South Dakota News Watch, Inc.

21/08/2025

Where ranks right now in funding.

A fact brief that refutes or confirms a claim with supporting information and additional evidence and context.

20/08/2025

South Dakota News Watch is now available across the social web, on @sdnewswatch.org

20/08/2025

"You can also see incomes growing in smaller farming communities as well." See the median income for your ZIP code and how is doing as a whole.

South Dakota's median household income more than doubled over the past two decades, from $37,618 in 2000 to an estimated $72,421.

19/08/2025

Countries have flags, but what about cities?

A fact brief that refutes or confirms a claim with supporting information and additional evidence and context.

18/08/2025

“It is pollution. But it is pollution taking place under the watchful eye of regulators.” 's toxic release report from the EPA

Most of the 7.5 million pounds of chemicals emitted in 2024 were treated prior to release and were within regulatory limits.

15/08/2025

Read the Hall of Fame's expansion plans for Chamberlain and classrooms statewide as well as the bios of the 2025 class, which includes a new category.

Fundraising campaign has raised more than half of $4.5 million goal.

14/08/2025

Sioux Falls is back in the Little League World Series. A fact brief on whether other teams have made it.
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A fact brief that refutes or confirms a claim with supporting information and additional evidence and context.

13/08/2025

The latest U.S. Census data on 's age, including interactive graphics of the median age in all 66 counties and how many people are in each age group.
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High birth rate on reservations and presence of college students counteracts aging counties, as state's average age creeps past 38.

12/08/2025

Are East River and West River also different for gas prices?
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A fact brief that refutes or confirms a claim with supporting information and additional evidence and context.

11/08/2025

"We're already exceeding the recharge rate in those areas." New USGS study foretells water supply troubles even during normal precipitation.

Water supplies are not sufficiently recharging in the most populous areas of the Black Hills. Is a $2 billion Missouri River pipeline the answer?

08/08/2025

"Young professionals are driving the city for the better." now about half rural and half urban.

Sioux Falls and Rapid City areas are now home to 465,000 people and growing, and it's not just the availability of jobs that's attracting them.

07/08/2025

When was the last time Rapid City passed a school bond? Our latest fact brief: https://buff.ly/cYxY5A6

A fact brief that refutes or confirms a claim with supporting information and additional evidence and context.