Latest South Dakota Headlines
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How States Rate in Preventing Home, Auto, Work Accidents
Jun 28 2017 // No state goes far enough to protect its residents from leading causes of preventable deaths and injuries – commonly known as “accidents” – on the road, in homes and communities and at work, according to the...
South Dakota Workers’ Comp Lawyers Say Insurers’ Plan Would Limit Worker Rights
Jun 19 2017 // Lawyers who represent injured workers in South Dakota are preparing for a proposal from the insurance industry that would limit their ability to pursue legal claims against insurance companies that are intentionally...
Traffic Signal Upgrades in South Dakota May Increase Crashes
Jun 14 2017 // Traffic-signal upgrades intended to smooth traffic and improve safety in Sioux Falls appear to have slightly increased the number of vehicle accidents. The city has installed flashing yellow left turn arrows at 30...
New Flood Plain Maps Bring Good, Bad News for South Dakota Towns
May 25 2017 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s proposed revisions to Yankton’s flood plain map could encompass nearly 200 additional properties. On the flip side, a revision in Rapid City means 224 properties have...
Leaks Discovered in Dakota Access Pipeline System
May 24 2017 // The Dakota Access pipeline and a feeder line leaked more than 100 gallons of oil in North Dakota in separate incidents in March as crews prepared the disputed $3.8 billion pipeline for operation. Two barrels, or 84 gallons...
OSHA: South Dakota Firm Ignored Safety Rules Before Deadly Building Collapse
May 3 2017 // A construction company that was remodeling a historic downtown Sioux Falls, S.D., building when it collapsed and killed a worker willfully ignored precautions, federal workplace safety officials allege. The U.S....
Railway Sued by Family of South Dakota Man Run over by Train
Apr 26 2017 // The family of a BNSF Railway employee killed in an accident in western South Dakota is suing the railroad, alleging it failed to protect him from being hit by a train while he was clearing snow and ice from a track. The...
Tens of Thousands of Turkeys Killed in Iowa, South Dakota Fires
Apr 24 2017 // More than 25,000 turkeys have been killed in separate fires at farms in Iowa and South Dakota A fire at a turkey farm south of Wapello, Iowa, killed about 10,700 juvenile turkeys and caused about $300,000 in damages to the...
More Tickets Written After South Dakota Hiked Speed Limit to 80 mph
Apr 17 2017 // The number of speeding tickets issued by South Dakota state troopers has gone up since the state’s top speed limit increased from 75 mph to 80 mph nearly two years ago. An analysis of ticket data by the Argus Leader...
Appeal Rejected, ABC ‘Pink Slime’ Case Headed for Trial in South Dakota
Apr 7 2017 // ABC Broadcasting has lost a last-ditch bid before South Dakota’s highest court to avoid a trial in a beef producer’s $5.7 billion defamation case over reports about a product that critics call “pink...
Esurance Lays Off 30 Workers in South Dakota
Mar 31 2017 // About 30 Esurance employees in Sioux Falls have lost their jobs as part of cuts within the insurance company. The Argus Leader reports that has Esurance cut 100 jobs, mostly in Sioux Falls and in two California locations....
South Dakota Speeding Tickets Rise Along with 80 mph Limit
Mar 27 2017 // The number of speeding tickets issued by South Dakota state troopers has gone up since the state’s top speed limit increased from 75 mph to 80 mph nearly two years ago. According to an analysis of ticket data by the...
Reported Dakota Access Pipeline Vandalism Exposes Risk of Sabotage
Mar 23 2017 // The developer of the Dakota Access pipeline has reported “recent coordinated physical attacks” on the much-protested line, just as it’s almost ready to carry oil. Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners...
Judge: ABC Must Face Defamation Trial over ‘Pink Slime’ Reports
Mar 15 2017 // A South Dakota state judge has ordered ABC Broadcasting to face a potential $5.7 billion defamation lawsuit claiming it damaged Beef Products Inc. by referring in a series of reports to a meat product it sold as...
South Dakota Bucks National Trend of Increased Crash Fatalities
Feb 21 2017 // Crash fatalities are rising in many states but they’re going down in South Dakota. According to the National Safety Council, South Dakota had the fourth-lowest crash fatality rate in the country in 2016. Nationally,...
South Dakota Lawmakers Reject Insurer Tax Credit Disclosure
Feb 13 2017 // South Dakota lawmakers have rejected a bill that was meant to increase transparency in the state’s school choice scholarship program. The bill, voted down 9-6 in the House Education Committee, would have required...
South Dakota Bill Would Make Insurer Tax-Credit Program More Transparent
Jan 30 2017 // A group of South Dakota lawmakers has introduced a bill that would require certain information from the state-subsidized insurance company tax credit program for scholarships be made public. The tax credit scholarship...
Insurance, Business Laws Keeping Uber, Lyft Out of Sioux Falls, S.D.
Jan 9 2017 // Conflicting insurance and business regulations passed by the South Dakota Legislature last year mean Sioux Falls won’t get Uber, Lyft or other ride-hailing services anytime soon, according to a state lawmaker. Rep....
Midwest Regulation Report Card: States’ Grades Range from A to D
Jan 9 2017 // Grades assigned to the insurance regulatory systems in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin range from A to D in a...
Blizzards, Ice Storms Wreak Havoc In Midwest Plains
Dec 27 2016 // Travel conditions remained hazardous as a winter storm swept across much of the northern Great Plains, with blowing and drifting snow creating near-zero visibility on some roads. The combination of freezing rain, snow and...
