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Latest South Dakota news, sports, business and entertainment: HERSETH SANDLIN-HOUSE Herseth Sandlin to seek re-election SIOUX FALLS, S.D. South Dakota's lone U.S. House member, Democrat Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, says she plans to run for re-election. Herseth Sandlin had said earlier that her 2010 choices included running for re-election, an open ...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation says three rural water projects in North Dakota and South Dakota will share $93 million under the federal economic stimulus package.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 06/26/2009 9:28 AM More cheers for earmarks in Lake County! Wednesday's Madison Daily Leader reports that Senator Tim Johnson shoehorned $400K into the Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill to help build a sewer system around Brant Lake.

South Dakota tribal leaders have listened for years to federal officials who promise to confront the challenge of providing adequate health care to Native Americans, primarily through the chronically underfunded Indian Health Service.

INTERIOR - Travelers can pocket the normal $15-per-vehicle entrance fee during three summer weekends at Badlands National Park in western South Dakota.

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U.S. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar has given his department's Partners in Conservation Award to the Lewis and Clark Regional Water System.

Ticks, severe weather and other factors appear to have contributed to the deaths of cattle, horses and deer in an isolated area of southwestern South Dakota, acting State Veterinarian Dustin Oedekoven said Thursday.

Senator John Thune has sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar urging him to support funding for law enforcement surges similar to one conducted on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

South Dakota ranks 22nd in the nation for certified historic preservation projects in the Federal Rehabilitation Tax Credit program, according to an annual report from the National Park Service.

SIOUX FALLS - As the Obama administration sets out its agenda, tribes are wondering how the White House will handle the high crime rate on many of the nation's American Indian reservations.

Support was strong and opposition nonexistent Monday as the Mitchell Board of Education gave its collective stamp of approval to construction and financing plans for a new Longfellow Elementary School.

Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle will soon be seated as the head of the Health and Human Services.