Legislature

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- South Dakota is increasing funding for maintenance of state buildings, but not all legislators agree with the move. Lawmakers dedicated $4.7 million toward state building maintenance this year, a big increase from annual budgets that used to be about $1 million...

PIERRE (AP) -- A South Dakota commission has delayed a vote on rules for training teachers, other staff or volunteers to be designated as armed sentinels to provide security in school districts. The Law Enforcement Officers Standards and Training Commission originally planned to...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- Three state lawmakers have returned to South Dakota after meeting with business and government leaders from the African country of Morocco. KELO television reports that Sen. Jason Frerichs and Reps. David Lust and Bernie Hunhoff went on the trip funded by the...

PIERRE (AP) -- As a University of South Dakota law student, Sarah Larson didn't expect to be practicing in the small town of Gettysburg. But her future husband, Michael.

PIERRE -- The package approved by the Legislature of salary increases, pay adjustments and extra funding to cover a large shortfall in the self-insurance coverage for state government employees will cost in the neighborhood of $47.4 million for the fiscal year that began Monday. ...

PIERRE -- South Dakota school districts can arm teachers, other staff or volunteers with guns under a new state law taking effect today, but officials say they know of no school that has taken formal steps to designate so-called sentinels to beef up security in school buildings. ...

PIERRE (AP) -- South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard has ordered flags at the Capitol lowered to half-staff Wednesday for the funeral of former state legislator Stanley A. Johnson of Mitchell. Johnson died Saturday at the age of 88. He served in the House of Representatives from 1968...

PIERRE (AP) -- Former South Dakota legislator Stanley A. Johnson has died. He was 88. Gov. Dennis Daugaard says Johnson, of Mitchell, died Saturday at a Tyndall nursing home. Johnson served in the House of Representatives from 1968 to 1977. Gov. Nils Boe appointed Johnson...

PIERRE -- Later this week, the state Board of Regents will discuss whether to ask the Legislature next year for a freeze on tuition and fees for state university students. The regents, whose members govern South Dakota's public universities, have set aside a full day for informal...