economic development

PIERRE (AP) — A South Dakota legislative panel is holding its first hearing on the state's economic development agency and its involvement in issues related to a failed beef packing plant. The Government Operations and Audit Committee will review two reports from private auditing...

PIERRE -- The Legislature will spend time in the final three weeks of the 2014 session, and in the months afterward, looking at state government's activities in economic development. That includes the EB-5 immigrant investor program that has been the subject of state and federal investigations....

PIERRE -- Recently Gov. Dennis Daugaard answered questions regarding his knowledge and perspective of state government's involvement in the EB-5 program. The federal program offers preferential visa treatment to qualifying foreign citizens who provide loans or make investments in...

PIERRE — By a 68-0 vote that had members staring in wonder at the tally board, the state House of Representatives approved legislation that would create a task force on tribal economic development Tuesday. The issue hasn’t been specifi cally studied since the 1970s, when Dick...

PIERRE — For the past decade, state government carried tens of millions of dollars on the books year after year waiting for companies to come looking for tax refunds they were owed on big projects in South Dakota. This spring, that practice will end. The governor signed into...

Governor Releases Auditor General’s Report On Economic Development Office

RAPID CITY (AP) — A Sioux Falls attorney says the state Board of Regents wants to charge him more than $15,000 to look for documents related to the federal EB-5 investment-for-green-cards program. Steven Sandven tells the Rapid City Journal that the state has already charged...

The Governor's Office of Economic Development's EB-5 report to the federal government is now on the state government's website.

Rep. Ryan Maher, R-Isabel said the testimony was "a perfect example" of what happens when someone tries to scale back a government program.

By Dirk Lammers SIOUX FALLS — The U.S.

By Chet Brokaw PIERRE (AP) — The South Dakota House called for legislative hearings on Tuesday to investigate the state's economic development agency, including its involvement in issues related to the financing of a failed beef packing plant. Representatives voted 51-18...

PIERRE -- A state senator wants to reduce the amount of money being taken from South Dakota businesses to pay for the governor's Future Fund grants. Sen. Ryan Maher, R-Isabel, said he is trying to offset increases that happened in recent years. State records indicate the amount received...