Healthy compost will always contain herbicides that deteriorate before causing harm, but persistent herbicides degrade much slower and last long enough to damage plants, causing plants to curl, slow their growth and kill younger plants.
Senate Bill 146 was brought to the legislature as “an act to revise certain provisions regarding eligibility for parole for certain persons sentenced to life imprisonment.” If passed, the bill would give people 25 and under who committed a crime and were sentenced to life in prison, the chance for parole.
The state Senate approved giving $19 million to the Board of Regents for a new mineral industries building on the campus of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Monday. It'll head to the House next.
Executive director, Dexter Carman, announced that the Cave Collective will be moving to it’s new home at Aby’s Seed & Feed. The conversation came earlier when the owner reached out to the executive director.
The statehouse passed HB 1100, which initially would have pushed back the implementation date to July 2022. A compromise amendment was added to change it to January 2022.
Signs showing support for the transgender community filled Western Dakota Tech Saturday to bring attention to what's happening in the state legislature.
The controversial polygamist compound near Pringle was bought at a sheriff’s auction Thursday by former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Noem sent a letter to the state’s congressional delegation earlier this week asking for their assistance in advocating for the fireworks as the Biden administration takes power in Washington.
The committee on Commerce and Energy in the state Senate passed House Bill 1203 Thursday. This would allow state-chartered banks to conduct transactions with licensed businesses that distribute marijuana and industrial hemp.
Gov. Kristi Noem promised more information from the investigation would be released Thursday or Friday, adding that her administration had received permission from the victim’s family to release the documents and video of Ravnsborg’s interviews.
Protests are being organized in several South Dakota communities to speak out against transgender bills being discussed in the state legislature. One is happening in Rapid City.
Pending FDA approval, South Dakota is expected to receive an additional 7,000 Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines next week, the Secretary of Health said.
With early bird booth rates still available, Jeff Wangen with Farmers Insurance has tips on how to prepare for this year’s Black Hills Regional Job Fair. The job fair is scheduled for March 3 at the Rushmore Plaza Civic Center from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Health officials are reminding people that the virus is still a problem and that a lot more people are going to have to get vaccinated before a return to normalcy is possible.
Gov. Kristi Noem signed a bill that requires doctors to provide babies who survive an attempted abortion the same medical care as babies born other ways into law on Wednesday.