USDA spokesperson says cutting roughly $1 billion in federal funding for locally grown food for schools and charities signals "a return to long-term, fiscally responsible initiatives."

Rollback of climate regulations in Trump administration highlights policy differences between South Dakota and Minnesota.

Fact brief on the impact of workforce shortage, declining farm income, weakening consumer spending and higher interest rates.

Supporters and critics of the plan to eliminate the department weigh in on how it could affect the state, whose share of federal funds for education was second-highest nationally in 2021-22.

Elementary and middle schoolers competed Saturday for a chance at Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington.

Each week, experts check several variables including precipitation, temperatures, soil moisture, snow cover, and water levels in streams and lakes to determine drought conditions.

Turkeys, cattle, cats and pheasants in South Dakota have been infected with bird flu. Scientists worry: Is a large human outbreak next? South Dakota is second in the nation for bird flu outbreaks at commercial poultry farms and an infection at a pheasant farm that led to the death of 30,000 birds.