The state minimum wage will increase from $9.45/hour to $9.95/ hour effective Jan. 1, 2022.

Sharing the joy of the holiday season can mean even more by choosing to become a foster or adoptive family for a child in South Dakota. During this season, one of the greatest gifts a family can provide is the commitment to open their safe loving home to children or youth in need.

South Dakota state Senator Erin Tobin (district 21) has pre-filed a resolution applying to participate in a singletopic convention to propose a congressional term limits amendment. Senate Joint Resolution 298 (SJR298) will also be sponsored in the South Dakota House by Rep. Greg Jamison of district 12.

South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg announced on December 21 that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri has sustained the motion for a preliminary injunction on the Biden Administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors in the plaintiff-states of South Dakota, Missouri, Nebraska, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, Wyoming, Alaska, North Dakota, and New Hampshire.

Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg has joined a multi-state lawsuit against President Joe Biden’s overreaching COVID mandates. The suit led by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, takes aim at the President’s unlawful requirements of masks on toddlers and COVID-19 shots for staff and volunteers in Head Start Programs.

Shortly after the United States purchased the vast Louisiana Territory in 1803 from France, the feeling was that this gigantic piece of property would not be completely settled for at least 500 years. That was not the case. In 1903, there was no roundup organized by the Western South Dakota Stockgrowers Association in either Gregory or Lyman counties. At the WSDSGA meeting in 1904, the increasing number of homesteaders crowding onto the public domain in South Dakota was an important topic of discussion.