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NPN is an affordable alternative or supplement to traditional news services. Using all the tools of digital media, NPN provides news and information that media outlets and individual scribers require. It is owned, edited and reported by journalist, writer, lawyer and entrepreneur Todd Epp. Todd's has been a reporter, anchor, producer, executive producer and manager at KTWU-TV (PBS/Topeka), SD Public Broadcasting, KSFY-TV (ABC/Sioux Falls) and KDLT-TV (NBC/Sioux Falls). He has also been the Brookings, SD correspondent for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader (SD) and a freelancer for the Mitchell Daily Republic (SD). His freelance writing has appeared in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, South Dakota History, Kansas History, the Washburn Law Journal and South Dakota Magazine.

Local players make good on Sage collegiate football cards.
09/06/2026

Local players make good on Sage collegiate football cards.

For Northern Plains collectors, players from USD, SDSU and nearby states make the back of the card as interesting as the front.

“Go to the Bunker! Go to the Bunker, now!” was a common radio call during SDPTV’s Statehouse productions in the late 198...
09/03/2026

“Go to the Bunker! Go to the Bunker, now!” was a common radio call during SDPTV’s Statehouse productions in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The back of the office had a half-finished tunnel in it. We were in the bowels of the bowels of the Capitol.

It took a lot of gear and people to produce Statehouse “back in the day”--1991

You kids get off my yard and go play with an e-bike!
08/31/2026

You kids get off my yard and go play with an e-bike!

Harrisburg, South Dakota, has sensible new rules for young riders, speeds and helmets, but making every e-bike and scooter violation a crime risks turning reasonable safety regulation into overkill.

There's a beef about Trump allowing more foreign beef into the USA.
08/24/2026

There's a beef about Trump allowing more foreign beef into the USA.

The McPherson County state’s attorney argues that bringing in cheaper foreign beef would weaken cattle prices just as ranchers are being encouraged to rebuild the nation’s depleted herd.

Interestingly, Noem and Poem rhyme!
08/22/2026

Interestingly, Noem and Poem rhyme!

“A Poem to Kristi Noem” uses anaphora — repetition at the beginnings of successive lines — to trace how a governor once trusted by many South Dakotans became a national embarassment.

It is no longer 1950 in Lincoln County, with agriculture as king.
08/21/2026

It is no longer 1950 in Lincoln County, with agriculture as king.

An agricultural land-tax debate revived the claim that Lincoln County is a “farming county.” GDP, taxable value, sales and employment measures point to an economy led elsewhere.

Take me home, country roads….
08/15/2026

Take me home, country roads….

The Saturday RFQ rises to 4.7 as lower vehicle counts and fewer patrol injury crashes run against heavier city arrest totals, 29 hospital inpatients and three fatalities listed in the SDHP rally tally

And the Rolling Thinning of the Herds carries on.
08/14/2026

And the Rolling Thinning of the Herds carries on.

Through the first five clean traffic days, vehicle counts trailed last year’s anniversary pace by nearly 12%. Preliminary Sturgis Police numbers moved the other way, with more arrests, and citations.

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally continues to spool up.
08/10/2026

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally continues to spool up.

Temporary traffic signals reach as far south as Hill City, while 7 if 8 admitted Rally patients in Saturday’s Monument Health tally went to Rapid City — evidence that the 10-day surge reaches far.

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