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On January 13, nearly 400 landowners and South Dakota citizens gathered at the South Dakota Capitol Rotunda for a private property rights rally to kick off the 2025 legislative session. During the rally, Rep.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley released this statement following former President Biden’s decision to commute the sentence of Leonard Peltier from life in prison to serving the remainder of his sentence in home confinement: “The Attorney General’s Office strongly opposes this action and has in recent months argued against any change in the defendant’s sentence. He was convicted in the 1975 cold-blooded murders of FBI Special Agents Ronald Williams and Jack Coler on the Pine Ridge Reservation. That conviction has been reviewed and upheld by no fewer than 22 federal judges since then. Former Gov. Janklow, who was Attorney General at the time of the murders, also opposed any reduction or change in sentence. I was the prosecutor in the Annie Mae Aquash murder trial that elicited the testimony from the witness recounting how Peltier described in his own words executing the FBI Special Agent by shooting him through his hand raised to protect himself into the face. The Attorney General’s Office will continue to stand with, and protect, law enforcement.”

The most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture data show that total beef imports during the 2024 period January through November were up 24 percent compared to the same period in 2023. The largest surges in imports this last year came from three countries: Australian beef imports were up 67 percent, Brazilian beef imports were up 60 percent, and Uruguayan beef imports were up 76 percent.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) recently issued advance notice of proposed rulemaking titled Price Discovery and Competition in Markets for Fed Cattle is intended to resolve a very serious and chronic problem in the cattle industry’s fed cattle market. That problem is that a super majority of fed cattle have been shifted out of the industry’s price discovery market – the cash market – and into alternative marketing arrangements or AMAs.

We stand here at the start of the 100th session of the South Dakota State Legislature. So today, I’m going to share with you the top-10 reasons why South Dakota will continue to be an example to the nation.

Sometime this month Gov. Kristi Noem will get her seal of approval from the U.S. Senate to become the nation’s next secretary of Homeland Security. That paves the way for Lt. Gov. Larry Rhoden to be the next governor of South Dakota.

One of the major items the South Dakota State Legislature will hash out this session is the budget for 2026. In her budget address earlier this month, Governor Kristi Noem discussed what she would like to see reflected as priorities for 2026 and a few areas that could be cut to pay for them.

The Gregory City Council held a special meeting at 6:00 p.m., Thursday, January 9, 2025. The only business item on the agenda for the meeting was to con-vene in executive session to discuss hiring an applicant for the position of public works superintendent.

Rachelle Norberg has been appointed as the new city attorney for the city of Gregory. Norberg is a Gregory County native, having grown up in Burke and graduating from Burke High School in 2011.