of opinion.

More than 400 international teachers hold active certificates to teach in South Dakota schools. Here's why that's so crucial ...

A group of Lincoln County landowners has fought the state’s effort and sued to prevent the project from moving forward.

Three, two, one. OK, in your seats.” Just as she did as a teacher in her native Philippines, Madgelie Camba uses a countdown ...

Yes. A growing number of South Dakotans continue to work past retirement age. In 2018, a quarter of South Dakotans 65 and older were in the labor force. Five years later, that number climbed to ...

LINCOLN COUNTY, S.D. (South Dakota News Watch) - South Dakota’s four-year process to address the state’s correctional needs evolved into a plan to build a new men’s prison on 160 acres of ...

South Dakota Education Secretary Joseph Graves said in an email to News Watch that the state supports the use of international teachers. "This has proved to be an effective strategy in remote ...

“We had a great reputation and more patients than we could see,” Buehner told News Watch. “But nobody wants to come to South Dakota, and you can’t really blame them.” Serving as an OB ...

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Supporters Gov. Larry Rhoden and former Gov. Kristi Noem insisted the nearly 150-year-old SD State Penitentiary in Sioux ...