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University Center, which started primarily as a night school for nontraditional college students in Sioux Falls, is expanding its daytime course offerings, a move some lawmakers say propels the school closer to ...

LEAD - Pulling open one of the six dark-green main front doors at the Historic Homestake Opera House, John Humphrey reveals a renovated lobby and a grand wooden staircase.

The state Supreme Court has refused to dismiss a libel lawsuit against the Argus Leader and its top editor over a column he wrote.

A professor of physics at Brown University, Dr. Richard Gaitskell, will visit the University of South Dakota Tuesday to speak about possibilities at the Sanford Underground Laboratory in the former Homestake ...

Posted by: Todd Epp - 06/28/2008 12:09 AM The Argus Leader this morning followed up on my story Tuesday about the IRS tax lien filed against SDAVP Ag Development LLC at the Lincoln County Register of Deeds ...

PIERRE - Two programs in the South Dakota Highway Patrol offer incentive pay but aren't bonuses, Public Safety Secretary Tom Dravland said Monday.

Patricia Stricherz of rural Dell Rapids has announced her candidacy for District 8 House of Representatives.

Sioux Falls police on Saturday afternoon arrested a state penitentiary inmate they say showed his genitals to four young girls, police spokesman Sam Clemens said.

A June 1 Argus Leader letter to the editor urging South Dakotans to sign a petition against eminent domain amendments is signed by a South Dakotan, but is based on misleading information supplied by ...

Converting patients' health records is a necessary evolution that will make health care more efficient for taxpayers, patients and doctors.

Jay Kirschenmann * Argus Leader * June 13, 2008 An artists' reception for the Governor's Third Biennial Art traveling exhibition, "Endless Imagination," is 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. today at the South Dakota Art ...

MITCHELL - My routine is tight. With three Argus Leader Tour de Kotas to my credit, I know what to pack.

Unfortunate situation fails to mitigate county's duty to provide unaffiliated interpreters Editorial Board * Argus Leader * June 12, 2008 For Minnehaha County taxpayers, the prospect of paying $20,000 to ...

ELIZABETH GORDER * ARGUS LEADER * June 10, 2008 Four area teachers will travel to Turkey next month to learn about Turkish culture and ways to incorporate the new experience into their classrooms and school ...

In the 1970s, America faced an oil crisis, and we were asked to change our ways to conserve energy.

There is something causing me to wonder how this second pipeline from Hardisty, Canada, is going to run across several states to the refinery in Cushing, Okla.

Editorial Board * Argus Leader * June 4, 2008 Teachers should be paid for professional development and training, and school districts should be supported in their efforts to help teachers improve.

Josh Verges * jverges@argusleader.com * May 28, 2008 The allegations surround Brent and Dawn Barton, who own the Mobridge and Mina-area hunting outfitter South Dakota Adventures.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton apologized Friday for remarks she made about the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy during a discussion with the Argus Leader editorial board on Friday.

After declaring bankruptcy in 1999, Brohm Mining Company left an environmental contamination mess at a mining site near Lead.