Todd Epp

(NPN) South Dakota’s wet spring has morphed into a dry fall. In fact, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, eastern South Dakota in particular has slipped into moderate drought (D1).

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(NPN) Pioneer Energy, LLC of Lake Andes, S.D. has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the USDA for a feasibility study to build a 99 megawatt wind farm.

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(NPN) Anti-smoking groups say South Dakota children will benefit if Congress passes President Obama’s proposal to expand early childhood education and fund it with an increase in federal tobacco taxes. 

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(NPN) – Regulators, attorneys general and borrowers aren’t the only ones upset with Western Sky Financial, a Native American owned online “payday” loan company that was based on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in northern South Dakota.

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(NPN) The South Dakota Retailers Association has joined 42 other food-related and retailer groups in supporting the dairy provisions in the for the dairy provisions as included in the House-passed Farm Bill.

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(NPN) -- South Dakota’s teen driving death rate has decreased, according to a new study.

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(NPN) -- The USDA is providing a telecommunications company that operates in rural areas of South Dakota and Minnesota a nearly $25 million loan to improve broadband service.

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Fewer South Dakota children lived in poverty in 2012 compared to 2011. However, the 2012 rate is still higher than it was in 2007.

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Convicted rapist and former state legislator Ted Klaudt has filed an action in U.S. District Court in Sioux Falls requesting the federal court “remove” an unaccepted action he attempted to file with the South Dakota Supreme Court.

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As a trial and transactional lawyer, I’ve done lots of negotiating. As a journalist and writer, I also negotiate for interviews and rights to photos. As a regular person, I negotiate everything from buying a house to hiring someone to shovel the driveway

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