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It’s been a good day, maybe even a good week or a good start to the year with things feeling like they are manageable, sticking to your routine, making good connections, feeling accomplished, feeling good, a sweet spot. When in this state, we have quick reflexes to the curve balls that are thrown our way and manage the situation and ourselves well. Reality for most people is that the sweet spot comes and goes. It doesn’t last forever. Outside factors, schedules, difficulty in relationships or other stressful events along with the different emotions that accompany those things can cause deviation from that sweet spot, which can cause dysregulation, feeling out of sorts, and a decrease in our ability to function well.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley announces that a former South Dakota Department of Social Services employee has been charged with using a DSS grocery voucher, intended for families in need, for personal use.

A grazing management workshop will be held February 4-6 in Winner, SD at the Holiday Inn Express. A practical grazing workshop, which brings the one who has done the research, the one who has taught it collegiately and a third who has seen it work on many ranches in three states.

The rule, which went into effect on November 5, 2024, requires producers to use both visually and electronically readable tags on covered cattle and bison herds. Many producers are concerned about the security and confidentiality of EID tag data.

South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley will introduce seven bills in this year’s State Legislature that deal with government accountability, whistleblower protections, human trafficking, and corrections.

Commissioner’s relatives control a trust that owns land on the route, but she says ‘I do not have a legal conflict’ The company proposing a carbon dioxide pipeline has formally requested that a South Dakota regulator recuse herself from the project’s permit application because of an alleged conflict of interest, but the regulator said she does not have “a legal conflict.” In a letter sent January 2, Iowabased Summit Carbon Solutions asked Public Utilities Commissioner Kristie Fiegen to disqualify herself. That would allow the governor to appoint another state official to fill in for Fiegen during the three-member commission’s consideration of the application.

In comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), Packers and Stockyards Division, R-CALF USA expressed support for the agency’s advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR), “Price Discovery and Competition in Markets for Fed Cattle.”

The condition of South Dakota’s state-managed highways and bridges is expected to worsen over the next decade, state Department of Transportation Secretary Joel Jundt told lawmakers January 16, in the House Transportation Committee.

BROOKINGS, S.D. - South Dakota State University Extension is hosting the third annual South Dakota Virtual Vegetable Short Course.

The City of Colome won first place and will represent all of South Dakota in the Great American Water Taste Test in Washington, DC, in February 2026. The drinking water is judged based on three attributes: clarity, bouquet, and taste. They have received the artglass trophy, two Full-Conference registration passes for the 2026 Annual Technical Conference, recognition in ServiceLine magazine, and bragging rights for the next year.